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Why Google News Is Turning Us All Into Anxious Goldfish With Attention Spans of a Gnat Right, let’s have it out, shall we? I’m sitting here scrolling through Google News like some sort of digital archaeologist, digging through layers of catastrophe, celebrity gossip, and what appears to be seventeen different articles about a badger that got stuck in a Tesco, and I’ve had a proper realization: we’ve broken something fundamental about how humans are supposed to consume information, and nobody’s even pretending to fix it anymore. ...

Google is doing something unusual for a company that built its empire on algorithmic dominance: it’s signaling that winning healthcare AI requires playing nice with competitors. According to reporting from CNN Business, Google’s strategy for dominating medical diagnostics and patient care applications hinges less on crushing rivals and more on building an ecosystem where Apple, Microsoft, and other healthcare players have reasons to integrate Google’s AI tools rather than build their own. ...