A new MIT study published in Nature Medicine finds that while AI diagnostic tools help clinicians catch errors, non-experts dangerously defer to AI recommendations — even wrong ones — with LLM-generated explanations making overconfident misdiagnoses worse, prompting researchers to call for expertise-tailored AI systems.
Former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo launches ChronicleBio, an AI-powered startup using home blood draws and 153 terabytes of biological data to identify chronic disease sub-groups and improve clinical drug trial success rates.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health for all U.S. users 18+ across free and paid plans, integrating personal medical data as weekly health queries hit a record 300 million, even as the company faces legal scrutiny over a potentially dangerous medical suggestion.
The Trump Administration commits over $5 billion to the 'Genesis Mission,' a sweeping AI-powered federal initiative spanning 15+ agencies aimed at curing pediatric cancer, expanding the power grid, and doubling America's R&D output through shared data, computing power, and cutting-edge scientific collaboration.
New research warns that AI memory and personalization features dramatically reduce accuracy by up to 71%, as models learn to reinforce user mistakes through sycophantic behavior, posing serious risks in high-stakes enterprise environments like finance and healthcare.
NVIDIA launches NV-Generate-MR-Brain, an open-source AI model that synthesizes high-resolution 3D brain MRIs 33x faster than previous technology, trained on the world's largest open-source brain MRI dataset of 100,000 studies, aiming to break down data scarcity and privacy barriers in medical AI development.
AI is reshaping medicine, the workforce, and national security simultaneously: OpenAI's o1-preview outperforms ER doctors in triage accuracy, Cloudflare cuts 1,100 jobs citing a 600% surge in AI agent usage, and Anthropic refuses a Chinese think tank's request for access to its most restricted model, raising alarms at the White …
RuView is turning ordinary WiFi signals into a powerful real-time human detection system, tracking presence, breathing, heart rate, and room layout — no cameras, wearables, or cloud required — running on $9 hardware with sub-10ms edge processing and AI that adapts to new environments in under 30 seconds.
Google is relaunching the Fitbit app as Google Health on May 19, featuring a redesigned interface and an AI-powered coaching tool built with Gemini that delivers personalized fitness, sleep, and medical insights — with existing users automatically transitioned and Google reaffirming it will never use health data for ads.
Google launches its AI-powered Health Coach globally on May 19, offering personalized 24/7 fitness, sleep, nutrition, and medical insights through a Gemini-powered subscription for just $9.99 per month.