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In today’s Daily Report:
📦 Is OpenAI’s AI-Powered Gadget a “Lickable” Pen?
💤 Predicting 130 Diseases From One Night’s Sleep
📍AI Tier Tracker
🛠Trending Tools
🥪Brief Bites
💰Funding Frontlines
💼Who’s Hiring?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
OPENAI
📦 Is OpenAI’s AI-Powered Gadget a “Lickable” Pen?
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OpenAI reportedly developed a prototype of their secretive AI-powered gadget, internally codenamed “Gumdrop.”
Key Details:
Earlier last year, OpenAI acquired io Products, Inc. for nearly $6.5 billion, gaining legendary Apple designer Jony Ive and his hand-picked collective of approximately 55 designers, architects, and engineers.
“Gumdrop” is reportedly an AI-powered pen that transcribes handwritten notes directly into ChatGPT, converting doodles and sketches into machine-readable digital records.
It’s allegedly paired with a “to-go” audio device that can hear and speak naturally and contextually to anticipate your needs. According to The Information, OpenAI’s building a new audio model architecture to achieve more natural speech patterns with faster response times for this exact purpose.
Why It’s Important:
For the past two decades, our digital lives have been dominated by typing, tapping, and touching. Now, the hands-free era is emerging as speech recognition improves and LLMs make talking to technology feel realistic.
AI RESEARCH
💤 Predicting 130 Diseases From One Night’s Sleep
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Stanford Medicine recently developed “SleepFM,” a multimodal sleep foundation model that accurately predicts 130 health conditions, including heart failure and breast cancer, from one night’s sleep.
Key Details:
It was trained on over 585,000 hours of PSG recordings from approximately 65,000 participants, analyzing everything from heart rhythms to breathing behaviors and muscle movements.
To help this multimodal sleep foundation model learn how these different “languages” relate to each other, they leveraged LOO-CL: a new training technique that hides one sleep signal and challenges “SleepFM” to reconstruct it based on the other sleep signals. “It’s essentially learning the language of sleep,” explained James Zou, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical data science.
Why It’s Important:
It predicted Parkinson’s with 89% accuracy, Dementia with 85% accuracy, Heart Failure with 80%, Stroke with 79% accuracy, and Mortality Risk with 84% accuracy.
By combining multiple sleep signals, this multimodal sleep foundation model can observe how the brain, heart, and muscles interact during one night’s sleep, providing a much richer picture of overall health than any one sleep signal could.
THE STOCK MARKET
📍AI Tier Tracker
TIER 0: ENERGY American Superconductor Corp. |
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TIER 1: SILICON Micron Technology, Inc. |
TIER 2: DATA CENTERS Equinix, Inc. |
TIER 3: AI MODELS Intuit Inc. |
TIER 4: SOFTWARE STACK Elastic N.V. |
TIER 5: AI AGENTS Workday, Inc. |
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🥪BRIEF BITES
AMD CEO Lisa Su predicts “AI EVERYWHERE,” expecting more than 5 billion active AI users worldwide within the next five years.
Skylight unveiled “Calendar 2,” an AI-powered digital calendar that helps families stay organized with shared to-do lists and meal planning suggestions.
Google and Character.AI negotiate “AI-Related Harm,” marking the first major legal settlement over compensating families of teens who committed suicide.
OpenAI introduced “ChatGPT Health,” which securely brings your health information and ChatGPT’s intelligence together to help you feel more confident about navigating your wellness.
💰FUNDING FRONTLINES
Oasys Health landed a $4.6M Seed Round for AI-native behavioral health tech.
Spiro Medical closed a $67M Series A for AI-based asthma treatment.
Anthropic’s reportedly raising a $10B Series G at a $350B valuation.
💼WHO’S HIRING?
📒FINAL NOTE
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