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AI Agents Turned a Raw AI Model Into an Assistant in 104 Hours
Working without human research advice, four AI agents post-trained a raw 4-billion-parameter model until it matched the developer's official assistant version on average, including on tests they never saw.
700 000 US Clinicians Now Consult an AI Every Month
Logs from one AI tool show its monthly clinician users grew from 355 to over 700 000 in two and a half years, mostly asking about treatment, not diagnosis. Across all AI tools, the real number is likely higher.
69% of Health Apps Ask for Access They Don't Explain
An automated scan of more than 10 000 Android health apps found most requested permissions, like location, camera or microphone, that their own descriptions didn't justify, and few asked for consent before collecting data.
An AI Claims Hundreds of New Proofs. Now What?
OpenAI has released 719 AI-generated mathematical manuscripts, including claimed solutions to longstanding problems. About 42% of its top-line results have formal proofs, but independent scrutiny is still underway.
A Robot Dog Ran a Marathon Using Less Energy per Kilo Than a Human
KAIST's four-legged RAIBO2 finished a full 42.2 km marathon on one battery charge in 4 hours 20 minutes, with a third of its battery to spare and about three times the range of other quadruped robots.
