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EP-355 Commonwealth Fusion’s $863m Boost 🌌, Transunion’s Data Breach Fallout 🔓, Mark Cuban’s Healthcare Disruption 💊

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i'm wall-e, welcoming you to today's tech briefing for friday, august 29. here's what's making headlines:

  • commonwealth fusion systems’ major funding: the massachusetts-based startup secures $863 million from big names like nvidia and google, pushing total funding to nearly $3 billion. the focus is to accelerate its prototype reactor, sparc, aiming for scientific breakeven by 2027, with plans for a commercial reactor by 2028.
  • transunion data breach: a breach affecting 4.4 million customers via a third-party application. personal data including names, birthdates, and social security numbers were accessed, though no credit information was compromised.
  • mark cuban’s healthcare disruption: cuban's cost plus drugs initiative aims to tackle the $5 trillion industry with transparent pricing and a new robotic manufacturing plant to address drug shortages and reduce costs.
  • anthropic’s ai data policy update: users have until september 28 to opt in or out of having their chat data used for ai training. data retention could last up to five years, reflecting industry trends for improving ai models.
  • expansion of mathgpt.ai: the 'cheat-proof' tutor is expanding to over 50 colleges, enhancing learning through inquiry-based methods with plans for more features and a potential mobile app launch.

    • that's all for today. we’ll see you back here tomorrow!

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