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PaperBanana: Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists Despite rapid advances in autonomous AI scientists powered by language models, generating publication-ready illustrations remains a labor-intensive bottleneck in the research workflow. To lift this bu...

Google drops another #AI #AcademicAI strong research tool: PaperBanana. An agentic system that generates publication ready academic figures directly from methodology descriptions. No manual diagramming or Figma needed. Just your method section and caption.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.23265

Disclosing the undisclosable: Section 112(a) challenges for artificial intelligence patents Sasha S. Rao and Todd M. Hopfinger of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC discuss challenges in meeting patent law's disclosure requirements for inventions involving artificial intelligence, particu...

#AIPatents #HealthcareInnovation #LegalChallenges PTAB rulings emphasize disclosure hurdles for AI patents in healthcare due to neural network opacity.

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A Novel Approach to Overseeing the Clinical Application of Generative AI This Viewpoint discusses current regulatory frameworks governing the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in health care and proposes an alternative oversight system.

#AIGovernance #ClinicalAI #FDARegulation New framework proposes treating generative AI as novel intelligence for clinical oversight, modeled on human certifications. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

#AIDrugDiscovery #CKDAnemia #ClinicalTrials AI-driven CKD anemia candidate ISM4808 completes first human dosing in Phase I trial, advancing from discovery to clinic rapidly. markets.ft.com/data/announc...

Matching clinicians with clinical trials using AI - Nature Health Using data involving 24,984 clinicians and 5,210 trials, an AI model integrates information from medical claims, unstructured trial documents and historical enrolment relationships to suggest optimal ...

#ClinicalTrials #AIMatching #HealthcareAI DocTr AI framework matches clinicians to trials using multimodal data, improving accuracy and fairness. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

NVIDIA on X: "AI is accelerating every aspect of healthcare — from radiology and drug discovery to medical device manufacturing and new treatment methods enabled by digital twins of the human body. Our latest “State of AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences” report shares how teams are moving https://t.co/VJb23cfUns" / X AI is accelerating every aspect of healthcare — from radiology and drug discovery to medical device manufacturing and new treatment methods enabled by digital twins of the human body. Our latest “State of AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences” report shares how teams are moving https://t.co/VJb23cfUns

#AIHealthcare #LifeSciences #NVIDIARport NVIDIA report shows AI advancing radiology, drug discovery, and digital twins in healthcare. x.com/nvidia/statu...

Navigating the complexity of AI adoption in psychotherapy by identifying key facilitators and barriers - npj Mental Health Research npj Mental Health Research - Navigating the complexity of AI adoption in psychotherapy by identifying key facilitators and barriers

#PsychotherapyAI #MentalHealthTech #AdoptionBarriers Study identifies facilitators and barriers for AI in psychotherapy, emphasizing training and privacy. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Surprising gender biases in GPT We present eight experiments exploring gender biases in GPT. Initially, GPT was asked to generate demographics of a potential writer of fourty phrases…

#AISafety - LLMs lack morality even with guardrails. New paper finds that GPT can show unexpected gender bias, not only in stereotypes but also in moral dilemma judgments. Important reminder that AI fairness issues can be subtle, implicit, and context dependent. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2 - Nature Evo 2 is an artificial intelligence-based biological foundation model trained on 9 trillion DNA base pairs spanning all domains of life that predicts functional properties from genomic sequences and p...

in Nature: Open access Evo 2, a 40B-param foundation model trained on 9T DNA bases, predicts variants & designs genomes across life domains. Zero-shot pathogenicity, interpretable features, chromatin control—open-sourced for biodesign! #AIinBiology #Genomics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Accuracy, Efficiency, and usability of a Semi-Automated SMART on FHIR venous thromboembolism risk assessment App: A randomised crossover simulation study Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is the leading cause of maternal death. Current VTE risk assessment (VTERA) tools often require manual data entry, which …

#IJMI open access paper: SMART on FHIR improved postpartum VTE risk assessment in randomized crossover simulation. Semi-automated app increased accurate risk scores (63%→87%), improved prophylaxis recommendations (79%→91%), reduced time and data entry burden www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

LLM-assisted systematic review of large language models in clinical medicine - Nature Medicine A large language model (LLM)-powered systematic review of over 1,000 studies revealed that, despite the growth of medical research involving LLMs, a majority of studies do not involve real-world clini...

New Nature Medicine analysis maps 4,609 clinical LLM evaluation studies (2022–Sep 2025). Only 1,048 used real patient data and just 19 were RCTs; most were simulated or exam style. Evidence remains thin for adoption. #AIGovernance doi.org/10.1038/s415...

‘Piloting’ AI Tools Isn’t Cool Anymore Companies used to get a stock boost from touting AI pilots. Today, the term has become a sign that they might be falling behind.

Significant shift in corporate strategy & investor sentiment, "pilot" now is poorly viewed, companies have run small-scale tests that never scale into meaningful business value. Earnings calls now use "proof of concept" emphasizing a path toward commitment. Where is ROI? www.wsj.com/tech/ai/pilo...

Canada’s AI Crossroads: Sovereignty, Scale, Adoption, and Trust Canada is at a strategic inflection point in artificial intelligence. In a recent interview, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Evan Solomon rejected the premise that Canada mu...

Canada stands at a pivotal strategic inflection point in AI. A national AI strategy consultation drew over 11,300 inputs from Canadians—the largest such engagement in Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada's history, revealing a strong consensus views. www.linkedin.com/pulse/canada...

