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ChatGPT reclaims 55.5% of chatbot web trafficSimilarweb reports ChatGPT's share of AI chatbot website traffic rose back to 55.5%. Year‑over‑year its lead fell from 73.3%, during which Gemini doubled its share and Claude grew nearly fivefold; mobile apps and desktop clients are excluded.
AI-designed drug rentosertib shows anti-aging markers in trialA Nature Biotechnology study reports that rentosertib, an AI‑designed drug by Insilico Medicine, may reverse markers of biological aging. Six independent aging clocks predicted treated patients were up to about six years biologically younger than the placebo group; the trial covered 42 patients and the drug has not been tested in healthy people.
ChatGPT wiped out Nairobi academic-writing industryThe New York Times reports ChatGPT wiped out Nairobi's industry of writing academic papers for foreign students; at its peak at least 40,000 people worked in the sector. Writer Teresios Bundi wrote over 2,500 papers across twelve years charging $40–$70 each; after ChatGPT launched in 2022 prices and orders collapsed and related gig work declined.
$3.2B AI data center fire exposes safety gapsA fire broke out in June at the unfinished Lake Mariner AI data center in Somerset, New York, where firefighters found no working alarm, no suppression system, and three dead hydrants. The $3.2 billion campus is owned and operated by TeraWulf, to be run by Fluidstack; Google holds warrants for a future 14% stake and Anthropic is among intended compute customers.
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