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OpenAI just signed eight hospital systems the same week two studies said not so fast. Run time: 6:29 In today's episode: OpenAI signs eight major hospital systems NHS deploys AI scribes to every A&E Nature Medicine finds top medical models brittle Kenya trial: AI helped notes, not patients Weill Cornell agents design clinical trials Cardiac digital twin flags non-responders before implant Phil...

Ten years ago an AI pioneer said stop training radiologists. The field grew instead. Run time: 5:40 In today's episode: Hinton's 2016 "stop training radiologists" call has now expired On narrow tasks, AI beats radiologists on average (AUC 0.88) A workforce model projects a ~33% cut in radiologist hours over 5 years But models crater on external data and disagree with each other Huma...

The most powerful AI the US banned last month is back — and biomedical labs want it. Run time: 5:33 In today's episode: US lifts export ban; Fable 5, Mythos 5 back worldwide Anthropic launches Claude Science for pharma research Claude Sonnet 5 ships: near-Opus quality, cheaper FDA clears on-premise brain-tumor MRI AI (Cercare) GE HealthCare clears auto-contouring for radiation therapy Feds reprima...

The most powerful medical AI model came back this week, but not for you. Run time: 6:39 In today's episode: Mythos returns for a hundred federal-list orgs only Fable 5 still dark, seventeen days on FDA fast-tracks AI that writes the radiology report HOPPR drops generative drafting into PowerScribe AI drug discovery declared clinical fact at BIO Canada issues governance rules for radiotherapy AI La...

The F D A just cleared an A I that tells patients how much insulin to take. Run time: 5:57 In today's episode: FDA clears first AI that treats patients ECG AI credited with world's first transplant FDA clears AI for clogged leg arteries GE HealthCare buys Intelerad for 2.3 billion GPT-5 Pro cracks a 3-year immunology puzzle Anthropic's Fable 5 still offline, 2 weeks on TL;DR: The FDA cle...

AI agents beat real doctors on diagnosis this week, then flunked the actual ward. Run time: 6:12 In today's episode: AI agents MIRA and AMIE out-diagnose doctors on test cases Biggest real-world benchmark: top model flunks half of clinical tasks o3 cracks 18 unsolved rare-disease cases Utah lets AI renew prescriptions; oversight thin FDA's cleared-AI list passes 1,500 Hetairos AI out-classifi...

Two AI agents outscored emergency doctors on real cases, then ordered twice the bloodwork. Run time: 5:31 In today's episode: Two AI agents match or beat doctors in Nature Google's AMIE outscores physicians on disease management AI flags small pancreatic tumors on routine CT Joint Commission rolls out first hospital AI governance cert Doctors split on patients reading scans with AI Ambient AI...

Three days after launch, Washington pulled the plug on Claude's two most powerful models. Run time: 5:38 In today's episode: U.S. government forces Anthropic to disable Fable 5, Mythos 5 General chatbots beat dedicated medical AI tools in Nature Medicine SIIM: AI nails the numbers, fumbles the judgment First AI-formulated drug enters a Phase 1 trial Topol: 44 trials, still not standard practi...

An AI just spotted breast cancer in scans taken six years before diagnosis. Run time: 20:02 In today's episode: AI sees breast cancer six years before diagnosis Stanford crowd cooled on AI scribes after debate Most clinicians admit using unapproved AI tools Saudi hospital shows off practical AI at HLTH Europe States move to regulate AI in insurance approvals Stanford and Mayo read tumors from a bl...

Anthropic just handed drug labs a model that designs molecules ten times faster. Run time: 13:30 In today's episode: Ambient AI scribe cuts clinician burnout in randomized trial Philips survey: AI saves sixteen workdays, training lags AIRS SwiftMR wins wider FDA MRI clearance Mount Sinai launches AI cancer trial-matching tool Nature Medicine: AI diagnosis accuracy swings fourfold Topol says every...

Two hundred AI-designed drugs are now in human trials. Not one is approved. Run time: 20:11 In today's episode: Two hundred AI-discovered drugs in trials, zero approved FDA clears Clarius bedside ejection-fraction AI GE HealthCare auto-contouring tool cleared for radiation planning Philips and WellSpan sign seven-year AI imaging alliance Joint Commission launches first hospital AI certification WH...

Mayo Clinic just decided to build its own medical A.I. and own it outright. Run time: 12:40 In today's episode: Mayo Clinic and Microsoft build a frontier medical AI FDA clears Philips Elevate Plus AI ultrasound AI reads cancer from ordinary tissue slides Patients start using AI scribes in the exam room AI arms race is inflating medical billing ARPA-H funds first FDA-authorized clinical AI agents...

