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Chief Clinical Informatics @ BIDMC & Faculty Harvard Medical School, Chief of @DCINetwork.org #MedicalInformatics #AI #DigitalHealth #MobileHealth #LearningHealthSystems
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Call for Submissions – Patient-Powered Digital Health 2026 Conference. Papers will be in PubMed-indexed proceedings. The conference brings together patients, innovators, industry, healthcare providers, thought leaders. Due March 10, 2026. Early discount open now www.dcinetwork.org/patients2026...
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Congress passed the FY 2026 Labor HHS Education bill, reaffirming NIH funded biomedical research as a national priority, preserving full research cost recovery, supporting the health workforce, and extending key clinical and telehealth provisions.
#NIHFunding #AAMC
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AAMC Statement on Passage of FY 2026 Labor-HHS Appropriations Bill
The AAMC applauds Congress for passing the Appropriations package.
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February 4, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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Congress moved on FY 2026 NIH budget . funds NIH at $48.7B, preserves full indirect cost recovery, blocks expanded multi year funding mechanisms, maintains the current Institute and Center structure with no reorganization.
#NIHFunding
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House and Senate appropriators endorse NIH budget increase, reject Trump’s proposed cuts
Congressional appropriations committees offered a near-total rebuke of President Trump’s proposed downsizing and reshaping of the NIH.
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February 4, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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October 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Moltbook is an experimental social platform designed for AI agents rather than human users, autonomous systems can post, comment, and interact with one another. Read what Moltbook actually demonstrates & why it matters for the future of AI oversight and trust. www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-a...
When AI Agents Build Their Own Society: What Moltbook Actually Reveals
Over the past week, an experimental platform called Moltbook has prompted a wave of viral commentary, fear-laden narratives, and science-fiction metaphors about artificial intelligence “going rogue.” ...
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February 2, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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Reuters reports the proposed Nvidia OpenAI mega deal is stalled and was never finalized. Nvidia is now signaling a smaller equity investment while maintaining collaboration, highlighting investor scrutiny of AI compute financing at extreme scale.
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#AI #OpenAI #Nvidia
Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI has stalled, WSJ reports
Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI to help it train and run its latest artificial-intelligence models has stalled after some inside the chip giant expressed doubts about the deal, th...
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January 31, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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#AIinResearch #MedicalAI #ResearchIntegrity JAMA editorial highlights AI’s role in research workflows and stresses need for transparency and guidance to maintain integrity. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
AI Use in Research and the Need for Continued Guidance
As artificial intelligence (AI) use proliferates, these tools have become an integral part of daily life for many people, including scientists. AI tools can review text to provide citations and optimi...
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January 30, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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#BreastCancer #AI MASAI Sweden RCT (>100k): radiologist+AI vs 2 radiologists for screening mammography. AI led to 12% fewer cancers diagnosed in the next 2 years and 44% fewer reads, with fewer aggressive/advanced cancers. doi.org/10.1016/S014...
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January 30, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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#AlzheimersAI #Neuroimaging #MLDiagnosis ML enhances non-amnestic Alzheimer's diagnosis via MRI and clinical features for better accuracy, demonstrating superior performance over standard methods in identifying underdiagnosed Alzheimer's variants. arxiv.org/abs/2601.15530
Machine learning-enhanced non-amnestic Alzheimer's disease diagnosis from MRI and clinical features
Alzheimer's disease (AD), defined as an abnormal buildup of amyloid plaques and tau tangles in the brain can be diagnosed with high accuracy based on protein biomarkers via PET or CSF analysis. Howeve...
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January 30, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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#AI #Healthcare #PublicHealth Guardian investigation reveals Google AI Overviews deliver misleading medical advice on cancer and liver tests, citing YouTube over medical sites, posing public health risks.
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How the ‘confident authority’ of Google AI Overviews is putting public health at risk
Experts say tool can give ‘completely wrong’ medical advice which could put users at risk of serious harm
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January 29, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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#AIinHealthcare #LungCancerDetection #NHSInnovation Healthcare AI advances with NHS England testing tools for faster lung cancer diagnosis, focusing on early intervention and reduced latency to improve survival and clinical efficiency. www.england.nhs.uk/2026/01/nhs-...
NHS England » NHS launches trailblazing AI and robot pilot to spot lung cancer sooner alongside screening programme set to tackle cancer inequalities
NHS England » NHS launches trailblazing AI and robot pilot to spot lung cancer sooner alongside screening programme set to tackle cancer inequalities
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January 29, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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Paper argues that a common failure mode in clinical AI is not only “model quality,” but “deployment strategy.” Health systems often select a model based on aggregate offline validation and then deploy it widely. Conceals context dependent performance variation www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...
Multi Armed Bandit Based Adaptive Model Selection for Clinical AI Governance An Infrastructure Approach to Safer AI Use in U.S. Healthcare
Background Clinical artificial intelligence systems are increasingly embedded in routine care delivery, including high risk decision contexts. Despite widespread adoption, most clinical AI systems are...
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January 29, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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#AIGenomics #MedicalResearch #DeepMind
DeepMind's AlphaGenome AI predicts DNA regulation; aids disease insights, drug targets; used by 3K scientists for cancer/obesity research.
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AI model from Google DeepMind reads recipe for life in our DNA
It could transform our understanding of why diseases develop and the medicines needed to treat them, says researchers.
