Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Freenome said its updated blood-based colorectal cancer screening test met its primary and secondary endpoints in a pivotal validation study. Called SimpleScreen CRC, the new test showed improvement over an earlier version, particularly in detecting…
Frontiers Research Highlight AI and digital tools can deepen geographic disadvantages as easily as they erase them — unless strategy leads the way. Nataliya Langburd Wright July 14, 2026 Reading Time: 7 min Topics Frontiers An MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management. More in this series Michael Glenwood Gibbs/theispot.com…
, so it’s basically free.” I’ve said that, you’ve probably said that, and it’s the kind of claim that sounds true until someone measures it. So I measured it. The box is “ardi” — one openSUSE machine with a single RTX 3090 (24 GB). On it I ran a controlled benchmark: three local models served by…
One of the most fascinating problems that a computer scientist may be lucky enough to encounter is a complex sociotechnical problem in a field going through the process of digital transformation. For me, that was fish counting. Recently, I worked as a consultant in a subdomain of environmental science focused on counting fish that pass…
Four years into the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s review of Zyn nicotine pouches, and not long before the agency approved them for sale, an FDA toxicologist ran some informal tests in her kitchen that led her to question whether the agency truly understood the addictive product it was about to green-light. Christy Leppanen worked…
U.S. venture capital deal value hit $412.7 billion in the first half of 2026, nearly 30% more than investors put to work in all of last year — and a small cluster of giant artificial intelligence rounds accounted for almost the entire jump. That’s according to the second-quarter PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report released Wednesday night. Artificial…
The era has arrived where your phone or computer can understand the objects of an image, thanks to technologies like YOLO and SAM. Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM) can instantly identify objects in images and separate them without needing to be trained on specific images. It’s like a digital magician, able to understand each object…
Every Eval Ever (EEE) and Hugging Face Community Evals are now intercompatible. We enable cross-posting and interpreting evaluation results, while linking to open models, leaderboards, and a unified standardized metadata store. EEE launched in February 2026 as a project of the EvalEval Coalition, the first cross-institutional effort to improve how AI evaluation results get reported…
Across science, engineering, and finance, many of the most important risks come from low-likelihood, high-impact events. Estimating the probability of these events with brute-force Monte Carlo sampling—running a model repeatedly with randomly drawn inputs to estimate the probability of rare outcomes—can require an excessive volume of model iterations, especially when each sample comes from an…
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The savings generated by a value-based care pilot in traditional Medicare continue to increase, even as it’s set to sunset at the end of this year. ACO REACH generated $2.5 billion in gross savings in…