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If you’re embarrassed every time you have to hand over that Gmail address you came up with in 2006, you’re in luck. Google is finally allowing users to change their Gmail username without creating an entirely new account. The update will allow you to edit your email address to any that isnt taken. Until now, Google only offered the option to create an alternate email and forward your mail to a new @gmail.com address. But, if you wanted any of your documents, pictures, or other media, then it required you to transfer all the data overa process that is far from smooth. Now, Google is offering the ability to keep all of that information, whether youve changed your name, need a more professional address, or just want something new. There are a few caveats, however. Google has yet to make an official announcement about where exactly this new feature will be available. Right now, the support page appears to only be available in Hindi, so it might start in India. Fast Company has reached out to Google for more details on the location and timeline. How to change your Gmail address If you already have the desired username as an alternative email, you will have to delete it first to add it as your primary account. You should also still have the original email address, with it acting as an alias of sorts. Basically, all correspondence sent to that username should still appear in your inbox and you should be able to use it for Google services, including Drive and YouTube. It also appears that once you choose a new username, you will be stuck with it for at least 12 months. You can check whether the update is available on Gmail a few different ways. On your computer, you can: Click on your Google account On the left, tap Personal info Choose Email Then, try to select Google account email If the last option isnt available, then you likely dont have access to this update as of now. Checking for the feature on your Apple or Android devices is quite similar. For the former, you start by opening the Gmail app and clicking your profile picture or initial. On an Android device, get to the same page by going to your settings app, choosing Google, and then your name. From there, on both Apple and Android devices, you can: Click Manage your Google Account Tap Personal info Click Email Select Google Account email Again, if the last option doesnt work, you likely cant change your username yet. If you do have the option to change your email address, then you will see an edit option next to it. From there, you just have to enter a new and available username and you’ll be off to a much less embarrassing future.
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AI is no longer the future of healthcare; its already reshaping how patients are diagnosed and treated. Some of the most interesting developments involve systems that sense and respond to human emotion. Cedars-Sinais Connect platform, for example, adapts care based on patient sentiment; CompanionMx interprets vocal and facial cues to detect anxiety; and Feel Therapeutics uses emotion-sensing wearables to tailor interventions in real time. At the same time, clinical tools are evolving. Hospitals are pairing large language models (LLMs) with AI note-taking apps such as Nabla and Heidi, which can listen, summarize, and respond to the nuances of doctorpatient conversations. Investment in medical scribing technologies alone hit around $800 million last year. A SHIFT TO AI ADAPTATION All of this points to a bigger shift from AI that automates tasks to AI that adapts. Traditional AI sped up paperwork and crunched data. Adaptive AI helps clinicians make better judgments, understand patients more deeply, and respond in context. You can already see this shift in breast cancer screening, genomics, and drug discovery, where high quality data and constant validation are driving real progress. Emotionally-aware tools, when designed responsibly, can strengthen the connection between clinicians and patients, personalize care, and ease pressure on overstretched systems. But as adaptive AI becomes more widely available, success depends less on technical brilliance and more on how systems are built. The tools that succeed will be able to flex around people, fitting patients needs, clinicians workflows, and the realities of care. Good AI needs to be anticipatory and sensitive to context, built for the full diversity of patients. Even the most empathetic AI cannot, of course, erase the imperfections of human systems. Recent studies, for example, show that medical AI tools and LLMbased assistants routinely downplay symptoms in women and treat Black and Asian patients with less empathy than for white men. AI does not cleanse the biases of the real world; it carries them forward and often widens their impact. We have seen this pattern before. DEPLOYMENT MATTERS Thats why deployment conditions matter as much as technology. A system that mimics empathy does not automatically grasp nuance, context, or risk. Without firm ethical boundaries, so-called emotional intelligence can give a false sense of security. Clinicians still need to make the final calls, protecting patients and maintaining trust. AI can be a helpful care partner, but it cannot take on the weight of human responsibility. Building trust requires strengthening the foundations on which it is used. Involving patients, families, and carers from the start surfaces blind spots early and helps balance compassion with practicality. It also clarifies where automation should step back and human care needs to step in. Our Cancer Platform, developed with the Cancer Awareness Trust, illustrates this in practice, showing how empathetic design creates dependable, genuinely helpful tools. AI isnt here to replace people. Its here to support them in their expertise and scale their impact. Ideally we will build machines to handle complexity and pattern recognition, freeing clinicians to focus on what humans do best: exercise judgement, build connection, and provide care. Machines might learn to care, but it is up to us to create the ecosystem where that care is trustworthy, fair, and meaningfula challenge, yes, but one full of opportunity. Nicki Sprinz is CEO of ustwo.
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Beijing imposed sanctions on Friday against 20 U.S. defense-related companies and 10 executives, a week after Washington announced large-scale arms sales to Taiwan.The sanctions entail freezing the companies’ assets in China and banning individuals and organizations from dealing with them, according to the Chinese foreign ministry.The companies include Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, L3Harris Maritime Services and Boeing in St. Louis, while defense firm Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey is one of the executives sanctioned, who can no longer do business in China and are barred from entering the country. Their assets in the East Asian country have also been frozen.The announcement of the U.S. arms-sale package, valued at more than $10 billion, has drawn an angry response from China, which claims Taiwan as its own and says it must come under its control.If approved by the American Congress, it would be the largest-ever U.S. weapons package to the self-ruled territory.“We stress once again that the Taiwan question is at the very core of China’s core interests and the first red line that must not be crossed in ChinaU.S. relations,” the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday. “Any company or individual who engages in arms sales to Taiwan will pay the price for the wrongdoing.”The ministry also urged the U.S. to stop what it called “the dangerous moves of arming Taiwan.”Taiwan is a major flashpoint in U.S.-China relations that analysts worry could explode into military conflict between the two powers. China says that the U.S. arms sales to Taiwan would violate diplomatic agreements between China and the U.S.China’s military has increased its presence in Taiwan’s skies and waters in the past few years, holding joint drills with its warships and fighter jets on a near-daily basis near the island.Under the American federal law, the U.S. is obligated to assist Taiwan with its self-defense, a point that has become increasingly contentious with China. Beijing already has strained ties with Washington over trade, technology and other human rights issues. Associated Press
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