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A new study from Harvard Medical School indicates that AI can outperform doctors in initial assessments in emergency care, according to The Guardian. The study, published in the journal Science, compared AI tools with doctors in triage situations — the process in which patients are sorted and prioritized, and where quick decisions must be made based on limited information. The results show that the AI system identified the correct or nearly correct diagnosis in 67% of cases, compared to 50% to 55% percent for doctors. When more detailed patient data was available, the AI’s accuracy increased to 82%, while the doctors’ accuracy ranged from 70% to 79%. The AI, based on OpenAI’s model o1, also performed better when it came to developing treatment plans. In a test using clinical cases, the AI achieved 89% accuracy, while doctors using traditional tools such as search engines reached 34%. However, the researchers emphasized that the results do not mean AI can outright replace doctors. The s

Welcome to AI Insider’s The Week Ahead in AI. See the key developments and events we’re watching May 3- 9. Weekend AI News Briefs AI Facial Recognition Oversight Lagging Far Behind Technology, Watchdogs Warn According to The Guardian, Britain’s biometric watchdogs warned that the rapid expansion of AI-powered facial recognition technology by police and retailers is […]

Australia’s financial regulator has warned financial firms that AI agent governance and assurance practices are poorly governed. The warning comes as banks and superannuation trustees expand AI in internal and customer-facing operations. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority said it conducted a targeted review of selected large regulated entities in late 2025 to assess AI adoption […] The post AI agent governance takes focus as regulators flag control gaps appeared first on AI News.

From Salt Lake City to New York City, parents are demanding more sway over the digital tools that schools give children.

Hybrid work has settled into everyday reality, but the technology that supports it is still catching up. As collaboration becomes more distributed, organizations are reassessing how meeting spaces, digital tools, and infrastructure actually support the way people work. What’s emerging is a shift from fragmented solutions toward more intentional, integrated collaboration environments that are designed to perform, scale, and adapt over time.  Three trends in collaboration technology stand out. Meeting rooms are becoming fully integrated IT assets. Artificial intelligence is shifting from promise to practical necessity. And sustainability is returning as a strategic priority, grounded in data and long-term efficiency. Together, these forces are redefining how collaboration technology is designed, deployed, and evaluated.  Meeting rooms become managed digital environments  Meeting spaces have evolved from static rooms into active, connected environments. In hybrid organizations, they are w

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When Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc got COVID despite being vaccinated and boosted, he tried to fund research for a better solution. What he quickly found out? You can’t just write a check in biotech. Regulators require a commercialization plan, and philanthropy doesn’t move science through clinical trials or get you a license on university IP. Now, he’s bootstrapping a cancer drug platform targeting pancreatic cancer, a disease that […]

Science rarely produces identical outcomes. Mistaking this for failure turns caution into an excuse for inaction A new set of studies out this month suggests that as many as half of all results published in reputable journals in the social sciences can’t be replicated by independent analysis. This is part of a long-running problem across many research fields – most visibly in the social sciences and psychology, though concerns have also been raised in areas of biomedical research. The latest work is a seven-year project called Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (Score), which has now published three studies looking at 3,900 social science papers. It found that newer papers, and those published in journals requiring extensive sharing of underlying data, were more likely to be reproduced. Separately, medical research faces its own constraints: differing patient caseloads and limited sample sizes mean that, in practice, it can resemble the social sciences more than lab