AI & Tech Newsletter

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing launches pilot to help educators teach AI across disciplines

This summer, the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing welcomed faculty from colleges and universities across Greater Boston, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Texas to campus for the inaugural AI Educators Pilot, a weeklong workshop aimed at expanding how artificial intelligence…

When to Use Encode-Prefill-Decode Disaggregation to Accelerate Multimodal Model Serving

Encode-prefill-decode (EPD) disaggregation is an inference optimization technique for multimodal models that separates the vision encoder stage from the prefill... Encode-prefill-decode (EPD) disaggregation is an inference optimization technique for multimodal models that…

CUDA Toolkit 13.4 Adds Windows on Arm Support and Greater Control over Shared GPUs

Every NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit release adds functionality and performance improvements that help developers get more from NVIDIA GPUs and the broader NVIDIA software... Every NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit release adds functionality and performance improvements that help developers get more…

Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models

The United States has now named six Chinese AI firms accused of waging industrial-scale attacks distilling US frontier AI model capabilities and perhaps sparing billions in Chinese development costs. In a joint release Tuesday, the National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity…

PHTI Assessment Finds Virtual CKD Management Fails to Slow Disease Progression or Cut Costs

What You Should Know The Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) has released an independent health technology assessment evaluating virtual solutions for chronic kidney disease (CKD) management across stages 3–5. PHTI evaluated eight prominent commercial companies…

Verily Secures Strategic Investment from NVIDIA to Accelerate Precision Health AI Platform

What You Should Know Verily Health Inc. has secured a strategic equity investment from NVIDIA, extending its fundraising momentum following its corporate restructuring and initial $300 million funding round in early 2026. CU Healthcare Innovation Fund II, LP committed an…

Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills

Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board

Paul Christiano joins the OpenAI Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee, bringing experience in AI alignment, safety, and standards.

Anthropic researcher quits with a warning: Self-improving AI could "kill us all"

When a prominent researcher quits a job at a frontier AI lab these days, it's often to pursue a new startup or protest a new business model. But AI researcher Jacob Coxon is using his departure from Anthropic to publicly warn that frontier AI companies are "gambling with our…

Google's AI genome system evaluates every possible one-base change

On Tuesday, Google announced AlphaGenome Atlas, a resource that attempts to predict the consequences of every possible single-base variant in the human genome. The human genome is about 3 billion bases long, so trying the other three DNA bases that don't appear in our reference…

How eClinicalWorks Agentic AI Is Helping Revenue Cycle Leaders Improve Financial Performance

One of the most immediate opportunities for transformation in healthcare is revenue cycle management (RCM), the operational backbone that keeps organizations financially viable. For years, healthcare organizations have faced growing pressure to improve financial performance…

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

STAT+: ARPA-H to invest $62 million to develop FDA-authorized AI to help treat heart failure

ARPA-H, the government agency that funds cutting-edge health research, plans to commit $62.7 million to develop artificial intelligence bots that direct treatment of heart failure. Among the goals of the program, called ADVOCATE, is to produce partially autonomous AI devices…

NVIDIA Brings Real-Time AI to Broadcast, Sports and Global Streaming at IBC

At the IBC conference, running Sept. 11-14 in Amsterdam, the creative, technology and business communities are coming together to turn ideas into action and discuss innovations across the media and entertainment industries. More than 44,000 attendees from 170+ countries are…

Get ready for the game with new football features in Search

An illustrated graphic set against a vibrant green background featuring American football elements, including a gold trophy, a blue helmet, a silver whistle, a football, a mini scoreboard, and play diagrams, with the icon for AI Mode in Google Search in t

IBM releases SOTA Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 model with commercial-friendly license

Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'

It is the latest in a series of increasing warnings about the safety threat posed by artificial intelligence.

STAT+: Can AI fix the emergency room?

Y ou’re reading the web edition of STAT’s AI Prognosis newsletter, our subscriber-exclusive guide to artificial intelligence in health care and medicine. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Wednesday. It’s hard to resist the world’s obsession with productivity and…

GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

Healthcare Doesn’t Need More AI Applications. It Needs Intelligent Orchestration.

Michael Meucci, President and Chief Executive Officer at Arcadia Healthcare has entered a new phase of its AI journey. The industry’s early focus was understandable. Organizations wanted to identify practical use cases that could reduce administrative burden, improve…

The AI policy window is open. We need to act.

Chris Lehane argues that stronger AI capabilities require stronger safety evidence, shared standards, and durable policy action while the policy window remains open.

New AI model forecasts glucose changes in type 1 diabetes patients

Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases, affecting around 66 million adults in Europe - a figure projected to rise to more than 72 million by 2050.

AI Models Are Watermarking Text—Will You Notice?

On 11 August, Anthropic announced that all future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark that identifies its results as AI generated. The company is not alone. Google has its own text watermark (which Anthropic’s is based on) that it uses on the output of its…

Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.

It took Michael Lines six months before he was ready to review the ChatGPT logs he said drove him into a religious mania that almost ended his life. In July, Lines sued OpenAI after weeks of ChatGPT exchanges allegedly pushed him so deep into a delusional spiral that he first…