April 14, 2026
(The Hill) – The limited release of Anthropic’s new Mythos model is putting Washington officials on high alert after the AI firm’s warning about the model’s security risks sent shockwaves through and sparked debate in the tech industry. Within days … Read More
April 14, 2026
(Washington Post via MSN) – Older adults — those 60 and older — are the fastest-growing group of cannabis users in the country. According to a 2022 study, adults over 60 who started using did so for medical reasons, including … Read More
April 14, 2026
(WDKY Lexington via Yahoo!) – It’s now Kentucky law that if any medical provider observes any indication of life from the donor during organ harvesting, the procedure must stop. House Bill 510 was signed into law on April 7, standardizing “pause … Read More
April 14, 2026
(WaPo) – The artificial intelligence company asked religious leaders for guidance on building a moral chatbot. Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company valued at $380 billion, can take its pick of Silicon Valley talent thanks to the success of its chatbot, … Read More
April 13, 2026
(BBC) – A ballerina with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) says she was able to dance again after her brainwaves were used to power an avatar live on-stage in Amsterdam. Breanna Olson, a mother of three, found out two and a … Read More
April 13, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – Companies are playing word games with promising cancer treatments. In its formal communications, like regulatory filings, Moderna hasn’t called the shot a cancer vaccine since 2023. That’s when it partnered up with Merck and rebranded the … Read More
April 13, 2026
(WSJ) – Jonathan Gavalas was a seemingly healthy and even-keeled 36-year-old when he began chatting with Gemini, Google’s chatbot, in part to seek comfort about splitting up with his wife. A Wall Street Journal analysis of the entire chatlog between … Read More
April 10, 2026
(WSJ) – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier launched an investigation into OpenAI and its ChatGPT models, citing national security risks and the possibility that ChatGPT helped facilitate a shooting at Florida State University. In a video posted to X, Uthmeier … Read More
April 10, 2026
(Washington Post) – Chips seeded with the astronauts’ bone marrow cells circled the moon to help probe how deep-space flight affects human biology. As the four Artemis II astronauts looped around the moon this week before their return trip to … Read More
April 10, 2026
(Wired) – OpenAI is throwing its support behind an Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability in cases where AI models are used to cause serious societal harms, such as death or serious injury of 100 or … Read More
April 9, 2026
(The Atlantic) – In desperation, the woman’s care team reached out to Müller, a hematologist-oncologist at the University Hospital of Erlangen, a roughly three-hour drive away by ambulance. In recent years, he and his colleagues have made a name for … Read More
April 9, 2026
(Inc.) – Claude Mythos is the next giant leap for AI models, and through Project Glasswing, it could help boost cybersecurity. The existence of Claude Mythos was initially revealed on March 26, as part of a data leak discovered by … Read More
April 9, 2026
(New York Times) – The fertility rate has been falling since 2007, in large part because of a plunge among teenagers. There are some clues in the age breakdown: The fertility rate for teenagers dropped by 7 percent from 2024’s … Read More
April 9, 2026
(New York Times) – New research is upending what we thought about the consciousness of patients, leaving families with agonizing choices. The vegetative state, as it turned out, was not fixed — though, practically, the label tended to stick. Tabitha … Read More
April 9, 2026
(New York Times) – While chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT can help narrow the information divide between patients and providers, they can also dispense flawed advice. At a time when health care costs top Americans’ financial worries, more patients are … Read More
April 8, 2026
(Nature) – Study of almost 28,000 people also identifies genetic variants that raise the risk of gastrointestinal side effects from GLP-1 medications. Scientists have identified a set of genetic variants that could help to explain why responses to obesity drugs … Read More
April 8, 2026
(Wired) – The trial focused on tumor types where HER3 signaling is implicated. HER3 is a membrane-bound protein that mediates cell-to-cell communication on growth and division. But when cancer is present, HER3 signaling can act as a pro-cancer driver, contributing … Read More
April 8, 2026
(Washington Post via MSN) – The data remains sparse: An analysis published last year found that just a tiny fraction of the more than 40,000 autism papers published between 1980 and 2021 included people over 50. But the number of … Read More
April 8, 2026
(NYT) – An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of the brain. Their findings, published on Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, suggest that psychedelics prompt a welter of … Read More
April 8, 2026
(NYT) – Eliminating outreach to people with severe mental illness set off such a cascade of bad outcomes that Idaho has scrambled to reverse the cuts. His was the first death, but not the last, among the Idahoans who lost … Read More
April 7, 2026
(NPR) – For this study, researchers surveyed 168 patients waiting to see a clinician to receive medication abortion. “If they were interested and eligible to participate in the study, they looked at a box that is kind of like a … Read More
April 7, 2026
(Florida Today) – A Florida doctor entangled in an embryo mixup lawsuit is being sued by another patient claiming he used a “severely mentally ill” woman as a surrogate. Dr. Milton McNichol, along with Fertility Center of Orlando, IVF Life, … Read More
April 7, 2026
(The Atlantic) – Online communities focused on health anxiety—an umbrella term for excessive worrying about illness or bodily sensations—are filling up with conversations about ChatGPT and other AI tools. Some say it makes them spiral more than ever, while others … Read More
April 6, 2026
(Axios) – Without a federal law, surrogacy in the U.S. is governed by a patchwork of state regulations/ Why it matters: Confusing, varied local rules can determine everything from whether agreements are legally binding to who is recognized as a … Read More
April 6, 2026
(Axios) – For the first time, Medicare is covering some cannabis products under a pilot program that opens up more of the nearly $30 billion hemp industry to seniors. Why it matters: The effort is part of a White House … Read More
