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 13, 2026
(Nature) – Got sore, itchy eyes? You’re probably one of the millions of people who spend too much time staring at screens, being bombarded with blue light. Rub your eyes too much and your eyelids might turn a slight, pinkish … Read More
April 10, 2026
(The Verge) – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is launching an investigation into OpenAI over public safety and national security risks, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a statement on Thursday, Uthmeier says there are concerns that OpenAI’s data and … 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
(NYT) – Prescribing produce, crafting meals: More medical schools are teaching students how to cook and use food as a tool for treating patients. “It’s unfortunately a big misconception that medicine doesn’t have anything to do with food,” she said, … 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
(Comment) – There is, of course, something a bit ridiculous to this whole scene: the “ideal” measurements for girls and boys at each month calculated down to the inch, the doctors with clipboards, the very concept of the most “scientific” … Read More
April 10, 2026
(WSJ) – Noelia Castillo Ramos was in despair. By helping her kill herself, the Spanish state destroyed her autonomy. Advocates of assisted suicide present Castillo’s death as an exercise of individual liberty. They argue that choosing the timing of one’s … Read More
April 10, 2026
(Wired) – Meta’s Muse Spark model offers to analyze users’ health data, including lab results. Beyond the obvious privacy risks, it’s not a capable stand-in for a real doctor. Meta claims that Muse Spark was designed, in part, to be … 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
(Psychiatric Times) – As Canada approaches the planned implementation of their medical euthanasia program for patients with sole psychiatric illnesses, these authors make an argument as to why euthanasia should remain closed to patients with psychiatric disorders. Unlike many other … 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 9, 2026
(Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday put on hold the state of Louisiana’s lawsuit seeking to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide while President Donald Trump’s administration conducts a review of the drug’s safety. U.S. District Judge … Read More
April 9, 2026
(Wired) – Mercor is one of a few firms that OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs rely on to generate training data for their models. The company hires massive networks of human contractors to generate bespoke, proprietary datasets for these … 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
(NYT) – Anthropic said it found critical exposures in every major operating system and Web browser, many of which run power grids, waterworks, airline reservation systems, retailing networks, military systems and hospitals all over the world. If this A.I. tool … 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
(NPR) – “There is a lot of fear and anxiety about AI,” says psychologist Vaile Wright, senior director of health care innovation at the American Psychological Association (APA). “And in particular fear around AI replacing jobs.” Those concerns were a … Read More
