A new sensor can detect compounds in a person’s breath to quickly diagnose pneumonia and other lung conditions. Rather than sit for a chest X-ray or wait hours for a lab result, a patient may one day take a breath test and get a diagnosis within minutes.

Can AI help patients and their doctors manage heart failure? Researchers developed a deep-learning model to forecast a patient’s heart failure prognosis up to a year in advance.

​​On a typical photonic chip, light travels in wires, but a new system precisely broadcasts light off the chip into free space in a scalable way. This could lead to advanced displays, high-speed optical communications, and larger-scale quantum computers.

Song Han is working to shrink and speed up large AI models, cutting their energy use and lowering their cost. As a guest on President Kornbluth’s Curiosity Unbounded podcast, he discussed why AI is so energy-hungry and the benefits of lighter models.

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