AI News Archive: May 6, 2026 — Part 16
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- China to Invest in DeepSeek at $50 Billion Valuation
The money will come from government-backed investors and align the AI startup with Beijing’s push for technology self-sufficiency.
- DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round
The Chinese AI lab came to prominence in early 2025 after launching a large language model that trained on a fraction of the compute power and at a fraction of the cost of the big U.S. models like those from OpenAI and Anthropic.
- Elon Musk Wanted OpenAI to Go Commercial, Greg Brockman Testifies
Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, testified in a trial pitting Mr. Musk against his company that the world’s richest man was eager to change how it operated as a nonprofit.
- How Elon Musk left OpenAI, according to Greg Brockman
Cutthroat negotiations between startup founders are rarely shared so publicly, especially when a company becomes as world-changing as OpenAI.
- Snap's $400 million deal with Perplexity is dead
The planned AI search feature for Snapchat never fully rolled out.
- Apple reaches $250 million settlement over exaggerating Apple Intelligences capabilities
Apple has reached a $250 million settlement in a lawsuit that accused the company of exaggerating Apple Intelligence's intelligence.
- An electrocardiogram-based machine learning model for distinguishing complete Kawasaki disease.
Kawasaki disease (KD) is a systemic vasculitis in young children, and early diagnosis remains challenging when clinical features are incomplete or overlap with those of other febrile illnesses. Because electrocardiography (ECG) is noninvasive and widely available, we investigated whether ECG-derived features could help distinguish complete KD from pediatric patients with fevers. We conducted a single-center retrospective study of hospitalized febrile children aged 1-8 years who underwent digital 12-lead ECG recording during the initial evaluation at a hospital. Five amplitude features and six timing features extracted from the ECG were used to develop a logistic regression model to distinguish between complete KD and other febrile illnesses. The model succeeded in the discrimination between KD and non-KD groups. The prediction performance was not strongly correlated with the age and body temperature. Wave amplitudes and RR interval were suggested as the important features for the discr
- SmartAlert: Integrating Machine Learning and Alert Triggers into Live Electronic Medical Record Systems, Targeting Low-Yield Inpatient Lab Tests
This study explores integrating machine learning into electronic medical record systems to predict stability of inpatient lab tests. A 'SmartAlert' system was developed and tested at Stanford Hospital. The system identifies stable lab results, advising clinicians on test ordering. Live deployment showed desired precision at good recall in predicting test result stability, with suggestions for system optimization identified. This approach may significantly decrease low-yield testing and enhance personalized clinical decision-making.
- How Much Does the Reduced EEG Montage Matter for Seizure Detection?: A Large-Cohort Simulation Study
Importance: Implantable sub-scalp EEG systems with a small number of channels have emerged as promising solutions for long-term seizure monitoring in patients with epilepsy. How seizure detection performance varies by montage configuration is unknown. Objective: To quantify how automated seizure detection performance differs between full and reduced montages, and how these differences vary by epilepsy characteristics. Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study. Setting: Single-center at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU). Participants: Consecutive EMU admissions between January 2017 and December 2024 were screened. Admissions with at least one annotated seizure and one interictal clip [≥]20 minutes from any seizure were included. Exposure: Computational simulation of published sub-scalp device montages using standard 10-20 EEG channels. Main Outcomes and Measures: The primary outcome was event-based F1 scores evaluated for three published sei
- From Power Spectral Density to Wavelets: Improving Symbolic Representations of Electroencephalography Band Dynamics in the Weed Plot Framework
Electroencephalography (EEG) interpretation in clinical practice relies on the analysis of energy distribution across standard frequency bands. The Weed Plot framework encodes band wise spectral energy, computed using Fourier based methods, into a symbolic representation that preserves the interpretability of traditional EEG analysis. In this study, we propose a wavelet based extension of this framework, where the energy of predefined clinical EEG bands is estimated using the Discrete Wavelet Transform instead of Power Spectral Density. Unlike Fourier based approaches, wavelets provide a time frequency representation that captures transient and non stationary dynamics while remaining consistent with clinically defined bands. From these estimates, symbolic patterns are constructed based on the relative ordering of frequency bands within short temporal windows. Their empirical distribution is used to extract entropy based features for epilepsy detection using multiple machine learning cl
- PD Union An Automated Pharmacodynamic Modeling Framework Based on a Unified Mechanistic Skeleton and Machine Learning Assistance
Abstract Objective: Conventional pharmacodynamic (PD) modeling workflows require manual model selection, repeated equation rewriting, and empirical parameter adjustment, resulting in limited automation, high cross-scenario migration costs, and insufficient reproducibility. This study aims to develop PD Union, a unified, automated, and interpretable framework for mechanistic PD modeling. Methods: PD Union is built upon a unified continuous dynamical skeleton that organizes absorption and systemic exposure module, the receptor module, the drug input module, the first delay module, the primary pharmacodynamic function module, the primary pharmacodynamic state module, the downstream pharmacodynamic state module, the second delay module, the feedback module, the circadian modulation module, the biophase module, the direct effect module, the disease state module, the second PD axis first delay module, the second PD axis primary pharmacodynamic function module, the second PD axis primary phar
- Identifying the determinants of health protective behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning: an analysis of six countries
