How AI is used in healthcare today: from scans to clinical notes
Medical imaging, clinical documentation, triage, drug discovery and patient tools: where AI is already used in healthcare, what the evidence shows and the open risks.
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Section C
Research & Science — Page 3
Papers explained, benchmarks, datasets and the science behind AI.
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AI in drug discovery: from protein structures to clinical trials
How AlphaFold, generative chemistry and machine learning are changing how drugs are discovered and tested, what has reached clinical trials, and what remains hype.
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How AI is changing video games: development, NPCs and players
From AlphaStar to AI-powered characters and generative assets: how AI is used to play, make and personalize games, and why it is controversial with game workers.
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How AI is changing sports: officiating, tactics, training and fans
Hawk-Eye and semi-automated offside, tracking data, tactical analysis, injury prevention, scouting and broadcasting: how AI is used across professional sports.
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How AI is accelerating science: from weather to exoplanets
AI weather forecasting, protein structures, materials discovery, astronomy and automated labs: how machine learning is changing scientific research, and its pitfalls.
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The major AI conferences explained: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR and more
A guide to the top machine learning and AI research conferences, what each focuses on, how peer review works, and why conferences matter more than journals in AI.
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Paper of the day: Switch Transformers and the rise of mixture-of-experts
Switch Transformers showed that routing each token to one expert lets models grow to a trillion parameters without proportional compute. How MoE works and why it matters.
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Quick take: benchmark scores won't tell you which AI model to use
Why leaderboard rankings are a poor guide to choosing an AI model for your work, what they do measure, and a simple way to test models on your own tasks.
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AI trends to watch: agents, reasoning, on-device AI and regulation
The structural trends shaping AI — agents, reasoning models, falling costs, multimodality, on-device AI and regulation — and the signals that show which are real.
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