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Medical journals, law reviews, and literary magazines are grappling with AI-generated submissions bostonglobe.com

Pompeii reimagined with Nano Banana 2 in Google Earth. | Image: Google Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI.

Now a text prompt is all it takes to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth's satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery, like these images generated by Digital Digging's Henk van Ess that show "refugees near the Mexican border" and a bomb crater near a hospital in Gaza.

Qureight just raised $20 million to fix how to read a chest scan. The Cambridge company builds AI imaging tools for lung and heart clinical trials, and its Series B The post Qureight Raises $20M for AI-powered Lung and Heart Clinical Trials appeared first on Ventureburn.

There is no point competing in isolation. There are so many benefits to be had, in manufacturing, healthcare, research and governance Zheng Zeguang is the Chinese ambassador to the UK Artificial intelligence is widely regarded as one of the defining technologies of our time.

The program aims to support chronic disease research, speed up drug development, and develop more durable materials.

Administration will also overhaul how US government funds federal research by supporting individual scientists and AI over universities The US will spend $5bn to tackle longstanding scientific problems across multiple fields using AI, ⁠the Trump administration said in a statement on Wednesday.

Burger King’s AI assistant Patty has been brought in to ‘support’ the human workers – but some say it is doing the precise opposite. It was the most curt drive-thru greeting I had ever heard.

OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B TechCrunch

In Abu Dhabi, the largest emirate in the United Arab Emirates, AI is as much a part of daily life as reporting a pothole or making a doctor's appointment or paying a parking ticket. because AI does all that for you.

SensorFM, a wearable health foundation model from Google Research, Google DeepMind, and university collaborators. We walk through its ViT-1D masked-autoencoder backbone, pretrained on more than one trillion minutes of unlabeled sensor signals from 5,000,000 consented participants.

Data: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Map: Danielle Alberti / Axios Ohio, Oklahoma, Arizona, South Carolina and Minnesota have sustained some of the deepest losses in Obamacare coverage since beefed-up federal subsidies expired this year, according to state-by-state federal data.

Learn how GPT-5.5 Instant improves ChatGPT’s health and wellness responses with stronger reasoning, better context, clearer communication, and physician-informed evaluations.

Digital Decade 2026: eGovernment Benchmark 2026 dumimar Wed, 06/17/2026 - 09:07 The eGovernment Benchmark 2026 assesses availability and functionality of a selection of digital public service websites and portals across nine life events.

Candid Health Raises Fresh Capital To Modernise Healthcare Billing Artificial intelligence health startup Candid Health has secured $120 million in Series D financing led by Sixth Street Growth with other The post Candid Health Raises $120M to Expand AI-Powered Healthcare Revenue Platform appeared…

NeuroVFM is a generalist neuroimaging foundation model from the University of Michigan, trained on 5.24M clinical MRI and CT volumes. Its Vol-JEPA base extends I-JEPA and V-JEPA to volumetric medical imaging, learning brain anatomy and pathology without radiology-report labels.

Since ChatGPT brought generative AI into the mainstream in late 2022, adoption has accelerated across industries, from healthcare and logistics to financial services and energy. But as the opportunity grows, so does scrutiny of AI's environmental and social costs.

Nigerian startup SereniMind allows users to receive personalised wellness recommendations from its AI chatbot, and reach out to qualified therapists in a secure and supportive environment.

The funding will also support phase III trials and commercialization of its oral glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) small-molecule drug candidate, MDR-001.

Founded in Soweto and backed largely with internally generated revenue and founder reinvestment, Khoi Tech initially built its reputation through consumer devices such as the Khoi Afripods true wireless earphones and the Khoi Afriwatch1 smartwatch.

The pan-African Bubble AI is an AI-powered education and career execution platform built to help users move from career uncertainty to clarity, preparation, and employment.

Shawn Rosemarin, Global VP of Research & Development, Customer Engineering, Everpure and Pradeep Bandaru, Head of Platforms & AI Workflows at Sanofi join Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec to discuss the way better data can help the pharmaceutical industry develop new drugs. (Source: Bloomberg)

At UnitedHealth Group Inc., artificial intelligence reads aloud summaries of medical charts as nurses drive to patients’ homes. It listens to millions of customer calls to find the causes of complaints. One trial even has AI agents calling doctors’ offices to schedule appointments for patients.

Beth Tschida, who became Jamf CEO in May after serving as CTO and as interim CEO, is the first woman to lead the company in its near 25-year history. I spoke with her this week at the London Jamf Nation event, where the company introduced its new AI Governance solution.

The finance minister announced public service layoffs, celebrated AI, and took swipes at Labour and NZ First in her pre-budget speech. Nicola Willis chose the clubrooms of the National Hockey Centre in Rosedale on Auckland’s North Shore as the location for her pre-budget speech.