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Coauthor roundtable: Reflecting on real world of doctors, developers, patients, and policymakers May 15, 2025

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Peter Lee and his coauthors, Carey Goldberg and Dr. Zak Kohane, reflect on how generative AI is unfolding in real-world healthcare, drawing on earlier guest conversations to examine what’s working, what’s not, and what questions still remain.

Abstracts: Heat Transfer and Deep Learning with Hongxia Hao and Bing Lv May 08, 2025

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Silicon has long borne the burden of heat transfer in electronics, but in a post-Moore’s Law world, researchers like Hongxia Hao and Bing Lv are using AI to discover and design next-generation materials that exceed the limits of silicon’s thermal conductivity.

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Abstracts: Societal AI with Xing Xie May 05, 2025

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New AI models aren’t just changing the world of research; they’re also poised to impact society. Xing Xie talks about Societal AI, a white paper that explores the changing landscape with an eye to future research and improved communication across disciplines.

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The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited: Laws, norms, and ethics for AI in health May 01, 2025

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Healthcare experts Laura Adams, Vardit Ravitsky, and Dr. Roxana Daneshjou discuss responsible AI implementation in medicine, examining governance approaches, shifting patient-provider relationships, and the identification of bias to ensure equitable deployment.

The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited: Empowering patients and healthcare consumers in the age of generative AI Apr 17, 2025

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Evangelist for patient empowerment Dave deBronkart and Manatt Heath’s Christina Farr discuss how generative AI is redefining healthcare by empowering patients, challenging traditional care models, and creating new opportunities for innovation and collaboration.

The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited: Real-world healthcare AI development and deployment—at scale Apr 03, 2025

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Microsoft’s Dr. Matthew Lungren and Epic’s Seth Hain discuss the challenges and opportunities of leveraging generative AI for enhanced patient care and improved clinical documentation and recordkeeping at scale—plus what’s next for the technology in the field.

Ideas: Accelerating Foundation Models Research: AI for all Mar 31, 2025

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Innovative AI research often depends on access to resources. Microsoft wants to help. Technical Advisor Evelyne Viegas and distinguished faculty from two Minority Serving Institutions discuss the benefits of Microsoft’s Accelerating Foundation Models Research program in their lives and research.

The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited: The reality of generative AI in the clinic Mar 20, 2025

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UC San Diego Health’s Dr. Christopher Longhurst and UC San Francisco Health’s Dr. Sara Murray explore how generative AI is changing patient care, clinical workflows, and decision-making and how they envision the technology impacting the future of healthcare.

The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited: An Introduction Mar 06, 2025

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Host Peter Lee, Microsoft Research president, discusses the motivation behind the new series and the GPT-4 encounter that helped him view the tech not only as a potential tool for improving healthcare but a chance to reexamine what it means to care for people.

Ideas: Quantum computing redefined with Chetan Nayak Feb 19, 2025

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Microsoft announced the creation of the first topoconductor and first QPU architecture with a topological core. Dr. Chetan Nayak, a technical fellow of Quantum Hardware at the company, discusses how the breakthroughs are redefining the field of quantum computing.

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