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January 29, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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#AIHealthcare #EHRInnovation #ClinicalEfficiency
Stanford and Penn launch custom AI chatbots for EHR querying; reduce admin time, tested by hundreds of clinicians for better patient prep.
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Why some hospitals are making their own ChatGPTs for patient records
Some large health systems are building their own AI-powered chatbots to make it easier for their clinicians to query patients' health records.
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January 29, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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🚨 India reports a new Nipah virus outbreak in West Bengal. 5 healthcare workers infected, 1 critical. Thailand & Nepal are screening travelers. Nipah spreads from animals to humans & has a high fatality rate (40-75%).

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Nipah virus: Some Asia airports screen passengers after outbreak in India
Airports in Thailand and Nepal have begun screening passengers from West Bengal.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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#AI #LLM #Reasoning New arXiv shows top reasoning models behave like internal debate teams. Steering a “conversational surprise” feature (SAE 30939) doubled Countdown accuracy from 27.1% to 54.8%, boosting self checking and perspective shifts. arxiv.org/abs/2601.10825
Reasoning Models Generate Societies of Thought
Large language models have achieved remarkable capabilities across domains, yet mechanisms underlying sophisticated reasoning remain elusive. Recent reasoning models outperform comparable instruction-...
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January 25, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Finland’s Vastaamo breach exposed deeply sensitive online therapy notes of ~33,000 patients after a hack and extortion scheme. The case underscores critical risks in digital mental health data security and governance.
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#CyberSecurity #MentalHealth #DataPrivacy
He called himself an ‘untouchable hacker god’. But who was behind the biggest crime Finland has ever known?
How would you feel if your therapist’s notes – your darkest thoughts and deepest feelings – were exposed to the world? For 33,000 Finnish people, that became a terrifying reality, with deadly conseque...
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January 25, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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South Korea enacted the world’s first comprehensive AI framework law, setting national safety, transparency, and accountability standards. Act regulates high impact and generative AI, mandates disclosure, risk management, oversight, promoting innovation and trust. cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/u...
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January 25, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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#AI #Greenland Drew Horn, former aide to VP Mike Pence & CEO of GreenMet, is leading a multi-billion-dollar effort to build a 1.5-gigawatt facility on Greenland's southwest coast - a project that would rank among the largest data centers on the planet if completed. www.techbuzz.ai/articles/ex-...
Ex-Trump Official Plans 1.5GW Greenland Data Center
Former Trump aide Drew Horn targets massive Arctic facility amid AI infrastructure race
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January 23, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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Nature Genetics commentary outlines how AI co scientists are emerging as credible research collaborators. - domain specific data, robust infrastructure, interdisciplinary standards are essential x.com/strnr/status...

#AI #StatisticalGenetics #AICoScientists #ComputationalBiology #Genomics
Stephen Turner 🦋 @stephenturner.us on X: "Nature Genetics: Engineering AI co-scientists for statistical genetics applications https://t.co/2W9TWVYevH 🧬💻🧪 read free: https://t.co/31Rr2AUQFU https://t.co/6a0bj4AFA8" / X
Nature Genetics: Engineering AI co-scientists for statistical genetics applications https://t.co/2W9TWVYevH 🧬💻🧪 read free: https://t.co/31Rr2AUQFU https://t.co/6a0bj4AFA8
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January 22, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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The Middle East is rapidly transitioning from a phase of ambitious vision to one of industrial-scale velocity. We are witnessing a "megawatt race" for compute infrastructure, evidenced by massive investmentshttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-vision-velocity-strategic-evolution-ai-middle-yuri-2ei9e
January 22, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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On tonight's All Things Considered on NPR, I discuss patients' use of AI for health. While there are risks, many patients benefit.
Overall, I favor tools that guide patients through their symptoms (with iterative Q's & A's) rather than general tools like GPT or Gemini.
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The benefits of AI in health care outweigh potential hazards, many experts say
ChatGPT Health is OpenAI's foray into medicine, and so far, it gets high marks from both a cancer patient and a leading doctor. But there are worries it could be misused.
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January 20, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
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January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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#AustraliaAI #AIOpportunity #AIEconomy Generative AI could add up to A$115B p.a. by 2030 & Australia’s strengths in applications, data and AI datacentres position it for global impact. Strategic upskilling, infrastructure, governance essential msftstories.thesourcemediaassets.com/sites/66/202... 
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January 19, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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#ScientificDiscovery #AI4Science #LLMs #Creativity Survey maps LLM scientific ideation into 5 method families: knowledge grounding (RAG, graphs), prompt steering, inference-time search, multi-agent collaboration, and fine-tuning.: balance novelty with empirical soundness. arxiv.org/abs/2511.07448
Large Language Models for Scientific Idea Generation: A Creativity-Centered Survey
Scientific idea generation lies at the heart of scientific discovery and has driven human progress-whether by solving unsolved problems or proposing novel hypotheses to explain unknown phenomena. Unli...
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January 19, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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#MlSky #LLM #RAG Apple & U Edinburgh introduce CLaRa, RAG framework that unifies retrieval and generation in a continuous latent space. By enabling end to end differentiable retrieval, CLaRa improves efficiency, reduces context length, & outperforms standard RAG approaches. arxiv.org/abs/2511.18659
CLaRa: Bridging Retrieval and Generation with Continuous Latent Reasoning
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge but still suffers from long contexts and disjoint retrieval-generation optimization. In this work, we...
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January 19, 2026 at 4:06 AM