Individuals adapt their behavior in response to infectious disease epidemics. Understanding the determinants of behavior, particularly the impact of infections themselves, can help model the feedback loop between disease and behavior in epidemic models. We combined the Imperial College London YouGov COVID-19 behavior survey with hospitalization data and the Oxford COVID-19 government response tracker stringency index to identify the key predictors of three health behaviors, social distancing, masking, and personal protective measures (e.g. handwashing), during an early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in six different countries. We compared two machine learning algorithms: logistic regression with stepwise Akaike Information Criterion and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost). Top predictors of health behavior were perceived disease severity, hospitalizations, willingness to isolate, and intervention effectiveness, across the six countries. Logistic regression and XGBoost had comparable pe
- Enhancing dengue diagnosis and surveillance by integrating machine learning technologies with the NS1 rapid test kit
Background. Dengue has been a major health threat globally in recent years. In particular, dengue incidences continue to increase annually and the epidemic area has expanded primarily due to global warming. Therefore, effective case detection and surveillance strategies are crucial to tackle this global health challenge. In clinical practice, the rapid test kit detecting dengue non-structural protein 1 antigen and commonly referred as NS1, is widely employed for early diagnosis. However, real-world studies revealed that the sensitivity of the NS1 test kit ranged from approximately 61% to 95%. Since early diagnosis is really critical for disease surveillance in the early stage of a dengue epidemic, scientists have been working hard to develop novel diagnosis methods that can provide higher sensitivity levels. Methodology/Principal Findings. In response to this challenge, in this study, we have developed a novel diagnosis procedure that integrates machine learning technologies with the N
- Patterns and Predictors of Artificial Intelligence Use Among Healthcare Professionals in the United States and United Kingdom: A Cross-National Survey
Objective: We surveyed 524 healthcare professionals (HCPs) in the United States and United Kingdom to examine workplace generative AI use, access, and barriers in two high-maturity health settings. Methods: This cross-sectional survey compared AI usage breadth, access modes, and barriers among HCPs, stratified by country and professional role. Results: Overall, 75.8% of HCPs reported recent AI use, mainly for documentation, literature search, and clinical decision support. Usage breadth was similar by country, but role differences were pronounced. Physicians reported broader use and were significantly more likely to access AI via personal, non-employer-provided tools (60.4% vs. 31.0% for nurses; P<.01). Personal tools were the most common access mode overall (40.1%). Conclusion: AI use is common, but institutional access lags adoption. Shifting use from personal accounts toward governed, approved systems is a key priority.
- Head and Body Pose Classification for Understanding Sleep Behaviour in People Living with Dementia using Video and a Novel Multi-Head Attention-Driven Deep Learning Architecture
Sleep posture is known to be relevant to various sleep disorders, such as sleep apnea, but it is not often quantified in sleep monitoring systems. We address this with a novel vision-based approach, which is robust to the challenging conditions (variable lighting, partial occlusions, variable geometry) of in bed monitoring. This paper proposes a novel, attention-driven deep learning framework for the robust classification of the head and body pose from infrared (IR) video streams during sleep of older people and people living with Alzheimer's. Our architecture integrates a pre-trained convolutional backbone with a novel Multi-Head Channel-Spatial Attention (MH-CSA) module. The MH-CSA mechanism hierarchically identifies salient features by first capturing multi-scale spatial context using parallel heads with varied dilation rates, and then adaptively recalibrating feature importance via integrated Squeeze-and-Excitation blocks. To specifically address class imbalance, the model is optim
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- Microsoft reconsiders ambitious clean energy goal amid AI boom
The deliberation comes as Microsoft and other tech giants race to build new AI data centers and secure enough energy to power them.
- Microsoft’s AI data center push is colliding with its clean power goals
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- NeuralBench: A Unifying Framework to Benchmark NeuroAI Models
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- SpecMD: A Comprehensive Study on Speculative Expert Prefetching
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models enable sparse expert activation, meaning that only a subset of the model’s parameters is used during each inference. However, to translate this sparsity into practical performance, an expert caching mechanism is required. Previous works have proposed hardware-centric caching policies, but how these various caching policies interact with each other and different hardware specification remains poorly understood. To address this gap, we develop SpecMD, a standardized framework for benchmarking ad-hoc cache policies on various hardware configurations. Using SpecMD…
- Normalizing Flows with Iterative Denoising
Normalizing Flows (NFs) are a classical family of likelihood-based methods that have received revived attention. Recent efforts such as TARFlow have shown that NFs are capable of achieving promising performance on image modeling tasks, making them viable alternatives to other methods such as diffusion models. In this work, we further advance the state of Normalizing Flow generative models by introducing iterative TARFlow (iTARFlow). Unlike diffusion models, iTARFlow maintains a fully end-to-end, likelihood-based objective during training. During sampling, it performs autoregressive generation…
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- From Where Things Are to What They’re For: Benchmarking Spatial–Functional Intelligence for Multimodal LLMs
True spatial intelligence for multimodal agents transcends low-level geometric perception, evolving from knowing where things are to understanding what they are for. While existing benchmarks, such as VSI-Bench, effectively evaluate this foundational geometric stage, they fall short of probing the higher-order cognitive abilities essential for grounded intelligence. To bridge this gap, we introduce the Spatial-Functional Intelligence Benchmark (SFI-Bench), a video-based benchmark with over 1700 questions derived from diverse, egocentric indoor video scans. SFI-Bench is designed to…
- TDA for drug discovery: Cyclic molecule generation with topological guidance
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- On the application of Large Language Models for language teaching and assessment technology
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