No. 26 - The Frontier Race Goes Biological
Three frontier labs shipped flagship model updates within days of each other in early September, and for the first time, all three led with a life-sciences capability claim rather than treating biolog…
No. 25 - The Skill Outlives the Model
Google Research just published a framework that quietly undercuts one of the more expensive assumptions in enterprise AI procurement: that better performance requires a bigger, newer model. WikiSkill…
No. 24 -The AI Co-Scientist Reviewers Didn't Reject
Google Research and DeepMind built CoDaS, a six-agent system that takes raw wearable time-series — heart rate, sleep, activity, app usage — and runs the entire biomarker discovery lifecycle end to end…
No. 23 - The Watermark That Flags the Wrong People
Anthropic confirmed on August 14 that future Claude models will embed a statistical watermark in every response, adopting Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text method and joining roughly 190 signatories…
No. 22 - Who Pays When the Diagnosis Is Right?
Recently the Peterson Health Technology Institute convened health system executives, payers, technology vendors, investors, and federal agency staff around a single question: how should clinical AI ge…
No. 21 - Gemini Robotics ER 2 Separates the "Brain" From the "Body" — And Hospitals Are a Plausible Early Beneficiary
On July 30, DeepMind shipped Gemini Robotics ER 2, a standalone "embodied reasoning" model that acts as a high-level planner for robots — parsing continuous video, orchestrating multi-step t…
No. 20 - Frontier models keep getting smarter at science
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 on July 24, its strongest life-sciences model to date: +10.2 points on internal benchmarks for inferring molecular structure from spectroscopy data, +7.7 points on pred…
No. 19 - CMS Is Writing Codes for the Wrong Half of Clinical AI
On July 2, CMS issued its CY2027 OPPS/ASC proposed rule containing the agency's first attempt at a standardized payment structure for clinical algorithms. It creates a new status indicator, O1, an…
No. 18 - The Trillion-Minute Coach
SensorFM_ a wearable foundation model pretrained on over one trillion minutes of sensor data from five million participants, evaluated across 35 discriminative health tasks and — critically — validate…
No. 17 - AI just started grading its own homework.
On June 26, Google Research published its Paper Assistant Tool (PAT), an agentic reviewer already piloted pre-submission at STOC and ICML — over 4,700 manuscripts run through it, with reported gains i…
No. 16 -The Governance Gap Is Now the Deployment Gap
This week's HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum in Boston surfaced a consensus that has been building for months: true AI sustainability in healthcare will require smaller models at the edge and automate…
No. 15 - The Spa That Wants to Replace Your MRI
On June 18, Midjourney — the company that built its reputation generating AI images from text prompts — announced a full-body medical imaging device and a new division, Midjourney Medical. The Midjour…