The Trump administration on Wednesday said it has secured commitments from more than 60 health and information technology companies to participate in a plan to make Medicare patient data more accessible. Leaders from tech companies including Google, Amazon and OpenAI, along with providers and health systems including Cleveland Clinic and UnitedHealth Group, will meet with health officials at the White House later on Wednesday to 'begin laying the foundation for a next-generation digital health ecosystem,' CMS says.
Of the nearly 700 such devices captured in STAT’s Breakthrough Device Tracker, at least 10% use artificial intelligence. At least 16 have already been authorized by the FDA, and the unofficial count is still higher: STAT found examples of AI-based breakthrough devices that have been cleared by the FDA but have yet to be reported on the agency's public list of authorized breakthroughs, which was last updated in November.
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons, which publishes an annual report on surgery trends, recently found that 2 in 5 of its members' GLP-1 patients were considering undergoing cosmetic surgery — and 1 in 5 already had.
As large language models like Claude 4 express uncertainty about whether they are conscious, researchers race to decode their inner workings, raising profound questions about machine awareness, ethics and the risks of uncontrolled AI evolution