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Google's Gemini project is hitting turbulence, according to a new Los Angeles Times report. Coding benchmarks are falling short, internal teams are clashing, and engineers are growing frustrated. It's a reminder that building frontier AI isn't just a compute problem — it's a deeply human one, and organizational friction can be just as costly as a bad model.
On a different front, the FDA has approved the first oral PCSK9 inhibitor for lowering LDL cholesterol in adults. That's significant because previous PCSK9 drugs required injections, which limits who actually takes them. A pill changes the compliance equation entirely, and for patients with stubborn cholesterol, this could be a meaningful shift in how cardiovascular risk gets managed day to day.
And rounding out today's digest, a calculus course integrating large language models is generating genuine discussion on Hacker News. The project at academa dot ai lets students work through multivariable calculus with an AI tutor embedded directly in the curriculum. Whether that deepens understanding or papers over gaps in it is the question educators are quietly wrestling with.
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