OpenAI's GPT-5 posted impressive results on medical reasoning benchmarks, surpassing both GPT-4o and human medical professionals by substantial margins across diagnostic and multimodal tasks in a new study from Emory University.

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The shift from GPT-4o's near-human performance to GPT-5's superiority over medical professionals shows we're approaching a point where physicians NOT using AI in clinical settings could be regarded as malpractice. Plus, the gap is only heading in one direction as intelligence scales.

Alibaba's Qwen team just dropped ‘Qwen-Image-Edit’, a 20B parameter open-source image editing model that tackles both pixel-perfect edits and style transformations while keeping the original characters and objects intact.

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Image generation has rapidly advanced, but we're only now starting to see the first powerful AI editing tools emerge. With Qwen open-sourcing its Image-Edit model and the buzz around the mysterious “nano-banana” model gaining attention in LM Arena, it seems that precise, natural language-driven image editing is on the verge of becoming reality.

Google just unveiled the Pixel 10 lineup at its star-studded ‘Made by Google‘ event, powered by a new Tensor G5 chip and packed with 20+ AI features, including advanced photo editing, ‘Magic Cue’ suggestions, live translations, and more.

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It’s hard to overstate the drastic difference in AI features now available in Google’s lineup compared to Apple. Google’s Rick Osterloh even seemingly took a shot at the rival, noting “a lot of broken promises” with AI in phones. Google continues to ship, making Apple’s issues an even bigger setback in the smartphone wars.

Google just announced that the company is replacing its AI Assistant with Gemini across its Nest home speaker and display lines this fall, bringing advanced conversational AI, Gemini Live, and multi-device awareness to smart home control.

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Between Amazon’s AI revamp of Alexa, Samsung’s AI appliance ecosystem, Apple’s rumored devices, and Google, the race to bring AI into the home is getting more competitive than ever — and while it still feels like we’re only in the early stages of AI hardware actually being useful, the upgrades are coming fast.

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