FC-OE Alpha 1: Proprio's
open-bone optical registration could cut navigation setup to almost nothing, if the accuracy holds…
No. 33 - Predicting health from a face?
The Lancet Digital Health has published FAHR-Face, a foundation model from Mass General Brigham and Dana-Farber that turns an ordinary facial photograph into prognostic information in cancer patients.…
No 32 - What 271 Million Clinician Queries Reveal
JAMA published a large-scale usage analysis of a clinical AI tool this week. Across 952,008 verified US clinicians and 271 million queries (January 2024 to June 2026), OpenEvidence grew from 355 to 70…
No. 31 - Gemini agent launch plus the Lancet AMIE study
On 8 October, Google Cloud launched the Gemini agent at Gemini at Work 2026: a single persistent, cloud-run agent for knowledge work, media and code that spawns sub-agents and can operate as a "c…
No. 30 - Limited Access to Gemini Argon 4
On 30 September, Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, releasing it first to vetted cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program, with paid API and Google AI Ultra access to follow. Google reports 77.9% on…
No. 29 - The Frontier Gets Cheaper. Validation Does Not.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on 22 September and Claude Sonnet 5.5 today. The news is price. Opus 5.5 is listed at $4 / $20 per million input / output tokens, 20% below Opus 5, with the vendor c…
No. 28 - The Paper That Runs Itself
A Stanford preprint that made the rounds in AI-for-science circles a year ago just cleared peer review at Nature. That gap is worth sitting with: Paper2Agent was interesting enough as a preprint in Se…
No. 27 - What the Navier–Stokes Fight Reveals About Frontier AI in Health
On September 8, OpenAI announced that an internal, unreleased model — described as significantly more capable than its recently launched GPT-6 Astra — had resolved the Navier–Stokes existence and smoo…
No. 26 - The Frontier Race Goes Biological
Three frontier labs shipped flagship model updates within days of each other in early September, and for the first time, all three led with a life-sciences capability claim rather than treating biolog…
No. 25 - The Skill Outlives the Model
Google Research just published a framework that quietly undercuts one of the more expensive assumptions in enterprise AI procurement: that better performance requires a bigger, newer model. WikiSkill…
No. 24 -The AI Co-Scientist Reviewers Didn't Reject
Google Research and DeepMind built CoDaS, a six-agent system that takes raw wearable time-series — heart rate, sleep, activity, app usage — and runs the entire biomarker discovery lifecycle end to end…
No. 23 - The Watermark That Flags the Wrong People
Anthropic confirmed on August 14 that future Claude models will embed a statistical watermark in every response, adopting Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text method and joining roughly 190 signatories…