There are more AI health tools than ever—but how well do they work?
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MIT Technology Review covers the proliferation of AI health tools from Microsoft, Amazon, and OpenAI with concerns about their lack of external evaluation. The Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic over supply chain risks has been temporarily blocked by a judge, suggesting the conflict was unnecessarily escalated.
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Concerns about how little external evaluation AI health tools undergo before public release
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