A doctor introduced an AI scribe during a patient intake appointment, which is a device with a microphone and screen that transcribes and condenses everything said during the meeting into a visit report. This AI scribe is designed to save the doctor time on paperwork and is replacing the traditional role of human scribes who used to accompany doctors and write down patient information.
Apple’s Vision Pro headset is now for sale in stores. Will it live up to the hype? Kevin Roose and Casey Newton tried it out to see. Then, in a high-profile congressional hearing on child safety and social media, Mark Zuckerberg, the Meta chief executive, made an apology to families of victims of online child abuse. Is new legislation on the horizon? And finally, what the collapse of Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company, means for the future of self-driving cars.
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