Over a thousand children visit Boston Children’s Hospital every day. Many get clear diagnoses and begin treatment, but a small subset of pediatric visitors with rare illnesses never get diagnoses at all. That has started to change with the help of AI.
New research from the hospital’s center for rare diseases and the AI company OpenAI reveals that off-the-shelf AI tools can help identify which errors in patients’ genomes might be causing the children’s diseases.
The findings, announced Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine’s AI-focused publication, NEJM AI, show that OpenAI’s o3 Deep Research model helped clarify 18 diagnoses for children who had struggled to find causes for their illnesses and symptoms. — Read More
Daily Archives: June 22, 2026
AI Pauses
A lot of things are always happening. Only one story matters.
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were shut down, by the White House, via an imposition of export controls at 5:23pm on Friday, wreaking all sorts of havoc.
There was then a scramble. Anthropic flew its people out to Washington, where they met with the Trump Administration on Monday, with hopes expressed that this could be quickly resolved.
What caused this? The Trump Administration said it was due to a jailbreak of Fable, which we now know they were told about by Amazon. They called Dario Amodei, who they complain did not take the issue sufficiently seriously. Rather than shutting down the model, he tried to explain why he saw no need to do that. This did not go well. — Read More
Why Amazon hates ‘human-in-the-loop’ AI governanc
Humans tend to be “a little bit precious about humans,” according to Eric Brandwine, distinguished engineer and VP at Amazon Security.
We like to think we are all very good at our jobs, and we have high opinions of ourselves, he explained during a phone interview with The Register. “But when you actually get down to it, humans are not terribly consistent,” Brandwine said.
.. “It is very clear that we have moved from a human-led defense strategy, to a human-in-the-loop defense strategy, to an AI-led defense strategy that’s overseen by humans,” Google Cloud chief operating officer Francis deSouza told reporters during a press conference ahead of Google’s annual Cloud Next shindig in April. “Our model for the future is an agentic fleet that does a lot of the routine cyber security work at a machine pace and then is overseen by humans.” — Read More
A German court ruling could reshape AI search engines forever
For years, search engines have been the messengers of the internet. Now, a German court claimed they’re the authors.
The Munich Regional Court ruled that Google is responsible for false claims made by its AI overview. This whole ordeal came from a case where Google’s AI-generated responses incorrectly tied two publishers to scams and fraud. The companies asked Google to fix the issue, but the tech giant didn’t respond thoroughly. So they sued.
Google’s defense? Their AI results have a disclaimer that content “may contain errors.”
Too bad that didn’t hold up in court. — Read More
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