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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.
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New Tool Reveals How Students Really Use AI to Write
As AI becomes a constant companion in college writing, a new tool called DraftMarks makes the hidden collaboration between humans and machines visible on the page. The open-source system could help students, teachers and readers rethink what authentic writing and learning look like in an AI era.
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AI Tool Predicts Which Sleep Apnea Patients Benefit From CPAP
Mount Sinai scientists have created a machine learning model that predicts whether CPAP therapy will raise or lower heart and stroke risk in people with obstructive sleep apnea. The work could help doctors tailor treatment instead of relying on a one-size-fits-all approach.
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AI ‘Digital Twin’ Links Loneliness and Stress to Diabetes Risk
A new AI “digital twin” model suggests that loneliness, insomnia and poor mental health can dramatically raise a person’s risk of type 2 diabetes. The work could help doctors spot danger earlier and design more equitable prevention programs.
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New AI Tech Aims to Speed Drug Development
University of Virginia researchers have created a trio of artificial intelligence tools that design drug molecules for moving, flexible protein targets. The open-access platform could help scientists worldwide develop better treatments faster and at lower cost.
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Students Trust AI Chatbots Less Once They Know It’s AI, Study Finds
A new University of Cincinnati study suggests nursing students often prefer AI chatbot answers to a professor’s — until they realize the response came from a machine. The findings highlight how trust, not just accuracy, may shape the future of AI in higher education.
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Meta AI Releases TRIBE v2 Brain Activity Prediction Model
Meta's Fundamental AI Research team has released TRIBE v2, a foundation model that predicts how the human brain responds to images, audio and language. Trained on over 700 subjects and more than 1,000 hours of fMRI data, it's now freely available to academic researchers worldwide.
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AI Scribes Ease Doctors’ Paperwork, Modestly Cut EHR Time
A new multisite study finds that AI scribes trim doctors’ time in electronic health records and clinical documentation while slightly increasing patient visits. Researchers say the real promise may lie in how these tools reshape the way clinicians deliver care.