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THE FRIDAY DOWNLOAD: AI Companions, Brain-Scanning Breakthroughs, and Smarter Models (November 7, 2025)
07 Nov 2025
This week on The Friday Download, we recapped:AI Companion Apps Surge: Paradot goes viral as users explore emotional bonds with personalized AI companions.Healthcare Breakthrough: New AI models detect early signs of Alzheimer’s using retinal scans, enabling earlier intervention.Tech Snack: OpenAI releases o3-mini, a compact reasoning model supporting wider accessibility in AI development.References: • Paradot App Trend Coverage – TechRadar & TikTok Usage Reports, 2025 • AI Retinal Screening Study – Journal of Neurology / BioRxiv Preprint, 2025 • OpenAI o3-mini Release Notes – OpenAI Developer Blog, 2025
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