AI News Archive: July 27, 2026 — Part 14
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- Ixodid Tick-Borne Pathogens as Candidate Triggers for Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis: Ecological Evidence
Background & Aims. Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a cholestatic liver disease of unknown etiology whose prevalence varies >30-fold worldwide, peaking in Northern Europe and the U.S. Upper Midwest. This geographic distribution is not fully explained by recognized risk factors. We examine its correlation with Ixodes tick exposure. Approach & Results. PSC incidence across North America, Europe, and Oceania was compared with Lyme incidence, HLA-DRB1*03 frequency, latitude and other environmental factors. Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) and primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) were included as controls. A U.S. analysis (MarketScan, 2018-2022; 110.7 million person-years) correlated age and sex-standardized rates against 24 exposures, including Ixodes density and tick-borne infections, using ancestry-adjusted partial correlations. Cross-country PSC incidence tracked Lyme incidence (Spearman rho = 0.71-0.87); HLA-DRB1*03, AIH, and PBC did not. Alaska Native and Greenlandic populations, high-latitude but without established human exposure to Ixodes-borne pathogens, report no PSC despite high autoimmune liver disease and IBD. In the U.S., PSC was clustered and tracked Ixodes-borne pathogen incidence (ancestry-adjusted partial r, log scale: anaplasmosis +0.50, babesiosis +0.56, Powassan virus disease +0.52; in the Northeast-Midwest block, ancestry- and latitude-adjusted r = +0.72, +0.84, and +0.78, respectively). Non-Ixodes infections (Ehrlichia chaffeensis, spotted fever, tularemia), AIH, and PBC were null-to-negative; rural, agricultural, pollution, and healthcare-access also did not correlate. Conclusions. These ecological analyses are consistent with the hypothesis that Ixodes-borne pathogen exposure may trigger PSC. These ecological data cannot establish causation; they are hypothesis-generating, yielding falsifiable predictions for case control, serologic, and animal-model studies.
- Prevalence of Urogenital Schistosomiasis and Associated Factors in the Lac Region: A Focus on Environmental and Socioeconomic Contexts
Background: Urogenital schistosomiasis caused by Schistosoma haematobium remains a major public health concern in the Lake Chad region. This study aimed to estimate the cumulative prevalence of S. haematobium infection and to identify factors associated with test positivity within an intervention zone of the Ngouri health district, Lac Province, Chad. Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted using routinely collected data from the Dawa Mobile Health system between February 2024 and April 2025. A total of 4,504 individuals were included after data cleaning and biological consistency correction (22 haematuria cases recoded as positive). Bivariate analysis (Chi-square test) and multivariable logistic regression were performed. Results: The overall prevalence was 19.5% (95% CI: 18.4% - 20.7%). No statistically significant association was found for age (p=0.163), sex (p=0.939), marital status (p=0.858), occupation (p=0.704), or urine appearance in the binary model (p=0.116). Education level approached significance (p=0.078), with the highest prevalence observed at the primary level (23.0%). In multivariable analysis, only primary education was independently associated with positivity (adjusted OR=1.29, 95% CI: 1.06 - 1.57; p=0.011). Conclusion: Nearly one in five participants tested positive, confirming the high endemicity of the Ngouri district. The homogeneous distribution across demographic subgroups suggests widespread community exposure, supporting mass drug administration beyond school-aged children, strengthened WASH interventions, and consolidation of mobile health surveillance. Keywords: Schistosoma haematobium; urogenital schistosomiasis; prevalence; Lake Chad; Chad; mobile health; logistic regression.
