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The company behind the Argus II retinal implant is heading back to Nasdaq via reverse merger with ClearOne https://insidebci.com/market/2026-07-02-vivani-cortigent-clearone-reverse-merger-nasdaq-visual-cortical-prosthesis/

The company behind the Argus II retinal implant is heading back to Nasdaq via reverse merger with ClearOne
Vivani Medical announced on 2 July 2026 an all-stock reverse-merger agreement to combine its Cortigent subsidiary with Nasdaq-listed ClearOne, forming Cortigent Holdings, Inc. under the expected ticker CRGT. Vivani will hold between 59.4 and 67.5 per cent of the combined company; the deal requires a concurrent 10 to 15 million dollar registered offering and is targeted to close in the third quarter of 2026.

Do People Follow AI Advice? Evidence from a Pension Portfolio Choice Experiment
Hongseok Choi, Jeongbin Kim, Matthew Kovach, Kyu-Min Lee, Euncheol Shin, Hector Tzavellas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11371 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11371 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11371
arXiv:2608.11371v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study how differences in AI-generated financial recommendations are transmitted into individual portfolio choices. In an experiment with 400 employed adults enrolled in workplace defined contribution pension plans in South Korea, participants allocate a hypothetical pension balance across eleven products and may revise it after receiving one of two fixed AI-generated recommendations. A $2 \times 2$ design randomizes recommendation content and whether the recommendation includes a short rationale. Approximately 37$\%$ of the experimentally induced difference between the aggressive and conservative recommendations passes through to final portfolios. This causal contrast changes expected portfolio return, volatility, allocations across risk grades, and the number of products held, but produces no detectable difference in computed Sharpe ratios. 81$\%$ of participants revise. Among revisers, 95$\%$ move toward the assigned recommendation and implement about half of the suggested adjustment. Rationales do not detectably alter pass-through. These results show that users partially and selectively transmit recommendation content into economically meaningful differences in risk exposure while retaining substantial weight on their initial choices.
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how social media fuels it,
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#FLOSS ecosystem.
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When we see the threat of big corporations (or just petty unimaginative people) stealing our work, what can we do, when collective action has been labelled as criminal activity, other than hide or risk the severe consequences of being combative?
#ai #generativeAI #fuck_ai