Google tests AI in real virtual care

Google puts medical AI on trial

This is Google leaving the lab.

Google Research and Included Health plan a nationwide randomized study testing conversational AI inside real virtual care visits, pending IRB approval. It follows earlier work on AMIE that ran in simulations, actor-based exams, and one single-center safety study tied to interruption rates.

What matters is not the model claims but the study design, because randomized, consented trials are how medicine decides what counts. Google is signaling it wants this AI judged by the same rules as clinical workflows people already trust, not by demos watched on a bright laptop at 10 p.m.

If the results hold, this sets a reference point other health AI teams will be measured against. It also raises pressure on regulators and providers to treat conversational AI like an intervention, not a feature.

This feels overdue. The open question is how much of real care survives contact with scale.

Datavault leans into meme mechanics

This reads less like finance and more like paperwork.

Datavault AI says it will distribute Dream Bowl Meme Coin II to shareholders at a ratio of one token per 60 shares, with a February 21 target date. Holders must open a Datavault wallet, opt in, and accept that the board can still cancel the distribution and that the token may have no value.

The company is working very hard to say this is not an investment while still tying it directly to stock ownership and future trading on its own exchange. That tension matters, because the more steps, disclaimers, and opt-ins you add, the less this feels like a shareholder benefit and the more it feels like an experiment in attention.

The language is defensive for a reason. If this trades at all in Q2 on Datavault’s Information Data Exchange, other microcaps will notice. Regulators probably will too, especially since this looks like a dividend that walks and talks like a token.

The open question is whether shareholders wanted a collectible or just clarity.

Intel enters the GPU fight

Intel finally said the word GPU.

At the Cisco AI Summit, CEO Lip-Bu Tan said Intel will start producing GPUs, a market dominated by Nvidia. The effort sits inside Intel’s data center group, with hires from Qualcomm and recent engineering leadership brought in since September.

This is a bigger shift than Intel wants to admit, especially after Tan said last year he would narrow focus on core businesses. GPUs are not a side bet right now, and entering this market late means Intel is chasing a lead Nvidia already turned into default infrastructure.

The timing feels defensive. If Intel follows through, customers may welcome another supplier in a market strained by demand and pricing. If it stalls, this becomes another signal that Intel’s turnaround is still searching for a center.

The real test is whether this becomes a product line or just a slide shown under bright conference lights.

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