Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
One Brooklyn Health said it has selected Hellocare.ai as its enterprise partner for AI-assisted virtual care delivery, the New York City-based health system said in a June 15 news release. The deployment covers two modules: AI-assisted virtual nursing and telehealth,…
For much of the past year, the loudest voices in tech warned that AI was coming for the workforce, The Wall Street Journal reported July 5. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in May 2025 that AI could wipe out half…
UC San Diego has launched the Institute for Applied Health Intelligence, a multidisciplinary initiative aimed at using AI and other digital technologies to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. The institute will bring together experts from UC San Diego Health…
Anthropic has rapidly expanded its footprint in healthcare this year, rolling out a HIPAA-compliant AI platform for providers, investing in drug discovery and public health initiatives, advancing cybersecurity programs aimed at protecting critical infrastructure and weighing in on the future…
OpenAI is in early talks with the Trump administration about handing the federal government a 5% stake in the company, CNN reported July 2. The proposal, still described as conceptual, would also ask other leading U.S. artificial intelligence companies to…
Healthcare has broadly settled on a reassuring principle for clinical AI: keep the human in the loop. For most health systems, clinician oversight has become the standard safeguard and the structural answer to concerns about AI errors, bias and patient…
Anthropic restored public access to its Claude Fable 5 AI model on July 1, after the U.S. Commerce Department fully lifted export controls that had forced both Fable 5 and its sibling model, Mythos 5, offline for 18 days. For…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has reviewed and approved more than 100 clinical AI applications in 2026 under an executive-led governance process. The health system requires every clinical AI tool to undergo review before deployment, evaluating factors including complexity, clinical setting,…
A June study in Nature Medicine found that general-purpose models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic outperformed specialized clinical AI tools from OpenEvidence and Wolters Kluwer across a series of medical benchmarks. OpenEvidence has since asked the journal to retract the…
Anthropic is launching an internal drug discovery program with a focus on neglected diseases that traditional pharmaceutical companies would not consider commercially attractive, CNBC reported June 30. At a June 30 event in San Francisco, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, Anthropic’s life sciences…