Health
AI in medicine, drug discovery, diagnostics, and brain-computer interfaces like implants

Utah abre su sandbox de IA sanitaria a software de prescripciones y herramientas de salud femenina
El estado ha aprobado nuevos pilotos que permiten a empresas de IA probar productos de gestión farmacéutica y salud femenina en pacientes reales, con revisores independientes supervisando ahora el proceso.

Cuando la IA acierta en el hecho pero culpa a la fuente equivocada, esta nueva herramienta lo detecta
ProvenanceGuard apunta a un punto ciego en la verificación de hechos de la IA: una afirmación puede ser verdadera y aun así estar falsamente atribuida. En pruebas médicas, detectó 138 de 139 afirmaciones que deberían haber sido bloqueadas.

Una Universidad del Reino Unido Entrenó un Pronosticador de IA de Contaminación del Aire en Dos Días, Luego lo Movió a un Escritorio
Investigadores de la Universidad de Manchester utilizaron herramientas de IA meteorológica de Nvidia para construir un modelo de contaminación de alcance nacional preciso en unos pocos kilómetros cuadrados. El mismo modelo que requería una supercomputadora nacional para entrenarse ahora funciona en un escritorio.

UK watchdog says AI in the NHS needs its own rulebook
Britain's medicine regulator has published 44 recommendations to govern AI health products, including a patient right to know when AI is involved in their care.

Google dice que su IA ahora llega a 300 idiomas y 7 mil millones de personas. Esto es lo que realmente significa.
Desde detectar cánceres de mama pasados por alto hasta advertir a jamaicanos sobre un huracán, Google está lanzando herramientas de IA que van mucho más allá del chatbot.

Apple's Health App Will Now Tell You Your 'Health Age' and How Ready Your Body Is Today
A revamped Apple Health app uses Apple's on-device AI to turn your watch and phone data into a single readiness score, a biological age estimate, and personalised coaching tips.

Arm Holdings CEO says AI will help cure cancer within our lifetimes
Rene Haas, chief executive of the chip designer behind most smartphones, believes AI will eventually crack biological puzzles too complex for humans alone. He also sees humanoid robots going mainstream within five years.

A GP Says AI Consultation Notes Are Making Her Job Harder, Not Easier
An out-of-hours doctor warns that AI-written patient notes are riddled with errors and contradictions, and that she trusts a colleague's typed summary far more than anything a machine produces.

Los pacientes se retiran de sus datos del NHS por preocupaciones sobre Palantir, advierte el ministro
Decenas de miles de personas han retirado sus historiales médicos de los programas de investigación del NHS, y el ministro de innovación sanitaria del Reino Unido dice que la desconfianza hacia la empresa tecnológica estadounidense Palantir podría ser la culpable.

Faster cancer-slide AI cuts computing cost by 50 times, Microsoft Research says
Two new open-weight models shrink the hardware needed to scan thousands of cancer tissue slides, bringing large-scale pathology research within reach of labs that can't afford supercomputer budgets.

ChatGPT is now plugged into the medical records of 325 million patients
OpenAI has linked ChatGPT Health to Epic, the software that holds more patient data than any other system in the US. Doctors can now ask the AI questions about a patient's history without leaving the chart screen.

NHS watchdog warns AI scribes are getting drug names and diagnoses wrong
Software that listens in on doctor appointments and writes up notes is making serious medical errors that GPs are missing, according to Healthwatch England.

Screen-Free Wearables Are Booming, and AI Is Both the Reason and the Cure
A new wave of trackers collects your health data without demanding your constant attention. AI helped create the problem they're trying to solve, and it may also be what makes them actually useful.

The VC Who Left $4 Billion Behind to Bet Small on AI Biology
Vijay Pande ran one of venture capital's biggest biotech funds. Now he wants to prove that a smaller, AI-native firm can do what the giants cannot: treat biology like engineering.

AI Alone Will Be a Better Doctor Than Your Doctor, a New Paper Argues
A JAMA paper co-authored by a leading oncologist and a tech investor argues that fully autonomous AI will outperform both human doctors and human-AI teams by 2030. Even the sceptics are starting to concede the point.