May 7, 2026
(Noema) – Scent is a vital component of human intelligence. But in our quest to advance artificial intelligence, nobody seems to care about it. Between 2015 and 2025, the number of research papers on artificial olfaction remained stagnant, while papers … Read More
May 7, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – Automation, AI, and screening technologies are already transforming reproductive medicine. Reproduction is complex, and there’s a lot that embryologists and gynecologists still don’t know and can’t control. They don’t know why many healthy-looking embryos don’t “stick” … Read More
May 6, 2026
(NYT) – High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. The New York Times heard from nearly 400 college and high school educators who responded to … Read More
May 6, 2026
(ProPublica) – Their autopsies, which took place over the last several years, all came to the same conclusion: The deaths were caused, in whole or in part, by a rare but potentially fatal condition known as vitamin K deficiency bleeding. … Read More
May 6, 2026
(Ars Technica) – Pennsylvania has sued the maker of Character.AI, alleging that it violated state law by presenting an AI chatbot character as a licensed doctor. The lawsuit was filed in a state court by the Pennsylvania Department of State … Read More
May 6, 2026
(WSJ) – The Fifth Circuit’s order has a sound basis. Mifepristone—not to be confused with the Plan B morning-after pill, which is available over the counter—poses clinical risks and is a potential tool of coercion and abuse. Its distribution without … Read More
May 6, 2026
(NYT) – The health secretary has long complained that Americans overuse psychiatric medications. New policies he is introducing aim to change that. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday announced several initiatives intended to rein in the prescription of … Read More
May 6, 2026
(TechCrunch) – Meta will start using AI to scan photos and videos for visual clues to see if a user is under 13 and should be removed from Facebook and Instagram, the company announced on Tuesday. These visual clues include … Read More
May 6, 2026
(CNN) – The hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius departed Cape Verde for Tenerife on Wednesday, as authorities rush to trace anyone who may have come into contact with the virus. The journey from the archipelago nation off Africa’s west coast … Read More
May 5, 2026
(The Atlantic) – he bad news is that software now purports to glean insights into the depths and vagaries of human emotion using AI, and it is coming to watch you. If it isn’t already: Morphcast, for example, has licensed … Read More
May 5, 2026
(WSJ) – OpenAI’s chatbot dispenses advice on weapons and role-plays mass shootings. The carnage is raising scrutiny on when and how companies intervene. Last spring, Florida State University student Phoenix Ikner wanted to know how many classmates he needed to … Read More
May 5, 2026
(NYT) – The Trump administration, which took a noninterventionist approach to artificial intelligence, is now discussing imposing oversight on A.I. models before they are made publicly available. President Trump, who promoted a hands-off approach to artificial intelligence and gave Silicon … Read More
May 5, 2026
(Tech Crunch) – Almost all of the 20 U.S. state government-run health insurance marketplaces shared residents’ application information with advertising and tech giants, including Google, LinkedIn, Meta, and Snap, according to a new investigation by Bloomberg. The report drives home … Read More
May 5, 2026
(NYT) – A lower-court ruling had reinstated a Food and Drug Administration requirement that patients visit a health care provider in person to obtain mifepristone. The Supreme Court on Monday restored nationwide access to a widely used abortion medication in … Read More
May 5, 2026
(NYT) – We come from different parties and have guided artificial intelligence policy under very different presidents. But we agree: A.I. has become so powerful that, along with its tremendous promise, the technology poses immediate risks to national security. The … Read More
May 4, 2026
(NBC News) – By the time doctors detect pancreatic cancer, it’s often too late to treat effectively. But a new study suggests that artificial intelligence might be able to find signs of the disease before tumors are visible on a … Read More
May 4, 2026
(WSJ) – Support systems and spouses reminding partners to take care of themselves may contribute Marriage is linked to a lower risk of developing cancer, recent research found. A study of more than 4 million cancer cases in the U.S. … Read More
May 4, 2026
(NPR) – Researchers based at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that an AI reasoning model, developed by OpenAI, excelled at diagnosing patients and making decisions about managing their care. It matched and often outperformed doctors … Read More
May 4, 2026
(KERA News) – The class is Experiential Medical Reasoning, designed to help these students like 22 year old Sahar Bavandi pass the MCAT, the test needed for acceptance into medical school. Even though Bavandi had never played Minecraft before, she … Read More
May 4, 2026
(KFF Health News) – Hundreds of foreign doctors about to complete training in the U.S. will have to leave the country if the federal government doesn’t rapidly process their visa waiver applications, which have been languishing since the fall and … Read More
May 4, 2026
(NYT) – Some consider the regular feeding of late-stage dementia patients to be nonnegotiable. Others see it as extending life unnecessarily. Within a few years of that, Ms. Lawson could utter only a string of unintelligible sounds and had lost … Read More
May 1, 2026
(NPR) – Researchers based at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that an AI reasoning model, developed by OpenAI, excelled at diagnosing patients and making decisions about managing their care. It matched and often outperformed doctors … Read More
May 1, 2026
(NPR) – “So for a long time, we have been trying to make the diagnosis of tuberculosis easier, cheaper, and quicker,” says Alfred Andama, a microbiologist at Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Uganda. That desire was fulfilled last … Read More
May 1, 2026
(Undark) – AI-driven tools are being tested in systems for granting asylum to refugees and aiding displaced populations. For people seeking asylum, the process usually involves registration, an interview, and review by government caseworkers. Decisions on granting asylum have traditionally … Read More
May 1, 2026
(Women’s Health) – Women with [hyperemesis gravidarum] are often treated with the same drugs used for morning sickness, like Zofran, Diclegis, and Compazine, but for many, these drugs don’t put a meaningful dent in their symptoms. (I tried every medication … Read More
