Alibaba’s Damo Academy open-sources Damo Radar, an AI model that analyzes contrast-enhanced CT scans across 18 abdominal organs to detect 146 findings—including cancers—with a reported average AUC of 0.913 in nearly 40,000 real-world examinations.
Apple unveils Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 with an S11 chip powering AI health, Siri and audio tools, including heart-rate readings every five seconds and a Readiness score that requires seven days of qualifying sleep data.
Google unveils AI initiatives spanning 300-plus languages, a 9-billion-variant AlphaGenome Atlas and WeatherNext 3, while launching a Planetary Prediction Engine aimed at forecasting disease outbreaks and other global crises.
Google DeepMind launches AlphaGenome Atlas, a free platform predicting the molecular effects of all 9 billion possible human DNA mutations, already helping researchers identify disease-causing variants linked to epileptic encephalopathy and uncover 22% more genetic associations in major biobank data.
Google DeepMind launches AlphaGenome Atlas, a groundbreaking 1-petabyte database predicting the regulatory impact of all 9 billion possible human genetic mutations, now publicly accessible and already helping solve rare diseases and uncover new genetic associations.
AI visionary Ray Kurzweil joins neurotech startup Subsense as an advisor, backing its groundbreaking noninvasive brain-computer interface that delivers charged nanoparticles to the brain via nasal spray, controlled by a magnetic headset — positioning the $27M-funded company as a consumer-friendly alternative to Elon Musk's Neuralink.
OpenAI integrates ChatGPT Health into Epic's EHR system, granting clinicians read-only access to over 325 million patient records including lab results and medications, while simultaneously facing lawsuits alleging the AI provided dangerous medical advice that nearly killed users.
A groundbreaking 'superhuman' AI tool detects heart failure and valve disease from routine ECGs in under two seconds, identifying up to 90% of valve disease cases in a 67,000-patient trial, potentially fast-tracking high-risk patients to life-saving scans months sooner.
AI is transforming multiple industries simultaneously: Runway's Solaris renders fully functional apps as live video without code, Imperial College London's ECG model detects heart disease in under two seconds with up to 90% accuracy, and Anthropic's Claude agents are now outperforming human safety researchers by over 4x in autonomous AI …
Anthropic launches a groundbreaking hardware protocol connecting AI to physical machines in hours, UK surgeons complete the first live AI-assisted brain surgery restoring a patient's vision, and voice-controlled AI agents hit the mainstream as Apple's iOS 27 ships an AI dictation keyboard enabling users to command multiple agents simultaneously at …