Google - MedGemma Multimodal AI Model with Open Weights Revolutionizes EHR
[Tech]
2025/07/10 09:07
Google has released the MedGemma multimodal AI model with open weights, designed to analyze longitudinal electronic health record (EHR) data, medical text, and various medical imaging modalities such as radiology, dermatology, pathology, and ophthalmology.MedGemma enables healthcare organizations and AI developers to leverage cutting-edge AI for extracting insights across structured and unstruc...
(Paper) Where Has Global Warming Accelerated Fastest ?
[Tech]
2025/07/10 09:06
A report released today by the World Meteorological Organization shows that temperature warming in Asia has increased fast over the past decades. In the years between 1991 and 2024, the continent has been warming at a rate of 0.45 Celcius per decade. This is more than double the rate the continent experienced between 1961 and 1990 and almost double the current global average.Looking at the 1991...
YC-Backed ZeroEntropy Secures $4.2M to Reinvent AI Search Layers
[Investing]
2025/07/10 09:05
As generative AI reshapes industries, one of its most important yet invisible challenges is retrieval, the process of fetching the right data with relevant context from messy knowledge bases. Large language models (LLMs) are only as accurate as the information they can retrieve.That’s where ZeroEntropy wants to make its mark. The San Francisco-based startup, co-founded by CEO Ghita Houir Alami...
Microsoft Racks Up Over $500 Million in AI Savings While Slashing Jobs
[Consumer]
2025/07/10 09:04
Microsoft (MSFT.O) saved more than $500 million in its call centers alone last year by using artificial intelligence, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.The tech giant last week announced plans to lay off nearly 4% of its workforce as it looks to rein in costs amid hefty investments in AI infrastructure. In May, the company had announced layoffs affecting around 6,000 workers.AI tools were he...
A Simple Shape Turned The Coca-Cola Logo Into A Timeless Icon
[Design]
2025/07/10 09:03
It all ties back to one design tweak from 1969. Today, Coca-Cola has one of the most iconic brand identities in the world—so iconic, in fact, that one 2010s study found that “Coca‑Cola” is the second‑most widely understood term in the world after the word “okay.” But the brand’s modern global footprint might look entirely different if it weren’t for one major design overhaul in 1969 ca...
(PDF) BCG - Unpacking The $15 Trillion Opportunity in Leisure Travel
[Business]
2025/07/09 09:10
Travel companies should seek ways to attract local and regional tourists as well as international visitors and prepare for a rapidly evolving customer base.More and more visitors are coming from emerging markets.Millennials and Gen-Zers are the most influential travelers globally. Relative to older generations, they are planning more trips.Multigenerational and blended travel is on the rise bec...
Sperm Freezing Is a New Hot Market for Startups
[Business]
2025/07/09 09:09
Last summer, Alexander McKinnon was always feeling tired. “I would lie on the couch at 2 in the afternoon and fall asleep,” he says. The founder of a biotech startup in Boston, he initially thought it was the byproduct of a demanding job, but as time passed, his exhaustion didn’t subside. By September his doctor had run a blood test and found his “super fatigue” was tied to low levels of t...
AI Shopping Is Here. Will Retailers Get Left Behind ?
[Business]
2025/07/09 09:08
AI doesn’t see the internet the same way human shoppers do, meaning retailers need to adapt as more consumers turn to AI to find products or even make purchases.Businesses from Walmart to luxury fashion labels are reconsidering everything from their web design to online advertising as they try to catch the eye of AI and not just humans.Many fashion e-commerce sites contain elements that can tr...
Aging Populations
[Consumer]
2025/07/09 09:07
One of the key challenges the world is facing in the coming decades is the gradual and largely irreversible shift towards older populations. According to the United Nations Population Division, the number of people aged 65 and older, currently estimated at 857 million, is expected to nearly double over the next two and a half decades, reaching 1.58 billion in 2050. The share of the global popul...