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AI Audits Accounts as GOP Revives Healthcare Fights

U.S. Adjusts to New Normal in Caracas; AI Impacts Accounting and Healthcare Debates Continue

Caracas, Venezuela is settling into an uneasy normal a month after U.S. forces seized Nicolás Maduro, according to NPR. Meanwhile, in the business world, Goldman Sachs led a $75 million funding round for Fieldguide, an AI-native accounting and audit platform, valuing the company at $700 million, Fortune reported. Domestically, efforts to extend Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies are stalling in Congress as Republicans reignite old arguments, NPR reported.

In Caracas, the situation remains fluid following the U.S. operation. "Nearly a month after U.S. forces seized Nicolás Maduro, Caracas is settling into an uneasy normal, with major changes and lingering questions about what lasts and what comes next," NPR stated.

The rise of artificial intelligence continues to impact various sectors. Fieldguide, founded in 2020 by Jin Chang, aims to automate the more tedious aspects of accounting. According to Fortune, Chang had considered leaving the accounting profession due to the repetitive nature of the work. The funding round, led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, included participation from Geodesic and existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, and Thomson Reuters.

VentureBeat reported on the growing importance of retrieval systems in AI, particularly in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. The article reframes retrieval as infrastructure rather than application logic. "Enterprises have moved quickly to adopt RAG to ground LLMs in proprietary data," VentureBeat noted. "In practice, however, many organizations are discovering that retrieval is no longer a feature bolted onto model inference – it has become a foundational system dependency."

On the healthcare front, the future of the Affordable Care Act remains uncertain. "At the beginning of the year, it seemed like a bipartisan deal to extend the Affordable Care Act enhanced subsidies was within reach," NPR reported. However, those efforts have stalled as Republicans are revisiting old arguments against the ACA. Senators Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, and Bill Cassidy, R-La., were seen discussing the issue in the Capitol, according to NPR.

Adding to the complex landscape, NPR also reported on the legal distinctions between hemp and marijuana, despite them being the same species. The report highlighted the confusion surrounding the plant, which is legal in some forms but faces new restrictions in others. Nick Johnson, author of "Grass Roots," explained the historical context of cannabis as both an industrial material and a drug.

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