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A surgeon in the United Kingdom has successfully removed a brain tumor using live AI assistance, marking what appears to be a genuine milestone in operating room technology. The AI guided the procedure in real time, raising immediate questions about liability, training, and just how much we're prepared to let algorithms into the most consequential moments in medicine.
Shifting to the business of influence, Meta has settled a sweeping child safety lawsuit for nearly seventeen billion dollars, and the terms of that settlement are drawing serious scrutiny. Critics argue the deal effectively hands Meta the pen when it comes to writing kid safety standards across the entire social media industry, letting the platform most often accused of harm define the rules everyone else must follow.
And in the funding world, an AI assistant called Instinct is raising two hundred fifty million dollars in a Series B round, riding a wave of enthusiasm through Silicon Valley. The details remain thin, but the scale of the raise reflects just how aggressively investors are still chasing the next conversational AI that might actually stick with everyday users.
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