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Google reportedly told employees they must allow a third-party AI healthcare tool to access their data to receive health benefits, but quickly backtracked after sparking employee dissatisfaction. Google Employees Must Share Basic Data to Use AI Benefits Tool Google asked its U.S.-based employees seeking health benefits through its parent company, Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG), to allow access to AI-powered tools …

Government economic data was in trouble. Then came the shutdown.  Politico The government isn’t releasing economic data. Private firms are stepping in.  The Washington Post Podcast: Why This US Government Shutdown Is Different  Bloomberg.com AP reader question: How might the federal shutdown affect the economy?  WTOP Will the federal government shutdown last long enough to hurt the U.S. economy?  USA Today Source link

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed a bill which requires web browsers to make it easier for Californians to opt-out of allowing third parties to sell their data. The California Consumer Privacy Act, signed in 2018, gave Californians the right to send opt-out signals, but major browsers have not had to make opt-outs simple to use. The bill signed …

The government isn’t releasing economic data. Private firms are stepping in.  The Washington Post Podcast: Why This US Government Shutdown Is Different  Bloomberg.com Will the federal government shutdown last long enough to hurt the U.S. economy?  USA Today Shutdown costing US economy about $15B a week: Hassett  The Hill US government shutdown: How it affects key economic data publishing  Reuters Source link

MetaGraph indexes and vast archives of DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. Scientists can search the archives and trace biological contexts in big data.Credit: Andrew Brookes/Connect Images/Science Photo Library The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature1, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories. “It’s a huge …

When Rumala Sheikhani started accounting on shows like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, she was processing extras’ paperwork — the timecards, or vouchers, for daily job bookings — by manually calculating payouts in Excel spreadsheets. “You have 500 people showing up to set for one day and leaving, so it’s really hard to keep track of their paperwork and make …

Bond Traders See Data Whirlwind Shattering Shutdown-Induced Calm  Bloomberg.com US government shutdown: How it affects key economic data publishing  Reuters Shutdown costing US economy about $15B a week: Hassett  The Hill White House warns of economic spillover effect of government shutdown  Federal News Network Will the federal government shutdown last long enough to hurt the U.S. economy?  USA Today Source link

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025  Hacker News Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says  Fortune The AI Spending Boom Is Massive But Not Unprecedented  Bloomberg.com America is now one big bet on AI  Financial Times The Entire Economy Now Depends on the AI Industry Not Fumbling  futurism.com Source …

U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was almost entirely driven by investment in data centers and information processing technology, according to Harvard economist Jason Furman. Excluding these technology-related categories, Furman calculated in a Sept. 27 post on X.com GDP growth would have been just 0.1% on an annualized basis, a near standstill that underlines the increasingly pivotal …

Internal Oracle Data Show Financial Challenge of Renting Out Nvidia Chips  The Information Oracle stock slips 5% on report company is seeing thin cloud margins from Nvidia chips  CNBC Oracle stock falls after report reveals thin margins in AI cloud business  Investing.com Oracle tumbles after report that it’s lost nearly $100 million from renting out access to Nvidia’s Blackwell chips  Sherwood News Oracle Sinks …