Healthcare and life sciences, forward
Sutter Health's planned $1 billion investment in Northern California's East Bay region will no longer include a new flagship medical center, at least for now. Outpatient investments in the community will still be going forward.
Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry.
An increasing shift toward outpatient surgeries and slower-than-expected ramps to profitability at some of its hospitals dinged Universal Health Services’ earnings in the third quarter.
The health system's push into high-acuity procedures like joint replacements and spinal fusions helped offset declining surgical volumes and payer-mix pressures tied to the ACA exchanges.
Named “Volta-Autodoxer,” the recently uncovered malware uses AI tools to collect troves of data about victims, from login credentials and credit card numbers to Discord sessions and UberEats receipts.
Companies have spent the past several weeks trying to reassure investors that Muse and other AI agents pose more of an opportunity than a threat.
A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs.