Taiwan just put one and a half billion dollars behind robot nurses in real operating rooms. Run time: 20:53 In today's episode: Taiwan and Foxconn launch 1.5 billion dollar clinical AI push Coalition for Health AI ships 8 governance playbooks BostonGene brings 9 AI biomarker abstracts to ASCO Roswell Park flags limits of AI clinical decision support Lancet Digital Health audits fairness metrics in...

ASCO twenty twenty-six opens today, and AI just lifted lung-cancer biomarker testing by twenty-four percent. Run time: 19:27 In today's episode: Tempus Next lifts lung-cancer biomarker testing by twenty-four percent Mayo Clinic brings thirty oncology AI studies to ASCO Sylvester AI reads bone marrow to personalize myeloma therapy Penn Medicine flags AI gaps in patient cancer info NEJM AI publishes...

The FDA just cleared the first AI that reads burn wounds. Run time: 20:51 In today's episode: FDA grants De Novo clearance to burn-reading AI Eli Lilly puts five hundred million into Korean AI lab QIAGEN and NVIDIA team up on AI drug discovery Bristol Myers Squibb rolls Claude to thirty thousand staff Abu Dhabi and J&J launch AI surgical network Artera takes multimodal cancer AI to ASCO Twin H...

FDA cleared does not mean it actually works. Today, the proof. Run time: 16:28 In today's episode: AZmed's X-ray AI clears fractures, effusions, dislocations FDA clears first digital-pathology breast cancer risk tool Radiologist-plus-AI beats AI alone for clot detection Top journal: FDA cleared isn't FDA proven Ultromics raises 55 million for echo AI FDA now clears an AI device every 31...

A saliva test just flagged cancer in under ten minutes. Run time: 20:23 In today's episode: Hong Kong saliva device flags cancer in minutes AI risk scores failed to change transplant talks ARPA-H funds a behavioral-health foundation model Lawsuits hit AI scribes over recorded consent AI avatar calmed cancer patients before treatment METiS TechBio lists on AI nanomedicine bet AI matches MS patients...

Most hospitals running AI agents have no idea if they actually work. Run time: 20:30 In today's episode: Only 59 percent of health orgs track their AI agents Qure.ai Aira deployed across Mozambique's national health system Annalise.ai goes network-wide at Parkway Singapore Nature Medicine: clinical trials for self-updating AI Nature Medicine: the AI co-scientist arrives in the clinic Google H...

Anthropic just put two hundred million dollars into AI for diseases pharma forgot. Run time: 21:22 In today's episode: Anthropic-Gates put $200M into Claude for neglected diseases Frontiers in Science manifesto on adaptive surgical robots Nature Medicine asks is AI actually improving care Companion Nature Medicine piece on meaningful AI evaluation npj Digital Medicine: RL boosts LLM radiology accu...

Roche just paid seven hundred fifty million dollars for an AI pathology company. Run time: 21:10 In today's episode: Roche acquires PathAI in nine-figure pathology AI deal ISMRM 2026 unveils whole-body MRI and AI risk models OpenAI publishes healthcare AI policy blueprint AccurKardia gets FDA clearance for next-gen ECG AI OpenEvidence embeds in Mount Sinai Epic at twelve billion valuation Oracle H...

The week AI came for the clinic. OpenAI just made ChatGPT free for every U.S. doctor. Run time: 11:39 In today's episode: OpenAI ChatGPT for Clinicians free for every U.S. physician Harvard study: o1 outscores two ER attendings on diagnosis FDA opens live data feed inside two cancer trials OBSCORE risk model beats BMI across 18 obesity conditions Würzburg study: patients underreport symptoms to AI...

The FDA just turned on a live data feed inside two cancer trials. Run time: 15:06 In today's episode: FDA pilots live cancer-trial data feed BMI-free obesity-risk model spans 18 conditions Topol slams medical-AI implementation paradox NEJM Catalyst declares the proof era for digital health npj review finds bias in AI medical-education images EU AI Act medical deadline shifts toward 2027 npj DM per...

India's biggest southern state just bought AI to find lung cancer. Run time: 21:45 In today's episode: AstraZeneca and Qure.ai sign Telangana lung-cancer deal Novo Nordisk taps OpenAI for drug discovery Berkeley and UCSF release Pillar imaging vision-language model Ambient AI scribes ease burnout in pragmatic RCT UCSF collaborative quantifies real-world scribe time savings Daiichi Sankyo part...