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Informed consent was designed for human clinicians. New 2025 and 2026 evidence shows what AI consent forms leave out, what patients want to hear, and what could fix it.
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Inside the AI Labs Where Digital Scientists Argue, Test and Discover
Multi-agent AI labs split research into specialist roles that debate, design and test. See how Co-Scientist, the Virtual Lab and AI Scientist work, and where they fail.
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AI research assistants can speed up literature searches, but fabricated citations and patchy recall remain real risks. Here is what 2026 studies say about which tools hold up.
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OpenAI's DevDay 2026 turned long-running autonomous agents into everyday infrastructure. Here is what that means for the slow, expensive work of automating scientific research, and where the honest limits still sit.
Medical AI Just Hit 90% Accuracy. But Why Can't Hospitals Trust It?
A new Nature Medicine study shows on-premise medical AI agents can diagnose at near-cloud accuracy. The bigger story is why the field still can't agree on how to know when to trust them.
AI Just Mapped 2,812 Viruses to Outrun the Next Pandemic
AlphaFold has released free, AI-predicted protein complex structures for more than 2,812 human-infecting viruses. Here is what the pandemic preparedness update means for global science.
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