As literacy rates lag, a pediatric hospital is screening for reading ability | CNN For some young children in Columbus, Ohio, reading assessments don’t start in the kindergarten classroom — they happen first in the doctor’s office.

Literacy screenings, not typically conducted in medical settings, are now being done at pediatric care centers and providing support resources, recognizing reading’s importance for a child’s development. www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/h...

Oura launches a proprietary AI model focused on women's health | TechCrunch The model supports questions spanning the full reproductive health spectrum, from early menstrual cycles through menopause.

Oura launches a proprietary AI model focused on women’s health techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/o...

The FDA creates a quicker path for gene therapies The Food and Drug Administration aims to evaluate treatments for rare diseases based on plausible evidence that they would work — without requiring a clinical trial first.

FDA new policy for new treatments for rare diseases based on evidence for a "plausible mechanism" for treatment would work. aims to speed new technologies like gene-editing that are so rare that it would be difficult if not impossible to conduct a traditional study first. www.npr.org/2026/02/23/n...

GitHub - abhigyanpatwari/GitNexus: GitNexus: The Zero-Server Code Intelligence Engine - GitNexus is a client-side knowledge graph creator that runs entirely in your browser. Drop in a GitHub rep... GitNexus: The Zero-Server Code Intelligence Engine - GitNexus is a client-side knowledge graph creator that runs entirely in your browser. Drop in a GitHub repo or ZIP file, and get an intera...

GitNexus turns any GitHub repo into an in browser interactive knowledge graph plus AI chat. It runs a 4 pass pipeline (structure, Tree sitter AST parsing, dependency resolution, call graph) with zero server and no code leaving your device. 100% free and open source github.com/abhigyanpatw...

A comprehensive large-scale biomedical knowledge graph for AI-powered data-driven biomedical research - Nature Machine Intelligence This study presents iKraph, a large-scale biomedical knowledge graph built using an award-winning natural language processing pipeline with expert-level accuracy. Using probabilistic semantic reasonin...

iKraph (Nature Machine Intelligence, 2025) builds a large-scale biomedical knowledge graph from all PubMed abstracts using a LitCoin-winning NLP pipeline. It identified ~1,200 COVID drug candidates early, with one-third later validated. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

PageIndex Leads Financial QA Benchmark We introduce Mafin2.5, which is built based on PageIndex, with a 98.7% accuracy rate on the finance industry question-answering benchmark.

A new “vectorless RAG” approach, PageIndex, replaces chunking & embeddings with a hierarchical table-of-contents tree. model navigates sections step-by-step; reports 98.7% accuracy on FinanceBench, outperforming traditional RAG. Tradeoff: higher cost & latency. #AIResearch pageindex.ai/blog/Mafin2.5

Anthropic introduces a Persona Selection Model: AI assistants do not have fixed personalities but probabilistically select human like personas shaped by training data, prompts, and alignment tuning. A new lens on AI behavior and safety.
alignment.anthropic.com/2026/psm | #AIPersonhood #AIGoverance

Grok, Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT are all still in the race. The leaderboard keeps changing weekly. The open source may have a big impact. Over the next year it will clearer which strategy(Cloud vs On premise ) & LLM makes sense for which use case, and which company is the first to run out of money.

Google DeepMind paper on Pragmatic #AIpersonhood -“person” as a configurable bundle of obligations, not a metaphysical status. Highlights risks (dark patterns, dehumanization) and sketches identity plus sanction based accountability architectures arxiv.org/abs/2510.26396

Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents Today's AI systems have human-designed, fixed architectures and cannot autonomously and continuously improve themselves. The advance of AI could itself be automated. If done safely, that would acceler...

Recursive self improvement is the real test of an AI explosion. Darwin Gödel Machine, AlphaEvolve, and Meta’s self rewarding models show rapid gains, but mostly narrow optimization, not self rewriting intelligence. Acceleration is real, takeoff is not. arxiv.org/abs/2505.22954 #AI

Top enlisted Marine issues emotional appeal to ‘reach out to somebody’ Sgt. Maj. of the Marine Corps Carlos Ruiz asked Marines struggling with mental health to reach out, because Marines are “ready to help.”

Video by Marine Sgt Maj Carlos Ruiz urges Marines to support one another &seek help when struggling. He stressed asking for help is strength & there is no wrong door to walk through because others stand ready to assist. Leadership means ensuring your team supported taskandpurpose.com/military-lif...

Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks 3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.

Google Gemini 3.1 Pro just released has passed other LLMs on Humannity's Last Exam. blog.google/innovation-a...

Progress!

New 100 page paper on Agentic Reasoning for LLMs from researchers at U Illinois, Meta, Amazon, Google DeepMind, UCSD, and Yale argues true AI autonomy requires iterative planning, memory, tool use, and feedback loops beyond chain of thought. #AIResearch
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.12538

Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.

AI firms face same dilemma as social platforms: when do private user conversations signal a public safety risk? WSJ report details internal concerns raised months before a Canada shooting suspect drew attention. How to balance Privacy vs public protection? #AIGovernance www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Utah’s AI sandbox is piloting AI prescription renewals. Doctronic may renew non controlled maintenance refills previously prescribed, with identity checks and clinician escalation. Findings may inform scope. #HealthAI commerce.utah.gov/ai/agreement...