2026-08-05
Peer-Reviewed Studies Tie Ambient AI to More Surgeries at Houston Methodist
Houston Methodist researchers have published what they describe as the first peer-reviewed evidence that ambient AI in the operating room is associated with a measurable increase in surgical case volume: a 7% rise, or roughly 25 additional cases per month, in a high-acuity cardiothoracic suite after the system deployed Apella's computer-vision platform. The study, published June 27, 2026 in t [...]
2026-08-05
Mistral's open model Shieldstral matches much larger safety models at a fraction of the size
Mistral's new 3B Shieldstral model checks AI inputs and outputs for safety violations using natural language yes-or-no questions instead of fixed categories. It matches models seven times its size in some benchmarks. Operators can set their own criteria at runtime rather than rely on a third party's category system, and the model can run locally.<br /> The article Mistral's op [...]
2026-08-05
‘Now, almost every image looks flat or cartoonish’: I saw Reddit arguing that Google’s AI image generator had got worse — so I ran my own comparison against ChatGPT
Following up on a Reddit conversation about AI image generators I investigate how Nano Banana 2 compares to ChatGPT at image generation. [...]