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OpenAI has made ChatGPT Health available to all US users, allowing people to connect their medical records from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal. OpenAI's vice president of health product claimed the models are "now capable of reasoning at levels that are better than clinician level." The product adds extra encryption and data isolation layers designed specifically for health data. The launch raises legitimate questions about privacy, accuracy, and liability in medical AI, but also opens the door for AI-assisted health management at consumer scale.

GitHub's Dependabot now imposes a default three-day cooldown before opening version update pull requests. The change gives maintainers and security researchers time to address findings in a release before it gets pulled into your codebase. It is a practical fix for the race condition between releases and vulnerability disclosures, reducing the window where a fresh version could introduce unpatched issues. Teams managing CI/CD dependency workflows should account for the delay in their update cadence.

Codeberg has adopted two new policies: it will not allow hosted projects to be used for training LLMs, and it bans hosting LLM-generated software on its platform. The move is controversial, but the policy is clear: "sharing the result of a prompt and calling it 'libre software' does not make the world a better place." Codeberg is the first major forge to take such an explicit stand, and the policy will force hard conversations about what FLOSS means when machines write the code.

An updated US government advisory warns that Iran-linked hackers are exploiting systems used by water and energy providers, with active disruptions reported. The advisory details ongoing activity targeting operational technology, underscoring that critical infrastructure remains a prime target for state-sponsored cyber operations. The warning follows similar advisories about Russian and Chinese state-backed activity and reinforces that OT and ICS security is not optional for essential service providers anywhere, including in Africa where similar infrastructure is increasingly connected.

US startup founders are urging the Trump administration not to block Chinese open-weight AI models, arguing that restricting access would harm the domestic AI ecosystem. The Politico report highlights a split between security hawks who want to contain Chinese AI and startups that rely on open-weight models for building products. The outcome will shape what models are available to developers globally, including in markets like Kenya where open-weight models power most local AI work.

A former Detroit auto executive said his jaw dropped when he saw how much pricier an equivalent non-Chinese ADAS system would cost, as the US moves to restrict Chinese technology in vehicles. The ban threatens to push new car prices even higher at a time when affordability is already stretched. For import-dependent markets like Kenya, any upward price pressure on new cars cascades directly into used-car values and availability. The story underscores how geopolitical tensions are reshaping the practical economics of car ownership.

Tesla's paid robotaxi miles fell 36% in the second quarter, according to the company's own figures, despite expanding to new cities. Electrek noted that growth has essentially flatlined when broken into quarterly increments, with roughly the same 900,000 paid miles added in Q2 as in Q1. The numbers suggest that expanding coverage area without improving reliability or dispatch density does not automatically drive usage. It is a hard reality check for the autonomy-valuation thesis that props up Tesla's market cap.