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August 12, 2026

OpenAI & DeepMind

AI Research (general)

$\beta$-VAEs as Effective Theories: Tolerance-Dependent Dimension

arXiv cs.LG (Machine Learning) · Aug 12

$\beta$-VAEs as Effective Theories: Tolerance-Dependent Dimension

$\texttt{DisMorph}$: learning to disentangle technical distortions from true biological change

arXiv cs.AI · Aug 12

$\texttt{DisMorph}$: learning to disentangle technical distortions from true biological change

$A^2E$ : An End-to-End Agent Auditing Engine

arXiv cs.AI · Aug 12

$A^2E$ : An End-to-End Agent Auditing Engine

360CityArena: A Realistic Virtual Urban Navigation Benchmark for Embodied Agents

arXiv cs.AI · Aug 12

360CityArena: A Realistic Virtual Urban Navigation Benchmark for Embodied Agents

A case study of evaluating AI agents on a neuroscience data-to-discovery pipeline

arXiv cs.LG (Machine Learning) · Aug 12

A case study of evaluating AI agents on a neuroscience data-to-discovery pipeline

A Combined Feature-Based Framework for Disguise and Spoofing Detection in Face Recognition Systems

arXiv cs.AI · Aug 12

A Combined Feature-Based Framework for Disguise and Spoofing Detection in Face Recognition Systems

A Comparative Study in Surgical AI: Potential and Limitations of Data, Compute, and Scaling

arXiv cs.AI · Aug 12

A Comparative Study in Surgical AI: Potential and Limitations of Data, Compute, and Scaling

A Fair Objective for Human-Empowerment-Preserving AI: Desiderata, Design, and Likely Behavioral Consequences

arXiv cs.AI · Aug 12

A Fair Objective for Human-Empowerment-Preserving AI: Desiderata, Design, and Likely Behavioral Consequences

A foundation model of numerical intelligence with cross-disciplinary generalization

arXiv cs.AI · Aug 12

A foundation model of numerical intelligence with cross-disciplinary generalization

A Graph Neural Network--Guided Genetic Algorithm for Physical Internet Supply Chain Optimization under Cost Uncertainty

arXiv cs.LG (Machine Learning) · Aug 12

A Graph Neural Network--Guided Genetic Algorithm for Physical Internet Supply Chain Optimization under Cost Uncertainty

AI in Biotech & High-Impact Journals

A biocompatible hemostatic and antibacterial gelatin-based wound dressing containing calcium carbonate nanoparticles loaded with gentamicin and curcumin

Nature Medicine · Aug 12

A biocompatible hemostatic and antibacterial gelatin-based wound dressing containing calcium carbonate nanoparticles loaded with gentamicin and curcumin

A foundation model for acute abdomen diagnosis stratification and triage on noncontrast computed tomography

Nature Medicine · Aug 12

A foundation model for acute abdomen diagnosis stratification and triage on noncontrast computed tomography

Attitude towards deprescribing in patients with mental illness, their caregivers, and its correlates

Nature Medicine · Aug 12

Attitude towards deprescribing in patients with mental illness, their caregivers, and its correlates

Clinicians vs. artificial intelligence in patient outcome prediction in the intensive care unit

Nature Medicine · Aug 12

Clinicians vs. artificial intelligence in patient outcome prediction in the intensive care unit

Dynamics of in vivo immune remodeling in Ph+ all patients receiving frontline ponatinib and blinatumomab therapy

Nature Medicine · Aug 12

Dynamics of in vivo immune remodeling in Ph+ all patients receiving frontline ponatinib and blinatumomab therapy

Efficient hybrid CNN–ViT framework for pulmonary nodule classification in CT images using feature-level optimization

Nature Medicine · Aug 12

Efficient hybrid CNN–ViT framework for pulmonary nodule classification in CT images using feature-level optimization

History-conditioned temporal machine learning for personalized ventilator weaning in ARDS

Nature Medicine · Aug 12

History-conditioned temporal machine learning for personalized ventilator weaning in ARDS

Human in vitro skeletal muscle models recapitulate age-related atrophy and contractile decline induced by aged serum

Nature Medicine · Aug 12

Human in vitro skeletal muscle models recapitulate age-related atrophy and contractile decline induced by aged serum

Longitudinal benchmarking of artificial intelligence models for the differential diagnosis of oral mucosal lesions: a controlled clinical validation study

Nature Medicine · Aug 12

Longitudinal benchmarking of artificial intelligence models for the differential diagnosis of oral mucosal lesions: a controlled clinical validation study

Natural language processing application in electronic health records studies for psychosis: a systematic review

Nature Medicine · Aug 12

Natural language processing application in electronic health records studies for psychosis: a systematic review

AI in Computational Pathology

A meta-learning method with reduced data requirements for training and updating deep learning models on wearable devices

Nature Pathology · Jul 31

A meta-learning method with reduced data requirements for training and updating deep learning models on wearable devices

End-to-end multimodal pathology foundation model with clinical dialogue

Nature Pathology · Jul 31

End-to-end multimodal pathology foundation model with clinical dialogue

A benchmark study of vision and pathology foundation models for computational pathology

Nature Pathology · Jul 24

A benchmark study of vision and pathology foundation models for computational pathology

Pathology-CoT: learning visual chain-of-thought agents from expert whole-slide image diagnosis behaviour

Nature Pathology · Jul 24

Pathology-CoT: learning visual chain-of-thought agents from expert whole-slide image diagnosis behaviour

Evaluation of corticosteroid treatment in patients with post-traumatic ascending myelopathy and spinal cord injury: three case reports and review of the literature

Nature Pathology · Jul 15

Evaluation of corticosteroid treatment in patients with post-traumatic ascending myelopathy and spinal cord injury: three case reports and review of the literature

Implementing trust in non-small cell lung cancer diagnosis with a conformalized uncertainty-aware AI framework

Nature Pathology · Jun 23

Implementing trust in non-small cell lung cancer diagnosis with a conformalized uncertainty-aware AI framework

Towards robust foundation models for digital pathology

Nature Pathology · Jun 11

Towards robust foundation models for digital pathology

Unintended consequences of legacy oversight in digital medicine

Nature Pathology · May 20

Unintended consequences of legacy oversight in digital medicine

Shock-scattering micro-histotripsy-aided fine needle aspiration for enhanced biomarker profiling and cytopathology

Nature Pathology · May 02

Shock-scattering micro-histotripsy-aided fine needle aspiration for enhanced biomarker profiling and cytopathology

Boosting pathology foundation models via few-shot prompt-tuning for rare cancer subtyping

Nature Pathology · Apr 11

Boosting pathology foundation models via few-shot prompt-tuning for rare cancer subtyping