AI
GPT-5.5 Turns AI From Advisor to Operator
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 release is less about a smarter chatbot than a more capable work agent: coding, knowledge work, healthcare, and cybersecurity all move closer to governed delegation.
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AI
Google's $40B Anthropic Deal: $10B Now, $30B on Milestones
Google is putting $10 billion into Anthropic now and another $30 billion if performance targets land, at a $350 billion valuation unchanged since February. The compute loop is the point.
Technology
iOS 26.4.2: Closing the Notification Leak the FBI Exploited
Apple's April 22 patch fixes a single CVE — but it's the one 404 Media reported the FBI was using to pull deleted Signal messages out of the iPhone's notification database.
Technology
Meta Cuts 8,000 Jobs as AI Spending Surges
Meta will cut 8,000 jobs May 20 while pouring tens of billions more into AI. The 'AI replaced them' headline is neater than what the company actually said.
Healthcare IT
ChatGPT for Clinicians Is OpenAI's Point-of-Care Play
OpenAI's new clinician-only workspace is less about replacing doctors than owning evidence review, documentation, and prior auth at the point of care. The opportunity is real. So are the governance boundaries.
AI
ChatGPT in CarPlay, Ten Months After I Asked
I emailed OpenAI a feature request in June 2025. This morning, on my drive to work, I used it.
Education
Speedrunning a Bachelor's: Affordable Access or Diluted Diploma?
A North Carolina HR executive earned a bachelor's in three months and a master's in five weeks at UMaine Presque Isle's YourPace program. Accreditors are raising eyebrows. For the 43 million Americans with unfinished college credits, the math still looks pretty good.
AI
NSA Is Using Anthropic's Mythos Despite the Pentagon Blacklist
Axios reports the NSA is using Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model — the one Anthropic says can find zero-days autonomously — despite the Pentagon formally labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk. Here's what Mythos is, who else has access, and why the operational need is winning.
Technology
Microsoft Ships OOB Fix After April Patch Breaks Domain Controllers
Microsoft released emergency out-of-band updates for every supported Windows Server version after April's Patch Tuesday put domain controllers into LSASS-crash restart loops. Here's what broke, which KBs fix it, and who actually needs to act.
Healthcare IT
Your PACS Should Handle 1,000 Prior Exams
A PACS application froze on a patient with 90 prior exams this morning. I've seen patients with over 100. Vendors need to design and test against 1,000 priors, not 10.