Bloomberg reports Apple achieved major breakthroughs in a secret project to develop a continuous blood glucose monitoring system and now believes it could eventually bring glucose monitoring to market. Apple's system - more than 12 years in the making - is now considered to be at a proof-of-concept stage. To us this builds on previous comments from CEO Tim Cook that Apple has a long-term opportunity in consumer health, but as we can see there is more road to go until a commercial product is had. Read More...
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For tech giants, AI like Bing and Bard poses billion-dollar search problem
As Alphabet Inc looks past a chatbot flub that helped erase $100 billion from its market value, another challenge is emerging from its efforts to add generative artificial intelligence to its popular Google Search: the cost. Executives across the technology sector are talking about how to operate AI like ChatGPT while accounting for the high expense. The wildly popular chatbot from OpenAI, which can draft prose and answer search queries, has “eye-watering” computing costs of a couple or more cents per conversation, the startup’s Chief Executive Sam Altman has said on Twitter.
