Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Wednesday, April 2nd. I'm Victoria Craig for the Wall Street Journal.

New York's gig economy workers could soon have a faster option to see a doctor, thanks to, you guessed it, AI.

Then, there's a battle among tech titans brewing above our heads, actually way above our heads,

for coveted airwaves that eliminate dreaded cell phone dead zones.

We'll talk to our reporter in a WSJ exclusive about how Apple and Elon Musk are going head-to-head over satellites.

First, humans are leveraging artificial intelligence to make nearly every aspect of life easier and more convenient, and that now includes visits to the doctor.

At least that could be the case for some gig economy workers like drivers for ride-sharing services.

Brian Gormley covers venture capital and health care for WSJ Pro. He exclusively reports that L.A.-based Akito Labs is bringing its

scope AI technology to the streets of New York to help increase access to and speed up medical

treatments for gig workers. So Brian, talk us through what Akito is and how it works.

Akito is setting up doctors around New York City, starting in Queens, who are using

an artificial intelligence technology to help them diagnose and identify treatments for patients. Drivers would stop in at one of Akito's locations.

They would talk to a medical assistant who is prompted to ask questions by scope AI through

artificial intelligence. The artificial intelligence system would take the patient's history and

symptoms and develop a diagnosis or diagnoses and treatment recommendations, and a doctor would later

accept or modify or reject those recommendations. Akito trained Scope AI on historical data on patient visits

so that it could accurately predict diagnoses and treatments. It's been aided by the development

of large language models and the technology is going to reach the point where they are ready to

introduce it into actual

medical practice, which they started last year, and initially in cardiology in keto's own

patients. But now the company plans to extend that technology to other specialties in its medical

practices as well. So it's designed not necessarily to be a cost saver for doctors' offices

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