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Google made a significant move at its Made by Google two thousand twenty six event, unveiling insulin resistance tracking on the Pixel Watch five. For the first time, users may be able to monitor how their body responds to food and exercise without a needle or a continuous glucose monitor attached to their skin. That is a genuine health milestone, though questions about accuracy and medical oversight are very much part of this conversation.
Meanwhile, Anthropic is drawing fire from some Claude users who are upset that the AI company's new watermarking system can detect AI-generated text, including work people were quietly passing off as their own at jobs and in classrooms. The backlash is revealing in its honesty. The frustration is less about privacy and more about accountability catching up to a workaround people had grown comfortable with.
And in crypto infrastructure, Zerohash, the company that handles digital asset plumbing for Morgan Stanley's E-Trade platform, was turned away in its bid to become a federally chartered trust bank. The firm says it plans to refile, but the rejection signals that regulators are still not ready to hand traditional banking credentials to crypto-native firms, even ones with major Wall Street backing.
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