China's Moonshot AI startup has released the world's largest open-source AI model, directly competing with Anthropic and OpenAI offerings and sending AI and semiconductor stocks sliding on release day. The EU has formally ordered Google to share search data with competing providers and open Android to rival AI assistants. A brain implant has restored sensation and motor function in a paralyzed man's hand, with movement persisting after stimulation was switched off. These three stories alone justify reading today's full digest.
On the misinformation front: there is no clinical test for perimenopause, despite what supplement marketers and social media influencers claim. Jessica Hamzelou's piece in MIT Technology Review traces how a legitimate medical conversation has been colonized by unproven treatments and hormone narratives that do not hold up to scrutiny. The full article is worth reading not for its conclusion but for the specific breakdown of what the evidence actually supports.
Elsewhere in today's digest: Trump Media is selling API access to the president's social posts before they hit the public feed, raising direct profit conflicts. Period trackers are leaking health data in ways new research is only beginning to map. A Texas fatal Tesla crash investigation found the driver manually overrode Full Self-Driving by flooring the accelerator to 100 percent. And astronomers have detected an atmosphere on a nearby Earth-like exoplanet, the first potentially habitable world confirmed to have one.
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