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Most of the deals, however, don’t affect what people with private insurance or Medicare pay for the drugs. People with Medicaid — who typically have minimal or no copays for prescriptions — already pay very little.

“Generally speaking, most people with insurance coverage will continue to be better off using their insurance to obtain medications rather than purchasing through the TrumpRx direct-to-consumer portal,” said Juliette Cubanski, deputy director of the program on Medicare Policy at KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group.

The website asks customers to confirm that they are not enrolled in “any government, state, or federally funded medical or prescription benefit programs.” Those with both commercial and government-funded plans are considered to be on government insurance and are not permitted to participate in TrumpRx.

The US has one of the most expensive health systems in the world, with spending on health care estimated to reach $5.9tn (£4.3tn) in 2026, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. But despite spending twice as much per capita on healthcare compared with wealthy nations of a similar size, the US has a lower life expectancy than those other nations, according to health research nonprofit KFF.

Large publicly-traded health companies have tripled their profits over the last two decades, paying out shareholders over $2.6tn from 2001 to 2022, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "We are the only major [health] system in the world that allows the free market to run loose," said John McDonough, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health professor.

Roughly one in five Americans covered by private health insurance reported their provider refused to pay for care recommended by a doctor in 2023, according to a survey by KFF.

The number of overlapping health care systems in the US - Medicare, Medicaid, the marketplace, employer-sponsored insurance and veteran's health, among others - creates a confusing and sometimes wasteful system, said McDonough. "We have so many, each of them with their own set of rules, their own system, their own bureaucracy," he said. "We really do need some system consolidation."

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Phoenix can be deployed on Kubernetes with PostgreSQL using kustomize.

Octopus takes over where your CI server ends, modelling the entire release orchestration process of software. This includes:

Release versioning
Environment promotion (beyond simple dev/test/prod workflows)
Deployment automation
Progressive software delivery (rolling deployments, blue/green, canary)
Configuration management
Approvals & ITSM integration
Deployment freezes
Coordinating deployments across projects and their dependencies

Decoupling the CI platform from the CD platform allows teams to bring their favorite CI tool - and most organizations have more than one - while we focus on giving you the most powerful best-of-breed CD capabilities. Octopus integrates with popular CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or TeamCity, letting them do what they do best - the CI part of the feedback loop. Octopus then takes over “artifact-forward”, and handles the release and deployment aspects of CD in advanced ways that no CI/CD tool can.

2010 - Dec 2025

The job openings rate, at 3.9 percent, changed little over the month. The number of job openings decreased in professional and business services (-257,000), retail trade (-195,000), and finance and insurance (-120,000). (See table 1.)

The number of job openings for November was revised down by 218,000 to 6.9 million, the number of hires was revised up by 6,000 to 5.1 million

Cline is an open source AI coding agent that brings frontier AI models directly to your IDE. Unlike autocomplete tools, Cline is a true coding agent that can understand entire codebases, plan complex changes, and execute multi-step tasks.

One of Deepgram’s goals for the upcoming year is to pass the Audio Turing Test, which assesses how realistic and human-like AI-generated audio sounds.

Voxtral Realtime - A 4 billion parameter model aimed at live transcription, achieving “state of the art” transcription with 480ms latency across 13 languages. It can be configurable down to sub-200ms latency.

Performance on the FLEURS benchmark shows that Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 performs competitively against models from Gemini and OpenAI, with the lowest diarization error rate.

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But including ads in conversations with Claude would be incompatible with what we want Claude to be: a genuinely helpful assistant for work and for deep thinking.

We want Claude to act unambiguously in our users’ interests. So we’ve made a choice: Claude will remain ad-free. Our users won’t see “sponsored” links adjacent to their conversations with Claude; nor will Claude’s responses be influenced by advertisers or include third-party product placements our users did not ask for.

We still have much to learn about the impact of AI models on the people who use them. Early research suggests both benefits—like people finding support they couldn’t access elsewhere—and risks, including the potential for models to reinforce harmful beliefs in vulnerable users. Introducing advertising incentives at this stage would add another level of complexity. Our understanding of how models translate the goals we set them into specific behaviors is still developing; an ad-based system could therefore have unpredictable results.

Our experience of using the internet has made it easy to assume that advertising on the products we use is inevitable. But open a notebook, pick up a well-crafted tool, or stand in front of a clean chalkboard, and there are no ads in sight.

We think Claude should work the same way.

Manus is the action engine that goes beyond answers to execute tasks, automate workflows, and extend your human reach.

Write the built‑in prompt to the project default path:

GEMINI_WRITE_SYSTEM_MD=1 gemini

Write the built‑in prompt to the project default path:

GEMINI_WRITE_SYSTEM_MD=1 gemini

A2A's Focus: Enabling agents to collaborate within their native modalities, allowing them to communicate as agents (or as users) rather than being constrained to tool-like interactions. This enables complex, multi-turn interactions where agents reason, plan, and delegate tasks to other agents. For example, this facilitates multi-turn interactions, such as those involving negotiation or clarification when placing an order.

The MCP registry provides MCP clients with a list of MCP servers, like an app store for MCP servers.

A "marketplace" of sorts but no market ($). Curated by model context protocol folks.

OpenAI’s rivals are cutting into ChatGPT’s lead. The top chatbot’s market share fell from 69.1% to 45.3% between January 2025 and January 2026 among daily U.S. users of its mobile app. Gemini, in the same time period, rose from 14.7% to 25.1% and Grok rose from 1.6% to 15.2%.

On desktop and mobile web, a similar pattern appears, according to analytics firm Similarweb. Visits to ChatGPT went from 3.8 billion to 5.7 billion between January 2025 and January 2026, a 50% increase, while visits to Gemini went from 267.7 million to 2 billion, a 647% increase. ChatGPT is still far and away the leader in visits, but it has company in the race now.

Those early adopters’ enthusiasm has propelled generative AI forward in the years after ChatGPT’s release, but there is plenty of room to grow. Most devices Apptopia measured never use chatbots, so the race is far from settled as the AI apps fight for share.

And finally, pure user numbers don’t tell the full story, since users spend different amounts of time with each chatbot on average. Even though Anthropic’s Claude doesn’t have close to as many users as ChatGPT or Gemini, the time people spend with it has surged from about ten minutes daily in June 2025 to more than thirty minutes today.

FurMark 2 is the successor of the venerable FurMark 1 and is a very intensive GPU stress test on Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) and Linux (32-bit and 64-bit) platforms. It's also a quick OpenGL and Vulkan graphics benchmark with online scores. FurMark 2 has an improved command line support and is built with GeeXLab.