Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity Has Ever Made They power our phones, cars, dishwashers—and the A.I. systems that prop up the economy. They’re also at the heart of fierce geopolitical rivalry. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...?
Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity Has Ever Made
They power our phones, cars, dishwashers—and the A.I. systems that prop up the economy. They’re also at the heart of fierce geopolitical rivalry.
newyorker.com
The quest for immortality has become serious business As entrepreneurs peddle scans and supplements, biotechs are probing the mysteries of ageing www.economist.com/business/202...
The quest for immortality has become serious business
As entrepreneurs peddle scans and supplements, biotechs are probing the mysteries of ageing
economist.com
AI-Identified Reasons for Nonescalation of Lipid-Lowering Therapy for Secondary Prevention jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...?
AI Reasons for Nonescalation of Lipid-Lowering Therapy
This cohort study investigates patterns in documented low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) strategies and artificial intelligence (AI)–identified reasons for lipid-lowering therapy nonescalatio...
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Equity in Maternal–Fetal Medicine — Technological Advances and a Potential Path Forward www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....?
Equity in Maternal–Fetal Medicine — Technological Advances and a Potential Path Forward | NEJM
Without safeguards, rapid technological development in maternal–fetal medicine could reinforce existing racial, socioeconomic, and geographic inequities in prenatal care.
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AI depends on medical records that don’t always tell the full truth about women For AI to achieve its potential in medicine, records need to tell the complete story www.statnews.com/2026/11/06/w...?
AI depends on medical records that don’t always tell the full truth about women
“For AI to achieve its full potential in women’s health, medical records need to tell the complete story,” experts write.
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Randomized Evaluation of an Autoimmune Disease Prediction Model — AURA (AUtoimmune Risk Assessment) ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....?
Randomized Evaluation of an Autoimmune Disease Prediction Model — AURA (AUtoimmune Risk Assessment)
No evidence-based guidance exists for triaging individuals with positive antinuclear antibody (ANA) tests for rheumatology referral. We developed and deployed an interpretable clinical prediction m...
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Patients are acting more like consumers. Good Health care cannot be an ordinary market. But it could be much more like one www.economist.com/leaders/2026...
Patients are acting more like consumers. Good
Health care cannot be an ordinary market. But it could be much more like one
economist.com
This Simple Rule Can Keep AI From Doing All Your Thinking time.com/article/2026...
This Simple Rule Can Keep AI From Doing All Your Thinking
Use your brain before you prompt.
time.com
Navigational Health—The Next Transformation in Health Care jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...?
Navigational Health in Health Care
This Viewpoint discusses moving health care from episodic precision toward proactive, adaptive management of health and disease.
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Did the World Just Gain Hundreds of Millions of Alzheimer’s Patients? A new definition of Alzheimer’s includes people without symptoms. Experts are fiercely divided over whether that makes sense—and whether the new drugs really help. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...?
Did the World Just Gain Hundreds of Millions of Alzheimer’s Patients?
A new definition of Alzheimer’s includes people without symptoms. Experts are fiercely divided over whether that makes sense—and whether the new drugs really help.
newyorker.com
AI agents enter the ‘wet lab’ An AI system coordinates laboratory instruments to conduct multi-step molecular-biology experiments with limited human intervention. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI agents enter the ‘wet lab’
An AI system coordinates laboratory instruments to conduct multi-step molecular-biology experiments with limited human intervention.
nature.com
After a brain injury from a motorcycle accident, this middle school teacher became a musical genius. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...?
The Brain Injury That Made a Middle School Teacher a Musical Genius
When Ed Freytag suffered a brain injury in a motorcycle accident, it unlocked a rare musical talent.
nytimes.com
The Clinical Utility of AI-Based Prediction and Stratification Models jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...?
The Clinical Utility of AI-Based Prediction and Stratification Models
This article outlines a strategy of pursuing “prediction without hype” and judging AI by whether it is trustworthy, transportable, and useful at the point of care.
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Generative Artificial Intelligence and Maternal Health Outcomes in Pregnant and Postpartum Individuals jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...?
Generative AI and Maternal Health Outcomes in Pregnant and Postpartum Individuals
This randomized clinical trial evaluates whether access to a generative artificial intelligence (AI) maternal health chatbot improves 12-month maternal health outcomes.
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Robots bowling the perfect doosra are some way off but AI is already reshaping cricket Artificial intelligence is not replacing the player, coach or analyst, but it is certainly allowing them to do more www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...?
The Spin | Robots bowling the perfect doosra are some way off but AI is already reshaping cricket
Artificial intelligence is not replacing the player, coach or analyst, but it is certainly allowing them to do more
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How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check Borrowing from disciplines like economics could help AI safety researchers control AI models, even if they don’t understand them. www.technologyreview.com/2026/11/03/1...?
