TTA’s Summertime Wrap: Taking apart Humanity’s AI Doom; Oracle’s layoffs, financials, and House subpoenas; and how infrastructure health tech can’t get funding

It’s hard to believe that the last Alert was before Labor Day, and here we are staring at the chronological End of Summer, bracing for a cold winter again. The 25th anniversary of 9/11 (real doom) was followed by Humanity’s Rumored Doom in 10 years at the hands of AI. My essay takes it apart and puts it back together. (Pro Tip–trust no one). We also caught up with Oracle trumpeting its Q1, laying off another 3,000, and its two top execs subpoenaed by the House VA Committee. This week’s Perspectives is about how infrastructure tech needed by healthcare organizations can’t get arrested on funding, while whiz-bang consumer apps can.

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For Readers: Your Editor will be on a second publishing leave to 1-2 October. ‘Best Of’ Alerts will be out 1x weekly only on Fridays after this week till then. I’ll be resting up for what may prove to be an epic Q4!

Oracle’s continued restructuring cuts 3K more jobs, adds $700 million while revenue grows 30%; House VA Committee subpoenas Ellison, Sicilia 19-0 (The Oracle soap opera grinds on)

Perspectives: Digital Health Capital Keeps Rewarding What Patients See, Not What Keeps Companies Alive (Infrastructure tech can’t get funding)

AI’s hoofbeats as Horses, not Zebras: a Gimlety view of AI’s destructive capacity (updated) (P(doom) may be conquered by F(doom), or Why Worry?

Most recent headlines 

Silicon Valley Bank’s take on H1 investment: among the “have and have nots”, it was “the best half in years” for health tech

News roundup: Verma’s rumors, DEA’s new (?) telemedicine rule goes to OMB for review, Cityblock Health goes rural with Homeward buy, Scottish housing sensor tech could save millions–study

Revealed: Oracle’s extended VA EHRM contract increased by $17B as original ceiling reached this year; VA Indy EHR goes online

Must Reads

This Week’s Must Reads: how lack of focus dooms startup financing, Commure’s Sea of Red Flags Flapping, and what happens if OpenAI expires? (Doom…DOOM!)

Why Readers can be assured that TTA is 100% Written by Humans (A handy guide to detecting AI Copy Slop and why it’s not here)

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