https://theimpactofai.net/story/eu-ai-act-first-harmonised-quality-standard-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-19T18:01:04.000Z The EU’s first harmonised AI Act standard is official—what does it actually cover? https://theimpactofai.net/story/two-stage-ai-day-ahead-electricity-load-forecasting-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-19T17:03:56.000Z A two-stage AI cut day-ahead load errors in two datasets—would it help a live grid? https://theimpactofai.net/story/uk-techfirst-schools-ai-skills-one-million-target-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-19T17:03:56.000Z TechFirst promises AI and computing opportunities for one million young people—what can schools access? https://theimpactofai.net/story/llm-student-depression-screening-output-instability-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-19T16:02:06.000Z Can an LLM screen students for depression reliably? One setup changed its answer in 23.6% of cases https://theimpactofai.net/story/multimodal-ai-endometrial-cancer-risk-small-external-test-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-19T16:02:05.000Z Could pathology and RNA improve endometrial-cancer risk estimates? The external test had eight events https://theimpactofai.net/story/ai-agent-vague-software-requirements-verifier-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-19T15:02:28.000Z Can an AI agent turn vague software requirements into reliable tests? Verification did the heavy lifting https://theimpactofai.net/story/genai-virtual-patient-medical-students-no-gain-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-19T15:02:27.000Z Did a GPT-4o virtual patient prepare medical students better? This study found no measurable gain https://theimpactofai.net/story/ai-agent-cancer-study-reproduction-2190-claims-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-19T13:46:40.000Z Can an AI agent audit cancer studies? A 20-paper test found useful triage—and many false alarms https://theimpactofai.net/story/uk-ai-sovereignty-plan-cst-advice-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-19T12:25:37.000Z UK advisers want an AI sovereignty plan—what would government actually have to do? https://theimpactofai.net/story/johns-hopkins-ai-healthy-aging-nia-renewal-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-19T10:56:44.000Z $20m renewed for AI and healthy ageing—what will patients actually see? https://theimpactofai.net/story/breast-ultrasound-ai-clinical-context-256-patients-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-19T04:04:04.000Z Can clinical context improve breast-ultrasound AI? A 256-patient test is not decisive https://theimpactofai.net/story/us-agencies-ai-agent-incident-response-practices-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-19T03:01:22.000Z US agencies set ten AI-agent incident practices—what changes for operators? https://theimpactofai.net/story/anthropic-public-benefit-fund-five-percent-shares-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-19T01:04:39.000Z Anthropic pledged 5% of its shares to public benefit—what is guaranteed? https://theimpactofai.net/story/ai-lipopeptide-antibiotic-mouse-wounds-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-18T13:03:34.000Z Did AI design an antibiotic that worked in mice? https://theimpactofai.net/story/wifi-localisation-fewer-router-signals-one-building-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-18T12:01:57.000Z A Wi-Fi locator discarded up to 95% of router signals—inside one building https://theimpactofai.net/story/anthropic-public-staff-ai-expectations-gap-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-18T09:57:36.000Z Anthropic staff expect far more AI automation than US workers—what does that prove? https://theimpactofai.net/story/reflection-beam-open-weights-safety-evidence-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-18T09:02:04.000Z Reflection released Beam's weights—what can outsiders verify? https://theimpactofai.net/story/deepseek-v41-flash-1017-company-benchmarks-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-18T07:04:54.000Z DeepSeek's open-weight update won some agent tests—who ran them? https://theimpactofai.net/story/imf-asia-ai-job-postings-relative-decline-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-18T05:25:30.000Z AI-exposed job adverts fell in Asia—but 10% is a relative estimate https://theimpactofai.net/story/ai-organ-scans-hcc-immunotherapy-association-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-18T02:00:58.000Z Routine scans revealed liver-cancer survival signals—but not a treatment rule https://theimpactofai.net/story/alzheimer-icap-blood-test-exploratory-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-18T02:00:58.000Z An Alzheimer’s blood test found a signal—the blind test had 23 people https://theimpactofai.net/story/federated-causal-healthcare-review-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-18T02:00:58.000Z Keeping patient data local does not make an AI health claim causal https://theimpactofai.net/story/factory-edge-ai-energy-one-line-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-18T01:03:23.000Z A factory reported 26% lower energy use with AI—but only on one line https://theimpactofai.net/story/malware-classifier-benchmark-not-live-attacks-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-18T01:03:23.000Z A malware classifier hit 100% on a benchmark—not on live attacks https://theimpactofai.net/story/cancer-histology-hierarchical-model-second-dataset-gap-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-18T00:15:00.000Z A cancer-image model scored 98.5%—then fell to 82.0% on a second dataset https://theimpactofai.net/story/solar-forecast-zero-output-postprocessing-turkiye-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-18T00:15:00.000Z A solar forecast fix cut percentage error—mostly by learning when output is zero https://theimpactofai.net/story/llm-depression-diary-signal-not-diagnosis-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-17T23:01:00.000Z LLMs found depression signals in one-minute diaries—but not a diagnosis https://theimpactofai.net/story/lung-nodule-model-cross-cohort-calibration-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-17T23:01:00.000Z A lung-nodule model travelled better—but its labels were not pathology https://theimpactofai.net/story/llm-spectra-features-random-forest-better-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-17T21:59:24.000Z LLMs read compact spectra better—but a random forest still won https://theimpactofai.net/story/stock-model-calendar-leakage-shap-explanation-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-17T21:59:24.000Z A stock model scored 63.84%—a calendar rule did better https://theimpactofai.net/story/liver-cancer-ai-risk-korea-low-base-rate-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-17T21:03:56.000Z A liver-cancer model ranked risk well—but the cancer rate was 0.062% https://theimpactofai.net/story/oncology-ai-consultation-prep-small-workflow-study-2026 The Impact of AIen 2026-10-17T21:03:56.000Z AI summaries cut perceived oncology workload—but 12 of 33 were incomplete