How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check
Borrowing from disciplines like economics could help AI safety researchers control AI models, even if they don’t understand them.
technologyreview.com
Meet Neuropixels: how probes that track hundreds of brain cells at once are revolutionizing neuroscience From rodents to humans, tools that enable large-scale, single-cell neuronal recordings are exposing the inner workings of the brain. www.nature.com/articles/d41...?
Meet Neuropixels: how probes that track hundreds of brain cells at once are revolutionizing neuroscience
From rodents to humans, tools that enable large-scale, single-cell neuronal recordings are exposing the inner workings of the brain.
nature.com
How democracy depends on science — and must protect it Verified information from trusted experts is crucial to help the public and governments navigate rapid changes and increasing complexity. www.nature.com/articles/d41...?
How democracy depends on science — and must protect it
Verified information from trusted experts is crucial to help the public and governments navigate rapid changes and increasing complexity.
nature.com
Performance of artificial intelligence versus clinician left-ventricular segmentation of cardiac MRI for mortality prediction www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Performance of artificial intelligence versus clinician left-ventricular segmentation of cardiac MRI for mortality prediction: a retrospective, multicentre, prognostic study
AI-derived ejection fraction shows marginally superior prediction for mortality than clinician-derived ejection fraction in patients who had CMR. Findings support the potential utility of AI for first...
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Can AI be an author? AI use spurs debate over scientific authorship Rules governing credit and responsibility for machine-written papers may need a reboot www.science.org/content/arti...?
Who wrote that paper? AI use spurs debate over scientific authorship
Rules governing credit and responsibility for machine-written papers may need a reboot
science.org
Parent Comfort With Artificial Intelligence–Led Behavioral Therapy for Their Child jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...?
Parent Comfort With AI-Led Behavioral Therapy
This survey study assesses the comfort of parents with pediatric behavioral therapy led by artificial intelligence (AI) by evaluating results from a cross-sectional survey of US adults with at least 1...
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AI and Virtual Reality Enter the Therapist’s Office New technologies could tackle treatment-resistant conditions, but some experts in the field are wary. undark.org/2026/10/30/a...
AI and Virtual Reality Enter the Therapist’s Office
New technologies could tackle treatment-resistant conditions, but some experts in the field are wary.
undark.org
Stopping the biological clock. Treatments for age-related infertility are being developed at last Startups hope to improve IVF by revealing the biology of infertility www.economist.com/science-and-...
Treatments for age-related infertility are being developed at last
Startups hope to improve IVF by revealing the biology of infertility
economist.com
An agentic AI system enhances clinical detection of immune-related adverse events in a multi-phase validation study www.nature.com/articles/s43...
An agentic AI system enhances clinical detection of immune-related adverse events in a multi-phase validation study - Nature Cancer
Gallifant et al. develop an AI agent to assist clinicians in assessing immune-related adverse events.
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These three red flags could unmask dodgy journals As poor publishing practices proliferate, scholarly databases are under pressure to ensure the titles they list are reputable. www.nature.com/articles/d41...?
These three red flags could unmask dodgy journals
As poor publishing practices proliferate, scholarly databases are under pressure to ensure the titles they list are reputable.
nature.com
Pediatricians Are Not Psychiatrists But parents desperate for in-network mental-health treatment are leaning on them anyway. www.thecut.com/article/can-...?
Pediatricians Weren’t Trained to Treat Childhood Depression
Parents are increasingly turning to their child’s primary-care doctor for mental-health help. But many doctors say they’re ill prepared for the task.
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The grand plan to transform psychiatry — by personalizing mental-health care Could a blood sample, a brain scan and a look at your phone data transform how your psychiatrist treats you? www.nature.com/articles/d41...?
The grand plan to transform psychiatry — by personalizing mental-health care
Could a blood sample, a brain scan and a look at your phone data transform how your psychiatrist treats you?
nature.com
Meet the AI Agents Trying to Be Real-Life Journalists Jayden, Sam, and Zack are eagerly pitching editors on reported stories and investigative features. The catch? They're all AI agents. www.wired.com/story/ai-age...?
Meet the AI Agents Trying to Be Real-Life Journalists
Jayden, Sam, and Zack are eagerly pitching editors on reported stories and investigative features. The catch? They're all AI agents.
wired.com
Associations of digital media use with health, behavioural and developmental outcomes in children and adolescents www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...?
Associations of digital media use with health, behavioural and developmental outcomes in children and adolescents: an umbrella review and meta-analysis
The health implications of digital media use varied across developmental stages and according to the amount, content, context, and patterns of exposure. Given the predominantly observational nature of...
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Could measuring immune health reshape medical care? Finding practical ways to analyse the state of a person’s immune system could guide treatment decisions and create opportunities for disease prevention. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Could measuring immune health reshape medical care?
Finding practical ways to analyse the state of a person’s immune system could guide treatment decisions and create opportunities for disease prevention.
nature.com