🏥 Amazon enters healthcare AI race with 24/7 assistant 🏥
One Medical members get personalized medical guidance through AI

Amazon debuted Health AI for One Medical members, a 24/7 assistant that pulls from medical records, lab results, and medications to offer personalized health guidance directly in-app. The move positions Amazon squarely in the healthcare AI race alongside OpenAI's ChatGPT Health and Anthropic's Claude health integrations. The AI assistant leverages Amazon's massive healthcare infrastructure through One Medical's existing patient base to make medical information more accessible.

⚙️ Claude Code upgrades to Tasks system ⚙️
New system enables multi-session collaboration and dependency tracking

Anthropic upgraded Claude Code's Todos to a Tasks system designed for complex, multi-session projects. Tasks support dependencies, blockers, and cross-session collaboration stored in the file system, allowing multiple subagents or sessions to work on the same task list simultaneously. The upgrade responds to Opus 4.5's improved autonomous capabilities and reflects Claude's evolution toward handling longer, more sophisticated projects with coordination across context windows.

🤝 Google acquires Hume AI CEO 🤝
DeepMind acqui-hires emotional AI startup leadership

Google DeepMind hired Hume AI's CEO Alan Cowen and roughly seven engineers as part of a new licensing agreement, marking the latest acqui-hire move by the tech giant. Hume's emotionally intelligent voice tech will be integrated into Gemini, while the startup continues operating under new CEO Andrew Ettinger. The deal follows Google's $3B Character AI licensing play last year and mirrors similar moves by Microsoft and Meta in the AI talent race.

INTERESTING TO KNOW

💻 Salesforce deploys Cursor to 20K engineers 💻

Salesforce revealed that over 90% of its 20,000 engineers now use Cursor in daily workflows, improving development speed and code quality. The massive deployment helped power recent product releases like Agentforce and demonstrates that AI coding assistants have moved beyond experimentation to become core development tools at major tech companies.

🗣️ Alibaba open-sources Qwen3-TTS 🗣️

Alibaba's Qwen team open-sourced Qwen3-TTS, a series of speech generation models supporting voice cloning, voice design, and natural language-based voice control. The models support 10 mainstream languages including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian. Qwen3-TTS exhibits strong contextual understanding, adapting tone, rhythm, and emotional expression for ultra-high-quality human-like speech generation.