Have you ever looked at your Oura Ring or Apple Watch and thought, “I wanna swallow this”?

Probably not — or so we hope — but there is a company taking health tracking even deeper.

Digital health company Celero Systems is developing an electronic pill that can measure heart rate, breathing rate, and core temperature from inside our bodies, per Wired.

This could have some pretty cool applications:

• In a small clinical trial, the company found that the pill was nearly as accurate as the standard polysomnogram used for diagnosing sleep apnea.
• The pill could be used for home monitoring, allowing doctors to catch irregularly occurring issues, like breathing problems from asthma or cardiac problems.
• The capsule could potentially be able to detect overdoses and prevent related deaths by monitoring breathing and contacting emergency services.

To do all this, the pill, which is the size of a multivitamin, is filled with sensors, a microprocessor, a radio antenna, and batteries.

It remains intact as it passes through your digestive system, wirelessly transmitting measurements to a computer before its grand finale in the toilet bowl a few days later.

The tech isn’t without precedent

Ingestible health-tracking tech is already in use; similar devices can take photos of your gastrointestinal tract, monitor acid reflux, and track medication use.

But Celero’s pill overcomes one major obstacle: Our guts are nosy as hell.

The company’s signal processing techniques can separate heartbeats and breaths from digestive system sound waves, producing more accurate data.

As for what’s next…

… The company is trying to determine how to prolong the pill’s journey inside the body in hopes of taking its applications one step further: namely, to deliver overdose-reversing drugs the moment one is detected, an idea that’s been proposed as a solution for the opioid epidemic.

Anyway… Did this make anyone else think of that one episode of “The Magic School Bus”?

If you haven’t announced your plans to “leverage AI,” are you really even a CEO?

An NBC News analysis shows that ~50% of S&P 500 earnings calls have referenced AI since May, putting it about on par with mentions of interest rates and the Federal Reserve.

A whirl through Q3 earnings calls is a fun ride, packed with a lot of this:

• Ulta Beauty’s CEO: “AI is an important part of our business.”
• Leaders at Williams-Sonoma — yep, the kitchenware company — dropped that they’re “early adapters of integrating AI” just minutes into their last call.

Saying you’re working on AI stuff > actually using it

For late-blooming execs who haven’t yet talked a big game about AI, take heart: Falling behind on talking about AI doesn’t necessarily mean falling behind on actually integrating it into a company’s workflow.

• A recent US Census Bureau survey found that only 4.4% of businesses are actively using AI to produce goods or services.
• Some industries are naturally ahead of others: 16.6% of the “information” sector reported recently using AI, compared to just 1.5% and 1.3% of construction and hospitality businesses, respectively.

What’s next?

Assume the slow roll into AI adoption will stay relatively slow for many companies:

• Having only just passed the one-year anniversary of ChatGPT’s introduction, there remain few enterprise tools on the market.
• Executives are still working to understand all of the associated costs of AI adoption.
• Acquiring AI talent can be an uphill climb; there are only so many pros in the emerging field, raising salaries and competition.

Plus, with the European Union reaching an agreement on its AI Act this weekend, more regulatory roadblocks have emerged. The legislation will limit AI adoption for entire European industries, like water and energy, while the EU’s new transparency requirements could slow development for companies like OpenAI.

The great news for executives: Even if you’re only talking about AI barriers, you’re still bound to hit your “AI” mention quota.

700: Bars of soap used to move the Elmwood building — a historic 220-ton former hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia — over four meters. To smoothly glide it off its foundation, Sheldon Rushton said his construction biz used Ivory soap (apparently the softest kind) instead of rollers. The current owner of the Elmwood, which fell into disrepair during its time as an apartment building, intends to restore it in its new spot and build a nine-story apartment building next door.

52: Number of Kemp’s ridley sea turtles flown via private jet from the New England Aquarium in Massachusetts to the much warmer Florida. The endangered turtles, which were suffering from “cold stun” due to frigid waters, will be returned to their natural habitat after they’re rehabbed in the Sunshine State. If the return trip is also via private jet, that’ll be two more times these reptiles have been on a private jet than most of us.

70%+: Percentage of Presto Automation customer interactions that require human intervention. Presto’s AI chatbot takes drive-thru orders at fast-food establishments, including Carl’s Jr. and Checkers. However, per an SEC filing, most transactions receive help from remote human workers located in the Philippines and elsewhere. This seems to be a pattern among AI startups, per The Verge, in which they replace human jobs not with AI, but with humans in countries where wages are lower. (Sigh.)

$2.15B: How much MacKenzie Scott donated across 360 organizations this year. This included $12m to the Howard University College of Medicine; Home Grown, which works to increase child care access; and the Clean Slate Initiative, which works on clearing the records of formerly incarcerated people. Scott’s current net worth is $33.7B.