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Today's topics:

AI monitoring in healthcare - Kaiser Permanente nurses say AI monitoring and call-time pressure are affecting empathy, triage, and patient safety. Keywords: healthcare AI, workplace surveillance, nurses, empathy scoring, labor dispute.

Engineers push back on AI - A widely shared essay on AI-generated 'slop' captures growing frustration inside software engineering, while researchers and economists continue warning about job displacement and degraded quality. Keywords: AI backlash, software engineering, automation, labor, critical thinking.

Replit’s self-driving company experiment - Replit says AI agents now handle large amounts of routine work across engineering, support, sales, and analysis. Keywords: AI agents, automation, productivity, software development, future of work.

Fireworks rides open-model demand - Fireworks raised fresh funding at a huge valuation as companies look for cheaper ways to run and customize open-weight AI models. Keywords: Fireworks, AI cloud, open models, GPUs, enterprise AI spend.

Model race gets more specialized - Kimi’s giant new open model, Google’s Gemini delay, OpenAI’s Codex variants, and new routing ideas all point to a market moving beyond one-model-fits-all AI. Keywords: Kimi K3, Gemini 3.5 Pro, Codex, model routing, specialized AI.

Reliability tools for AI workflows - Temporal, Anthropic, and Tencent researchers all highlighted a similar theme: AI systems need stronger orchestration, validation, and behavior mapping to stay dependable at scale. Keywords: Temporal, Claude Code, agent harnesses, reliability, workflow automation.

Google deepens Gemini research tools - Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and adding stronger analysis features, showing how AI research tools are becoming more integrated and action-oriented. Keywords: Gemini Notebook, NotebookLM, Google AI, research assistant, code execution.