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Microsoft is quietly sharpening its elbows in the AI market. According to Bloomberg, the company is coaching its sales teams to go head to head with OpenAI and Anthropic, arguing that bundling the full stack makes Microsoft cheaper and more capable than rivals selling individual pieces. Claude, specifically, is being called out as slower and less accurate — a sign that the competition at the enterprise level is getting pointed.
On a quieter but equally telling note, one developer's experience modernizing a Java one point five codebase into something that runs on current hardware offers a useful lesson about AI-assisted coding. Nik Malykhin found that LLMs gave confident but ultimately wrong answers until he grounded the process in actual evidence from the codebase itself. The takeaway is that these tools work best as a partner to careful archaeology, not a shortcut around it.
And in the world of wearables, a company called Vital Signals is putting continuous blood pressure monitoring into a ring. That is a meaningful step, because blood pressure has long resisted the always-on sensor treatment that heart rate and oxygen saturation now take for granted. Whether the algorithmic approach holds up clinically remains to be seen, but the ambition is real.
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