🤖 Germany Switches On Exascale Supercomputer Jupiter
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz just cut the ribbon on Jupiter - a massive new system built with Nvidia chips by Atos and ParTec. It’s officially Europe’s first exascale-class machine, ranking fourth worldwide, and is being pitched as a way to sharpen the EU’s edge in climate research, biotech, and maybe - just maybe - ease the bloc’s reliance on non-European tech stacks.
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🩺 AI Stethoscope Promises Faster Heart Checks (But Doctors Aren’t Convinced)
Researchers at Imperial College London have rolled out an AI-enabled stethoscope that can supposedly flag heart failure, valve disease, and atrial fibrillation in under 20 seconds. It was trained on data from over a million patients. The catch? High false positive rates, and surveys showed about 70% of clinicians gave up using it after a year. Experts say it’s a tool - not a substitute for actual doctors.
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⚠ NHS to the Public: “Don’t Use Chatbots as Your Therapist”
The NHS has put out a pretty blunt warning: AI chatbots like ChatGPT aren’t safe for mental health support. They can miss crises, misjudge harmful thoughts, and just aren’t designed to handle vulnerable patients. Even though around a third of UK 18–24-year-olds say they’d consider AI for therapy, officials are firm - qualified professionals are the only safe route here.
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💼 Rumor Mill: OpenAI Building a LinkedIn Rival
Word from Washington is that OpenAI wants to launch a job-matching platform with AI baked in, a kind of LinkedIn competitor. The platform would highlight AI skills and help connect talent with employers. They’re also lining up a big certification initiative - apparently Walmart’s in on it - aimed at training 10 million Americans in AI by 2030.
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🎨 Warner Bros. vs. Midjourney: The Superhero Clash
Warner Bros. has taken Midjourney to court, arguing the AI tool enables users to create images with its copyrighted characters (think Superman, Bugs Bunny, etc.). The case adds fuel to the already messy debate around copyright in the AI era.
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