Brave Canadian Professor Gad Saad …”It is Islam”

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The Deep Mind: AI agents enter telemedicine via Amazon Health. Quote: “Amazon is bringing AI to One Medical, its primary care service, to help patients better understand their health and connect with appropriate care.”

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AI agents enter telemedicine via Amazon Health
Amazon is bringing AI to One Medical, its primary care service, to help patients better understand their health and connect with appropriate care.
Amazon’s new Health AI agentic assistant in the One Medical app can field health questions and manage tasks like booking appointments and tracking medications. The key differentiator: it’s personalized for each patient using their medical records, lab results, and current prescriptions.
Users can ask Health AI to explain lab results, answer questions about symptoms and conditions, provide wellness guidance, and more. If Health AI detects that the patient could be better treated by a human clinician, it will recommend the appropriate care and even make an appointment. It can also help renew prescriptions through Amazon Pharmacy.
Because health is such a sensitive matter, Amazon shared additional details regarding security in the blog post to ease user concerns. For instance, Amazon reassures users that their personal health data is protected with HIPAA-compliant privacy and security safeguards. 
The company also shared that the app was also codeveloped with One Medical’s clinical leadership in “every stage of development, embedding multiple patient safety guardrails and clinical protocols.” 
The app is available to Amazon One Medical members in the One Medical app.
Even though 2026 just kicked off, AI applications for health are already among the hottest consumer AI trends of the year. For example, this Amazon announcement follows OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT Health and Anthropic’s launch of Claude for Healthcare earlier this month, both meant to help users better understand their health data. This growing interest reflects demand for practical AI applications that can meaningfully improve lives, a task that developers and companies are working to advance as quickly as possible to address skepticism about AI’s value. However, it is worth recognizing that it is still very early, which will likely mean putting up with bugs and challenges for early adopters of AI health tech.

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The Doomsday Clock: In 2025, the Doomsday Clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight because trends that had “deeply concerned the Science and Security Board continued, and despite unmistakable signs of danger, national leaders and their societies have failed to do what is needed to change course.” (Credit: Jamie Christiani)

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In 2025, the Doomsday Clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight because trends that had “deeply concerned the Science and Security Board continued, and despite unmistakable signs of danger, national leaders and their societies have failed to do what is needed to change course.” (Credit: Jamie Christiani)
DOOMSDAY CLOCK Watch the 2026 Doomsday Clock announcement tomorrow

For 79 years, the Clock has served as a global reminder of the risks humanity must face to survive. Currently, the Clock sits at 89 seconds to midnight—the closest it has ever been. Tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. ET, Bulletin leadership will join Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Ressa to unveil the 2026 Clock setting. Learn more.Good BoyA retired Navy General who is grieving the loss of his wife finds new love for life after befriending a stray mutt in this short story by Kerri Brady Long. However, there is more to this dog than meets the eye because war is in the air between China and the United States. This magazine article is available to all readers for a limited time.‘Greenland belongs to its people’: The US scientists speaking out against Trump’s imperial aggressionYarrow Axford has led or participated in more than a dozen research trips to Greenland and was one of 225 scientists who signed a “Statement in Solidarity with Greenland” earlier this month. In the statement, they “vehemently oppose President Trump’s aggressive stance regarding Greenland and reiterate—as Greenland’s leaders have clearly stated—that Greenland is not anyone’s to ‘buy’ or ‘take.'” Read more.The underground networkTrillions of miles of tiny fungal tubes embedded in soil transport nutrients to crops and other plants and fight climate change by storing carbon. Scientists are racing to understand how these fungi—increasingly under threat—function, reports journalist Paul Tullis. Read more.
DOOMSDAY CLOCKThe current Doomsday Clock statementIn 2025, the Bulletin‘s Science and Security Board set the Doomsday Clock the closest it had ever been to midnight. Ahead of the 2026 Doomsday Clock announcement on Tuesday, the 2025 Clock statement provides insight on trends the Board considers in setting the Clock. Read more.DOOMSDAY CLOCKCommonly asked questions about the Doomsday ClockEach year, the Bulletin is flooded with questions about the Clock—who created it, what its purpose is, and more. Former Bulletin executive director and publisher Kennette Benedict provides answers in the Doomsday Clock FAQ. Read more.
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Please listen to Ayaan Hirsi Ali. We need to understand

