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Home Health Aides Will Get New Medical Insurance

Health-care workers walk across First Avenue outside Bellevue Hospital.

New York state will replace the company providing health insurance to hundreds of thousands of home care workers next year. The move comes after a series of New York Focus stories found that the company, called Leading Edge Administrators, routinely underpays doctors, bills patients for care it has promised to cover, attempts to cancel patients’ insurance without notice, pockets money that is meant […]

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Google adds new pinch and wrist gestures to the Pixel Watch 4 and says Watch 3 and Watch 4 will now use an on-device Gemma-based AI model for Smart Replies (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google adds new pinch and wrist gestures to the Pixel Watch 4 and says Watch 3 and Watch 4 will now use an on-device Gemma-based AI model for Smart Replies  —  After missing out on last month's Feature Drop, Google is rolling out a sizable Pixel Watch 4 update this December that adds one-handed gestures.

Both sides of the aisle hate the AI moratorium

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Somehow, this AI-generated McDonald’s ad about hating Christmas was a flop

If you're having a stressful holiday season, the answer is McDonald's - at least, that's what a now-removed AI-generated ad suggested, as reported by Futurism. Set to a song calling holiday season "the most terrible time of the year," the ad shows AI-generated people falling victim to a slew of wintery woes, including family dinners, […]

Report: SpaceX is expected to make around $15B in revenue in 2025, increasing to between $22B and $24B in 2026, with the majority coming from Starlink (Juby Babu/Reuters)

Juby Babu / Reuters:
Report: SpaceX is expected to make around $15B in revenue in 2025, increasing to between $22B and $24B in 2026, with the majority coming from Starlink  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering that would seek to raise significantly more than $30 billion …