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AI Restores Speech, Big Pharma’s Bill, Disney’s Rough Start, and the Heart's Power

AI Restores Speech, Big Pharma’s Bill, Disney’s Rough Start, and the Heart's Power

Nuggetz
November 03, 2024

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In this Nuggetz Capsule:

AI Giving Voice to the Voiceless
Big Pharma’s Ad Power
Disney's Failure
The Heart's Output
Resources
- Milestones

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[Health & Technology]

AI was used to help a paralyzed woman speak again, synthesizing her speech and facial expressions directly from her brain signals.

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How Artificial Intelligence Gave a Paralyzed Woman Her Voice Back

A brain implant and digital avatar allow a paralyzed stroke survivor to speak with for first time in 18 years with the help of artificial intelligence.

www.ucsf.edu/news/2023/08/425986/how-artificial-intelligence-gave-paralyzed-woman-her-voice-back

[Business & Health]

Big Pharma spends over $18 billion annually on ads—more than double the FDA’s $7 billion budget for FY 2024.

Big Picture:

With Big Pharma’s advertising spend more than doubling the FDA’s budget, the influence of marketing dollars on public perception and healthcare choices is significant. This spending power raises questions about how much our healthcare landscape is shaped by advertising versus regulation.

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Congress to Approve Fiscal Year 2024 Funding for Several Federal Agencies

[Business]

Walt Disney’s first company went bankrupt.

dive in👇

Walt Disney Bankruptcy

This document is an exhibit in bankruptcy case 4457, In the Matter of Laugh-O-Gram Films, Inc. Filed in 1923, this bankruptcy case marked the final demise of a small Kansas City animation studio. This exhibit is a mortgage of property from Laugh-O-Gram Films, Inc., including common office furniture, as well as equipment for making cartoons. The name of the president of the company appears at the bottom of the document: Walter E. Disney.

www.archives.gov/kansas-city/highlights/disney-bankruptcy

100 Years Ago: Walt Goes West | The Walt Disney Family Museum

It was late July 1923 and Walt Disney had failed. His Laugh-O-gram Films was headed for bankruptcy and, with little prospects left in Kansas City, Missouri, he was pulling up stakes. Hollywood was his destination. “Go west, young man, go west and grow up with the country,” the newspaperman Horace Greeley had written in 1865 (Walt would later quote this phrase to his friend Ub Iwerks, still back in Kansas City).

www.waltdisney.org/blog/100-years-ago-walt-goes-west

[Health & Wellness]