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EU Natural Gas prices are up 40.3% in the last month. Comment: Ireland being the outlier mostly dependent on UK … and the weather is very cold

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EU Natural Gas prices are up 40.3% in the last month.

IN PART, THIS IS THE PRICE THE EU PAYS FOR CUTTING OFF RUSSIAN GAS.

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Women covered head to toe, space for eyes only … this is not part of our future.

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Categorical assuarances to Gorbachev by Jack Matlock, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1987-1991….

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Axios News:Exclusive: OpenAI wants to be a scientific research partner

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AI is increasingly being used as a research collaborator for mathematicians and scientists, per a new report from OpenAI shared exclusively with Axios.

Why it matters: OpenAI argues that AI can make scientists more productive by upping the amount of research that can get done, ultimately leading to more life-saving breakthroughs.

By the numbers: Per OpenAI’s report, an internal analysis of a random sample of anonymized ChatGPT conversations from January to December of last year showed:

  • Average weekly message counts on “advanced hard-science topics” grew nearly 47% over the year.
  • As of January of this year, nearly 1.3 million weekly users are discussing “advanced topics in hard science” with an average of 8.4 million ChatGPT messages on those topics.

Topics include graduate and research-level math, physics, chemistry, biology and engineering.

  • Among the OpenAI users and messages sampled, ChatGPT was used most for advanced research in computer science, data science and AI.

What they’re saying: “More researchers are using advanced reasoning systems to make progress on open problems, interpret complex data, and iterate faster in experimental work,” Kevin Weil, VP of OpenAI for Science, said in the report.

  • “We’re still early, but the pace of adoption and the quality of
    the work suggest science is entering a new acceleration phase.”

How it works: Most scientists and engineers use ChatGPT for writing and communications, per the report. The smallest share use it for analysis and calculations.

  • GPT-5.2 has now “progressed past competition level performance toward mathematical discovery,” according to the report, with the most users turning to it for structural equation models.
  • The report also shows frequent ChatGPT use for computational chemistry and particle physics, among other types of biology, chemistry and physics work.

What we’re watching: OpenAI is urging policymakers to enhance science and research uses of AI, including scaling AI skilling, opening up data and frontier AI access to more people, and modernizing AI infrastructure.

Disclosure: Axios and OpenAI have a licensing and technology agreement that allows OpenAI to access part of Axios’ story archives while helping fund the launch of Axios into four local cities and providing some AI tools. Axios has editorial independence.

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Axios: Blunt AI advice from CEO Jim VandeHei

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We’re rolling out two new Axios shows to build on our popular interview series, “The Axios Show.”

Why it matters: This is a hinge moment for humanity. Job 1 for Axios is to help you navigate, understand and thrive … with clinical, essential, useful coverage on all platforms.

The short-video shows:

1. “Just Lead!“ This series, debuting this morning, brings our blunt advice, based on real-world experience in life and business, on how to better lead yourself, friends, families and work colleagues.

  • 🚨 First up: Blunt advice on AI, based on Jim’s recent letter to his family and Axios readers on the fierce urgency to understand and use AI. The episode includes the reaction of his wife, an AI skeptic, and daughter, an AI agnostic.
  • Please watch, share and follow us on YouTube!

2. Next week, we’ll debut a series based on our “Behind the Curtain” columns — cleverly called, “Behind the Curtain.” 😉

  • Watch debut of “Just Lead!”: “Blunt advice about AI.”
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President Trump indicates he will end Income Tax in the US.

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