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Medical AI Outpaces Safety Checks, Researchers Warn
Artificial intelligence can now match physicians on clinical reasoning tasks, but researchers say strong benchmark scores are no substitute for rigorous safety evaluation and governance before these tools reach real patients.
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Anthropic Embeds Claude Into Blender, Adobe, Ableton and More
Anthropic released nine connectors on April 28 that embed Claude inside professional creative software like Blender, Photoshop and Ableton. Three art and design schools — RISD, Ringling and Goldsmiths — are named launch academic partners, and all connectors are free to access.
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OpenAI Brings GPT-5.5 and Codex to AWS Amazon Bedrock
OpenAI and AWS launched three new offerings on April 28: GPT-5.5 and other frontier models on Amazon Bedrock, Codex running through Bedrock infrastructure, and a new Managed Agents product for deploying multi-step AI agents inside AWS environments. All three are in limited preview.
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OpenAI Releases Symphony, an Open-Source Coding Agent Orchestrator
OpenAI has open-sourced Symphony, an agent orchestrator that hooks into issue trackers like Linear so coding agents pull and complete tasks autonomously. It's the company's answer to a bottleneck it hit internally: human engineers running out of attention, not agents running out of capability.
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Google Agents CLI Brings AI Agent Deployment to One Command
Google has launched Agents CLI in Agent Platform, a command-line tool that lets developers — and the AI coding assistants they already use — build, evaluate and deploy production-grade AI agents to Google Cloud without manually wiring together infrastructure.
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UC San Diego Health Performs First West Coast AI Spine Surgery
UC San Diego Health has become the first health system on the West Coast to perform spine surgery using a new AI-powered robotic platform. The technology integrates artificial intelligence, custom implants and robotic guidance into a single system designed to improve precision and patient recovery.
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xAI Launches Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0 via API
xAI has launched grok-voice-think-fast-1.0, its new flagship voice agent model, available immediately via API. The model tops a leading voice-agent benchmark and is already powering Starlink's phone sales and support line — with a pricing model that makes it unusually accessible to student developers.
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New AI Chatbot Uses Doctor-Approved Flowcharts to Guide Self-Triage
Engineers at UC San Diego have created a new kind of medical chatbot that walks people through their symptoms using trusted doctor-designed flowcharts. The AI tool aims to cut unnecessary ER visits, speed care for serious cases and give health systems more control over the advice patients receive.
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Binghamton Launches AI Education and Ethics Hub for Public Good
Binghamton University is teaming up with SUNY partners on a three-year AI education initiative and a new center focused on trustworthy, community-minded AI. The effort aims to prepare students for an AI-shaped workforce while putting ethics and public benefit at the core.
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xAI Launches Grok Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech APIs
xAI has released standalone speech-to-text and text-to-speech APIs built on the same infrastructure powering Grok Voice, Tesla vehicles and Starlink support. The pricing — $0.10/hour for transcription and $4.20 per million characters for voice — undercuts every major rival by a wide margin.