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Daily Briefing for October 12, 2026

CMS chat room gave tech firms access to officials, report says; device makers seek wider RAPID path; FDA grants pacemaker identifier; GPT-5 misreads images

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Technology and AI companies lobbied federal health officials for about a year in a 1,700-member Slack workspace run by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, KFF Health News reported Oct. 9.

Only a handful of the members…

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