Taking the pulse on health tech investment in an uncertain market.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carrino.

Earlier this week marked 100 days of President Donald Trump's second term,

and we're checking in with various parts of the tech world to see how all the changes are affecting business.

On today's Marketplace Techbytes week in review, the State of health tech investment. Plus, a massive data leak put

California Blue Shield members' most sensitive medical details at risk. But first, Meta is launching

a dedicated AI app that could go head-to-head with the likes of ChatGPT. The announcement came

during a big week for Big Tech, with Meta and several other

companies reporting earnings. Meta also hosted an AI developers conference, it called LamaCon,

named for its large language models. To discuss all that, we're joined by Christina Farr,

managing director at Manat Health. META is getting very into the AI craze, as is every big tech company.

It's funny, every time I read about llamas these days, I think of llama needs a haircut,

which is the new fun children's book I have to read every single night.

But I was reading about this kind of new AI assistant, which is really fueled by

voice. You can talk to it. You can ask it about, you know, what you should do that day, the weather,

the traffic. And it just reminded me so much of that movie, her. It really feels like we're moving in that direction where we

wake up in the morning and we don't turn around and speak to our spouse. We talk to meta and the

AI assistant that it's building. It feels more like a companion than anything I've seen before.

That is interesting because one thing that sets meta apart from a lot of

the other sort of companies that are playing in the space is that it has, you know, this,

this deep history in social media. It has collected a lot of personal data about the, you know,

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