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AI applications, claims, risks, and policy in diagnosis, screening, drug discovery, and healthcare.

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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

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2026554 stories
AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy↗ thenextweb.com · HN · 211 comments · 364 points · Jul 19, 2026
Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse↗ localnewsmatters.org · HN · 380 comments · 563 points · Jul 17, 2026
Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts↗ theregister.com · HN · 138 comments · 313 points · May 14, 2026
OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors↗ theguardian.com · HN · 473 comments · 507 points · May 03, 2026
Google removes AI health summaries↗ arstechnica.com · HN · 175 comments · 226 points · Jan 12, 2026
2025622 stories
Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k↗ threads.com · HN · 923 comments · 1034 points · Oct 28, 2025
Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”↗ twitter.com · HN · 511 comments · 882 points · Jul 19, 2025
AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome↗ deepmind.google · HN · 176 comments · 529 points · Jun 26, 2025
AI models miss disease in Black and female patients↗ science.org · HN · 230 comments · 329 points · Mar 27, 2025
I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease↗ old.reddit.com · HN · 300 comments · 412 points · Feb 10, 2025
2024507 stories
Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations↗ bloomberg.com · HN · 984 comments · 461 points · Oct 20, 2024
Homemade AI drone software finds people when search and rescue teams can't↗ wired.com · HN · 140 comments · 254 points · Oct 07, 2024
AI tool cuts unexpected deaths in hospital by 26%, Canadian study finds↗ cbc.ca · HN · 185 comments · 230 points · Sep 18, 2024
AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules↗ blog.google · HN · 487 comments · 1100 points · May 08, 2024
Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job↗ globalnews.ca · HN · 263 comments · 260 points · May 03, 2024
2023438 stories
Scientists discover new antibiotics using AI↗ euronews.com · HN · 98 comments · 179 points · Dec 27, 2023
AI can diagnose childhood autism from retinal photos↗ petapixel.com · HN · 53 comments · 75 points · Dec 22, 2023
AI predicts certain esophageal and stomach cancers three years before diagnosis↗ michiganmedicine.org · HN · 22 comments · 48 points · Aug 23, 2023
Eye scans detect signs of Parkinson’s disease up to seven years before diagnosis↗ moorfields.nhs.uk · HN · 2 comments · 25 points · Aug 23, 2023
Urine Test Detects Prostate and Pancreatic Cancers with Near-Perfect Accuracy↗ sciencedirect.com · HN · 4 comments · 40 points · Feb 16, 2023
2022247 stories
AI models that predict disease are not as accurate as reports might suggest↗ scientificamerican.com · HN · 155 comments · 231 points · Oct 21, 2022
AlphaFold's database grows over 200x to cover nearly all known proteins↗ wandb.ai · HN · 50 comments · 152 points · Aug 01, 2022
Half of women will get a false positive 3D mammogram, study finds↗ axios.com · HN · 158 comments · 256 points · Mar 25, 2022
Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery↗ nature.com · HN · 64 comments · 155 points · Mar 16, 2022
AI is changing chemical discovery↗ thegradient.pub · HN · 65 comments · 125 points · Feb 14, 2022
2021303 stories
AI predicts accident hot-spots from satellite imagery and GPS data↗ unite.ai · HN · 76 comments · 181 points · Oct 13, 2021
Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in breast cancer screening↗ bmj.com · HN · 323 comments · 439 points · Sep 02, 2021
Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be rolled out↗ theguardian.com · HN · 377 comments · 630 points · Jun 25, 2021
“AI promised to revolutionize radiology but so far its failing”↗ statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu · HN · 387 comments · 405 points · Jun 07, 2021
Prostate cancer can be precisely diagnosed using a urine test with AI↗ phys.org · HN · 53 comments · 213 points · Jan 21, 2021
2020556 stories
AI model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through phone-recorded coughs↗ news.mit.edu · HN · 74 comments · 228 points · Oct 31, 2020
CIA Labs↗ cia.gov · HN · 131 comments · 132 points · Sep 21, 2020
Portable MRI promises to provide immediate diagnosis in virtually any setting↗ news.yale.edu · HN · 84 comments · 235 points · Sep 09, 2020
Pumas AI: A platform for pharmaceutical modeling and simulation↗ pumas.ai · HN · 33 comments · 123 points · Aug 11, 2020
AlphaFold: Using AI for Scientific Discovery↗ deepmind.com · HN · 20 comments · 136 points · Jan 18, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions↗ scmp.com · HN · 27 comments · 152 points · Sep 18, 2026
Watch AI materials-science and bioscience abilities closely↗ lesswrong.com · HN · 49 comments · 40 points · Sep 14, 2026
AI is deciding whether or not people receive medical care↗ vox.com · HN · 6 comments · 15 points · Sep 24, 2026
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment↗ arstechnica.com · HN · 0 comments · 14 points · Sep 25, 2026
Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI↗ 404media.co · HN · 52 comments · 196 points · Aug 12, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions↗ scmp.com · HN · 27 comments · 152 points · Sep 18, 2026
Watch AI materials-science and bioscience abilities closely↗ lesswrong.com · HN · 49 comments · 40 points · Sep 14, 2026
AI is deciding whether or not people receive medical care↗ vox.com · HN · 6 comments · 15 points · Sep 24, 2026
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment↗ arstechnica.com · HN · 0 comments · 14 points · Sep 25, 2026
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment↗ arstechnica.com · HN · 3 comments · 13 points · Sep 26, 2026
U.S. Health Officials Move Quickly to Deploy Medical A.I. Despite Concerns↗ nytimes.com · HN · 1 comments · 11 points · Sep 14, 2026
Danish pharma giant Novo to use Anthropic's Claude to advance AI drug discovery↗ euronews.com · HN · 1 comments · 10 points · Sep 16, 2026
Garbage trucks analyze homes with AI-powered cameras↗ popsci.com · HN · 0 comments · 6 points · Sep 18, 2026
Opportunistic AI detects colorectal cancer using routine, noncontrast CT↗ radiologybusiness.com · HN · 1 comments · 6 points · Sep 14, 2026
DeepSeek beats GPT-6 Sol in autonomous drug development↗ eval.raycaster.ai · HN · 2 comments · 5 points · Sep 25, 2026

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