Sugoi & Yokunai

According to data from Retraction Watch, papers by published by Chinese authors between 1996 and 2025 were around six times more likely to be retracted than those by American or British ones. Before the Chinese government banned the practices in 2020, universities often gave researchers publication quotas or paid them bonuses for publication. Authorities have also tried to tackle the problem by cracking down on paper mills and reforming academic evaluation. But reputations take time to repair.

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

While the initial budget pitched by Mayor Keith Wilson proposed cuts to Portland Police, Portland Fire & Rescue and Portland parks, councilors were able to include $3 million for urban forestry, and save some police support staff positions and a Portland fire engine. 

They also restored $2.5 million to Portland Street Response, Project Ceasefire, and summer Free for All programs.

In this way, the emergence of today’s AI health products remind me of the rise, in the 2010s, of ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft. The taxi industry is heavily regulated, making it difficult for new players to enter the market. Yet by skirting and at times ignoring those rules, ride-sharing companies were able to acquire a critical mass of users in a short period of time. Pretty soon, governments had little choice but to adjust their laws to match what had by then become the status quo. The same pattern could end up playing out in medicine. Will regulations meant to ensure that medical products are safe and effective remain in force? Or will they instead be weakened or removed to clear the path for tools that everyone is already using?

Our study found that PEDs other than the iPhone 12 have magnetic susceptibility and thus have the potential to inhibit lifesaving therapies. 

The enthusiasm regarding the capabilities and usefulness of large-scale AI in health care is understandable. Nevertheless, the massive environmental, economic, and social costs should be considered while developing and using them. Improving the performance and clinical value of AI without overlooking its costs is important for balancing the sustainability of large-scale AI and its usefulness in health care.

The first and unsurprising observation is that being useful on these tasks requires your agent to have context, which means: relatively unrestricted access to your private data. You know about your invitees’ availability because they texted it to you. You know about Mike’s allergy because you’ve talked about it with him or jotted it down somewhere. (This could mean iMessages, email, contacts, or personal notes.) Re-entering all of this data into an agent would be annoying and time consuming and the whole point of an agent is to save you time. The winning personal assistant doesn’t win just because it’s smart: it wins because it “already knows” the things you need it to know, like a personal assistant who sits next to your desk.

Allow me to dig into the details just a bit deeper. The agent might scan your messages database to learn the parameters needed to schedule your dinner. Or, in a more token-efficient system, it might read your messages continuously and store a “memory” that distills useful facts that it might need later. Both can be functionally equivalent, but one produces an artifact that may be highly sensitive. And keep in mind that the set of facts that might be useful is very broad. For example, Mike’s allergy is one of those facts. But there are many others. For example, the private conversation you had where you discovered that Mike was having an affair is potentially another fact that could be stored or accessed by a system. Memory or not, this data will all be within the agent’s view, and you’ll have to hope that it knows which one to operate on.

We see Siri not as a separate chatbot, just an unintegrated place you go and chit-chat, but rather as an integral, conversational tool that you use in the moment, deeply integrated into your experience.