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April 10, 2026

Florida launches investigation into OpenAI

(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

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April 10, 2026

Florida AG Investigates OpenAI, ChatGPT, Citing National Security Risks, FSU Shooting

(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

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April 10, 2026

Can Food Actually Be Medicine? These Doctors Say Yes

(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

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April 10, 2026

A tiny experiment using Artemis II astronaut cells could reshape medicine

(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

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April 10, 2026

Better Babies: Natality’s Stand Against Ideology

(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

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April 10, 2026

Assisted Suicide Is a Threat to Freedom

(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

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April 10, 2026

Meta’s New AI Asked for My Raw Health Data—and Gave Me Terrible Advice

(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

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April 10, 2026

OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters

(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

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April 9, 2026

Scientists Are Finally Unlocking a Cancer Treatment’s Full Potential

(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

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April 9, 2026

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Is So Powerful, It ‘Could Reshape Cybersecurity’

(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

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April 9, 2026

MAID: No Evidence Base for Futility and Irremediability in Psychiatric Disorders

(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

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April 9, 2026

U.S. Fertility Rates Drop to Another Record Low

(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

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April 9, 2026

Vegetative Patients May Be More Aware Than We Knew

(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

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April 9, 2026

Patients Are Using Chatbots to Fight Medical Bills, With Mixed Results

(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

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April 9, 2026

US judge pauses Louisiana’s challenge to FDA abortion drug rule

(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

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April 9, 2026

Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk

(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

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April 8, 2026

Why obesity drugs work better for some people: these genes hold clues

(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

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April 8, 2026

The Moment a New Cancer Treatment Met Its First Patient

(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

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April 8, 2026

Anthropic’s Restraint Is a Terrifying Warning Sign

(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

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April 8, 2026

Surprising links between autism, Alzheimer’s could change how we treat both

(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

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April 8, 2026

How Psychedelics Affect the Brain

(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

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April 8, 2026

AI in the mental health care workforce is met with fear, pushback — and enthusiasm

(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

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April 8, 2026

Idaho Cut Services for People With Schizophrenia. Then the Deaths Began.

(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

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April 7, 2026

Over-the-counter medication abortion? These researchers say it would be safe

(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

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April 7, 2026

Why the U.S. Spends So Much on Healthcare

(WSJ) – A big reason is the high prices Americans pay for surgeries and drugs Americans spend more on healthcare than anyone else in the world. Just insuring a family here costs nearly $27,000 a year, enough to buy a … Read More

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