AI & Tech Newsletter

GPT-6 Astra: The next generation in intelligence for work

Meet GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s most capable model for business, with advanced reasoning, computer use, and stronger writing and design judgment.

China’s Regulators Take Aim at “AI Boyfriends”

In the first weeks of July, a wave of sad posts rolled through Chinese social media, as people lamented friends and lovers they were about to lose. “He has become a bond in my life, rooted deep in my heart, my spiritual pillar,” one user of Bytedance’s Douboa wrote, according to…

Opinion: Autonomous AI will beat AI-assisted physicians at some medical tasks by 2030

Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Abe Baker- Butler have been debating the proper place for AI in medicine with American Medical Association CEO John Whyte. Now, they are taking their discussion to STAT’s First Opinion. Read Emanuel and Baker-Butler’s essay below and read Whyte’s essay…

Opinion: AMA CEO: AI won’t replace doctors — it will work alongside them

Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Abe Baker- Butler have been debating the proper place for AI in medicine with American Medical Association CEO John Whyte. Now, they are taking their discussion to STAT’s First Opinion. Read Whyte’s essay below and read Emanuel and Baker-Butler ‘s essay…

AlphaGenome Atlas maps billions of genetic changes with AI

The human genome contains approximately 3 billion DNA letters, creating more than 9 billion possible single-letter changes.

STAT+: Can AI fix health care? In the chaos of emergency rooms, the technology comes up short

BOSTON — The building that houses the Brigham and Women’s Hospital emergency department opened in 2022. But by 2025, it was already too small. One early September evening, the emergency room had 59 patients — 152, if you counted everyone in the waiting room. “In terms of rooms…

The Critical Role of Situational Awareness in Healthcare Safety and Response

Andrea Greco, SVP of Healthcare Safety, CENTEGIX Healthcare organizations have invested heavily in workplace violence prevention programs, emergency preparedness initiatives, and staff safety training. Yet despite these efforts, frontline healthcare workers continue to report…

What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math

OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today, the company announced that its agents have solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems, some of the most important open problems in mathematics. Under normal circumstances, that solution would…

Some thoughts on the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem introduces an impressive result from OpenAI, who used an unreleased model to produce a resolution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems that have been subject to a…

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5 OpenAI's image generation models are apparently used "more than 3 billion images across ChatGPT Images and the GPT‑Image models in the API". This latest release improves their instruction-following ability across multiple turns, responds faster…

Forus Triples Raises $150M to Put AI Agents in Every Medical Practice

What You Should Know Forus, the AI-powered network connecting physicians, retail and specialty pharmacies, commercial payers, and biopharma manufacturers, announced a $150M Series C financing round at a $3B valuation. The round triples the company’s valuation just months…

“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens

Meta took days to remove ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Facebook and Instagram. Some ads featured photos of real kids, including a press photo of a young member of a European royal family and images swiped from a popular Instagram profile of a…

Update to Google’s AI weather model improves forecast accuracy

Google is one of the major players in AI (meaning machine learning) weather forecast model space. The models it and others generate have their strengths and weaknesses, but the main advantage is that they can have forecast performance similar to traditional models while…

How GPT-5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

See how an MIT researcher uses GPT-5.6 Sol with Codex to autonomously run quantum computing experiments, analyze results, and calibrate qubits.

Flow Neuroscience Launches FDA-Approved At-Home tDCS Treatment for Major Depressive Disorder

What You Should Know Swedish neurotechnology company Flow Neuroscience officially launched FL-100 across the United States, introducing the first FDA-approved at-home transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) treatment for depression to the American market. Backed by formal…

AI Slop Is Changing How Engineers Review Code

AI coding tools can now generate thousands of lines of code in minutes, helping companies build features, run tests, and fix issues faster. But the flood of AI-generated code still has to be reviewed. Large language models can produce code that looks clean on the surface but…

Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic

STAT+: Oura files to goes public, reported $1.2B in earnings

Good morning health tech readers! I hope you had a wonderful long weekend. Reach me: [email protected] Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome

AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.

Google DeepMind Maps 9 Billion Possible DNA Variants

DNA is often explained as a codebook or set of instructions for producing proteins, and ultimately, life. Some stretches of DNA, called genes, code for proteins, but the vast majority of DNA is considered “noncoding.” Some of it has no known function, while other segments are…

The Work Now Within Reach

Explore how more capable, affordable AI can expand the work people and businesses can accomplish—and make growth more economical.

Introducing CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels

In September 2026, NVIDIA announced it is leaning into native GPU programming in Rust. CUDA C++ and CUDA Python are mature, enterprise-grade toolchains, and... In September 2026, NVIDIA announced it is leaning into native GPU programming in Rust. CUDA C++ and CUDA Python are…

Survey Reveals AI Adoption is Accelerating in Healthcare, But Readiness is Not

[Sponsored] The 2026 Healthcare AI Readiness Index, a new report by Cotiviti and MedCity News, is based on a survey of 70 healthcare leaders over the summer and shares candid views of how they balance harnessing AI with operational, regulatory and security challenges it creates.…

This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected

Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door. On the day I visited, earlier this year, there’s only one other person there, and little in the way of…