- Anatomic and Physiologic Scoring is Associated with Mortality and Morbidity Following Operative Intervention for Adult Congenital Heart Disease Patients
BACKGROUND: The revised 2018 AHA/ACC guidelines introduced the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Anatomic and Physiologic classification (ACHD-AP) to better categorize disease severity and prognosis in the ACHD population. The ACHD-AP has not been rigorously studied as a perioperative prediction tool. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to assess the accuracy of the ACHD-AP classification in predicting perioperative morbidity and mortality. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study included 295 ACHD patients at a single academic institution between 2018 to 2022. Patients were identified by the STS congenital surgery registry and had undergone a congenital surgical procedure. The primary outcome was overall mortality. Secondary outcomes included short-term post-operative morbidity and comparison of the ACHD-AP score to other existing surgical mortality risk scores. Kaplan-Meier and area under the curve (AUC) of Receiver Operating Characteristic curves were used to evaluate mortality. Logistic regression was used to compare short-term morbidity. RESULTS: A total of 295 patients were included with a median age of 30 years (interquartile range 21-41 years) and 52% were female. There was a total of 14 deaths with 5 (2%) early post-operative deaths and 9 (3%) long-term deaths. By increasing anatomy complexity, overall mortality was 0%, 4% (n=10), and 8% (n=4), respectively. By increasing physiologic severity, overall mortality was 0%, 3% (n=2), 4% (n=7), and 14% (n=5). Moderate and complex anatomy trended towards increased mortality but were not statistically significant (p-value > 0.9). More severe physiology scores predicted increased mortality (p-value = 0.02). Higher physiologic or anatomic complexity scores were associated with longer post-operative length of stay (>5 days). The ACHD-AP AUC was 0.711 for mortality, which was comparable to the Adult Congenital Heart Surgery (ACHS) score (AUC 0.798) and better than the PEACH score (AUC 0.575). CONCLUSION: The ACHD-AP score revealed comparable or better predictive power to existing risk models. Worsening physiologic and anatomy scores were associated with worse post-operative outcomes. Further prospective studies are needed to validate the ACHD-AP score as a prognostic factor for patients undergoing ACHD surgery.
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- Association Between Out-of-Hospital Falls and Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Background Falls are increasingly recognized as adverse events in coronary heart disease (CHD) patients, yet their prognostic implications remain incompletely understood. This study examined the independent associations of falls with mortality and major adverse cardiovascular events, and the roles of functional status and frailty in these relationships. Methods This retrospective cohort study enrolled 2,139 CHD patients with median follow-up of 36 months. Falls were ascertained via telephone interviews every 3 months. Primary outcomes included major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) and major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events (MACCE). Secondary outcomes comprised all-cause and cardiac mortality. Multivariable Cox models with stepwise adjustment for functional status indicators were constructed, with subgroup analyses stratified by frailty status. Results During follow-up, 171 patients (8.0%) experienced falls. Falls were associated with mortality in univariate analysis but not after adjusting for functional status, indicating mediation by functional decline. In contrast, falls remained independently associated with MACE (HR=1.73, 95%CI: 1.17-2.57, P=0.006) and MACCE (HR=1.67, 95%CI: 1.14-2.46, P=0.009) in fully adjusted models. Frailty significantly modified this association (P for interaction <0.001). Among robust patients, falls conferred substantially elevated risk (MACE: HR=4.08, 95%CI: 2.37-7.01; MACCE: HR=3.94, 95%CI: 2.30-6.76), whereas no significant association was observed in pre-frail or frail patients. Conclusions Falls independently predict long-term MACE and MACCE in CHD patients, with mortality effects mediated by functional status. Frailty significantly modifies the fall-cardiovascular event relationship--robust patients experiencing falls face substantially elevated cardiovascular risk and warrant comprehensive evaluation. These findings support integrating fall history into cardiovascular risk assessment and implementing frailty-stratified management.
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- Pitt leads AI‑quantum project in DOE’s Genesis Mission
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- Trump is loosening AI guardrails. What does that mean for you?
Trump is loosening AI guardrails. What does that mean for you? azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- Cheaper, open and intelligent: Chinese AI models gain ground, as they make inroads in the US
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- ChainBow Releases Otoha, an iOS and macOS Audio Player With Automatic Subtitle Generation
ChainBow Releases Otoha, an iOS and macOS Audio Player With Automatic Subtitle Generation azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- New AI Tools Let Readers Talk To Books
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- Inspired by how children learn, new AI framework learns to theorize the world from observations
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- AI underwater robots can now track diver stress via exhaled bubbles
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- Can AI’s power problem become a clean-energy opportunity?
