Brittany Trang

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Health Care Business Reporter at STAT

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OpenAI leaps into health care with AI benchmark to evaluate models

3 days ago | statnews.com | Brittany Trang

OpenAI on Monday released a large set of data for evaluating how well large language models answer questions related to health care. Experts lauded the open-source data and detailed evaluation rubrics, calling them “unprecedented” in scale and breadth. The project, HealthBench, marks OpenAI’s first foray into health care applications of AI, outside of external partnerships.
OpenAI leaps into health care with AI benchmark to evaluate models

3 days ago | flipboard.com | Brittany Trang

6 hours agoWorried about ChatGPT saving your chat data? Don't be - just click this one buttonI change this ChatGPT setting for almost everything - even mundane chats - to protect my privacy. Here's why. ChatGPT can go far beyond writing an …6 hours agoInventWood is about to mass-produce wood that’s stronger than steelIt sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but it actually comes from a lab in Maryland.
How well do ‘AI scientists’ actually work? I tested one.

1 week ago | statnews.com | Brittany Trang

You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s AI Prognosis newsletter, our subscriber-exclusive guide to artificial intelligence in health care and medicine. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Wednesday. I love trying the local ice cream when I visit a different city.
Doctors didn’t catch AI’s mistakes. What does that mean for human-in-the-loop?

2 weeks ago | statnews.com | Brittany Trang

You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s AI Prognosis newsletter, our subscriber-exclusive guide to artificial intelligence in health care and medicine. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Wednesday. The entire time I’ve covered AI in health care, companies developing and selling the tech have been pawning off liability for AI-generated errors onto doctors.
What's an AI scaling law? We've found biology's, says Profluent

3 weeks ago | statnews.com | Brittany Trang

You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s AI Prognosis newsletter, our subscriber-exclusive guide to artificial intelligence in health care and medicine. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Wednesday. We’re going to dive into a wonky one today. As Ms. Frizzle would say, “Seatbelts, everyone!”Last week, AI protein design startup Profluent released a new, more powerful model called ProGen3.
What's an AI scaling law? We've found biology's, says Profluent

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Brittany Trang

NowA Fingerprint Taken From Stonehenge Changes Everything We Know About Its Mystical OriginsHere’s how scientists unlocked new hidden secrets of the iconic monument. A chemical fingerprint taken of Stonehenge’s Altar Stone reveals that it isn’t from Wales, as was previously understood.
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announces three new hires in leadership team

3 weeks ago | statnews.com | Lizzy Lawrence |Brittany Trang

WASHINGTON — The commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration welcomed three new leaders to the agency this week, including a new deputy commissioner, according to an email to staff on Monday. The new arrivals were Lowell Zeta as deputy commissioner for strategic initiatives; Timothy Schell as acting director for the Center for Veterinary Medicine; and Craig Taylor as the acting chief information officer.
In directives to federal agencies, Trump charts a different course for AI

4 weeks ago | statnews.com | Casey Ross |Brittany Trang

Upon taking office, President Donald Trump promised a new approach to the government’s policies on artificial intelligence, issuing a seven-paragraph order that was short on detail but long on its promise to use AI to advance America’s economic interests.
NEJM AI’s editor-in-chief on FDA approval vs. clinical effectiveness

4 weeks ago | statnews.com | Brittany Trang

You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s AI Prognosis newsletter, our subscriber-exclusive guide to artificial intelligence in health care and medicine. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Wednesday. Isaac “Zak” Kohane is the chair of biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School.
NEJM AI’s editor-in-chief on FDA approval vs. clinical effectiveness

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Brittany Trang

Microsoft's Huge Plans for Mass AI Data Centers Now Rapidly Falling ApartIs Microsoft getting cold feet? In yet another sign that tech giant Microsoft is getting cold feet about overinvesting in AI infrastructure, the …