Walgreens closing remaining VillageMD clinics in Florida, continues cost-cutting. VillageMD, exiting Florida—one of largest markets—lacks doctors, patients in smaller clinics. Despite $5.2 billion investment, U.S. Healthcare struggles to profit. In cost-cutting, Walgreens shuts 60 VillageMD clinics, 450 retail locations; layoffs. Company's stock drops 41% since January 2023. Walgreens explores selling specialty pharmacy Shields Health Solutions. Leadership turnover and opioid epidemic liabilities add to woes.

Walgreens to close VillageMD clinics in Florida Healthcare Dive

Sen. Tom Cotton criticized Google's AI chatbot Gemini for not generating images of white people and dubbed it "racist, woke, Hamas-sympathizing". The chatbot's image generation paused after criticism of inaccurate historical images replacing white figures, such as the Founding Fathers, with people of other races. Google apologized for the inaccuracies and committed to improving the AI.

Sen. Tom Cotton torches Google AI system as 'racist, preposterously woke, Hamas-sympathizing' Fox News

Walked with Gary Marcus, AI critic, in Vancouver discussing AI state. Marcus, NYU professor, criticizes deep learning, AI exploitation, and copyright issues. Recent advancements include Google DeepMind's AI model, Gemini, and OpenAI's video model, Sora, both unimpressive to Marcus. He's written book, Taming Silicon Valley, arguing for AI regulation, societal involvement, and AI policy action. Later criticized Sora on Twitter for systemic glitches.

I went for a walk with Gary Marcus, AI’s loudest critic – MIT Technology Review Technology Review

Nvidia's AI chips power most tech giants, making its earnings an AI health indicator. The company's recent earnings report exceeds expectations, with a $22.1 billion quarterly revenue and 265% YoY increase. Now the third-most-valuable US public company, Nvidia plans to double the world’s data center infrastructure in five years. AI supercomputers likened to "AI generation factories" support the next industrial revolution. However, sales in China have significantly dropped due to US export restrictions and tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are developing their own AI chips.

Nvidia proves that corporate appetites for AI aren’t letting up Emerging Tech Brew