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- ClinFusion: A Vision-Centric Multimodal LLM System for Holistic Medical Understanding
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) hold immense potential to revolutionize clinical practice, yet deploying them in the medical domain is fundamentally a vision-centric challenge: models must absorb knowledge from heterogeneous 2D and 3D medical images, and evaluation protocols must align with...
- KANEx: Translating Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks' Interpretability to Medical Explainability
Computer vision models have become highly effective for medical applications, yet their black-box nature continues to undermine clinician trust. In clinical workflows, chest X-ray classifiers are increasingly paired with Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to generate natural-language explanations. Howeve...
- The Physics of Multi-Turn Long-Horizon Planning: From Pre-training to Post-training via Single- and Multi-Teacher On-Policy Agentic Distillation
Multi-turn long-horizon planning is critical for foundation model agents, yet how to fundamentally improve it remains unclear. Existing models are trained on uncontrollable and opaque Internet data, making it difficult to identify how planning ability is acquired, shaped, and integrated. To address ...
- DataOrchestra: Learning to Orchestrate Per-Example Curation of Pretraining Data
Pretraining data processing is critical to the downstream performance of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, many existing approaches define a fixed processing strategy at the corpus or domain level and apply it uniformly to many examples, without adapting to the needs of each example. We propose...
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- Efficient LLM-Generated Shuttling Compilers for Complex Trapped-Ion Architectures
Trapped-ion quantum computers rely on shuttling compilers, which cast an input algorithm into a sequence of ion-qubit movements within a given architecture. We present the first study in which a single frontier large language model (LLM), Claude Opus 4.7, generates and iteratively refines the full P...
- Co-Learning for Missing Arbitrary Modalities in Multi-modal Classification
Multi-modal classification leverages complementary information across diverse data sources to enhance predictive performance. However, real-world scenarios subject to operational constraints, such as sensor failures or privacy restrictions, lead to inconsistent modality availability between training...
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- Eviction as Estimation: A Fixed-Lag Smoothing View of Test-Time Memory, and When Measuring Beats Accumulating
A language model with a bounded working memory must repeatedly decide which stored items to keep. Every deployed method decides the moment an item arrives, from the past (StreamingLLM, H2O) or from a guess about the future (SnapKV). We recast the choice as an estimation problem on a hidden signal, w...
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- Reason-Mediated Behavioral Models for Auditing LLM Social Simulators
Large language models are increasingly used as social simulators, including as synthetic survey respondents. Most evaluations ask whether simulated outcomes resemble human outcomes. We argue that this is necessary but too weak: a simulator can match the final answer while using the wrong rationale-d...
- Agentic Permissions Policy Algebra for Taint Confinement in LLM Agents
Autonomous LLM agents processing mixed-confidentiality data face severe security risks from prompt injection attacks and reasoning errors. While dynamic Information Flow Control (IFC) provides structural security guarantees, traditional taint tracking permanently taints an agent's context upon readi...
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- Evaluating the Impact of Explainable AI on Trust in AI-Assisted Code Review
Background: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to automate code review, but the reasoning behind their decisions remains hard to understand. Developers struggle to assess the validity of LLM-generated reviews, making it difficult to gauge how much trust to place in them. The role of ...
- Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Ecosystem: Evolutionary Developments, Challenges, and Future Directions
The development of the Innovative Ecosystem (IE) presents a new paradigm for economic integration, collaborative advancement, and shared achievements. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has significantly accelerated the global processes of digitization, informatization, and intelligence. Explo...
- Tag Questions and the Generational Reversal of Sycophancy Across 45 Language Models
Appending a two-word confirmation tag to a decision question -- "Is X the better choice?" versus "X is the better choice, right?" -- changes whether a language model endorses the choice. We measure this tag effect on 20 frozen, ground-truth-free decisions between two defensible options, counterbalan...
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- Superpixel-Based QUBO for Scalable Quantum-Enhanced Medical Image Segmentation
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