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Stanford Medicine just released a model that uses biological signals to spot disease risks after a single night of rest. It turns eight hours of unconscious data into a diagnostic report. We also have the results of the largest creativity study in history. Researchers found that models can now out-think the average person on word association tasks, though the top percent of human writers still hold the advantage.

In today’s Generative AI Newsletter:

Stanford Medicine built a new system called SleepFM. It looks at just one night of sleep data to predict the risk for over 100 different health conditions. The AI treats your body's signals like a language. It looks for tiny mix-ups between your brain, heart, and breathing that usually show up long before you actually feel sick. This turns a regular sleep test into a full health checkup. While one night of sleep can sometimes be affected by outside noise, this tool helps find problems that doctors used to miss.

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This fits into a new trend of "passive" testing, where your health is checked without you having to do anything extra. The main challenge now is figuring out what doctors should do once the AI rings the alarm. Right now, the technology is moving faster than the official plans for how to treat these early warnings.

Researchers from the University of Montreal and Mila compared AI against 100,000 human participants in the largest creativity study conducted to date. Findings show frontier models now consistently outperform average human scores on divergent thinking tasks, specifically in generating unrelated word associations. However, a creativity ceiling remains: the top 10% of humans still outperform AI in complex narrative work, such as poetry and storytelling. This research reframes AI as a high-floor tool for the general public rather than a replacement for elite creators.

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This is synthetic talent. Laboratories are redefining originality as statistical probability. The challenge is distinguishing novelty from recombination. Without metrics for creative intent, we risk saturating professional environments with average content, favoring algorithmic speed over human innovation.

Researchers at NYU Langone have deployed an AI system within electronic health records to identify patients requiring post-acute care, such as rehab or nursing facilities, at the point of admission. Unlike traditional models that use billing codes, this tool employs natural language processing to analyze unstructured physician notes in real-time. By extracting data on seven key risk factors, the model generates a "Risk Snapshot" that is 94% shorter than raw clinical documentation, making it easier to process.

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This can be called "hospital-as-an-OS" where healthcare systems use algorithms to manage recovery logistics amid staffing shortages. The challenge is ensuring operational speed does not prioritize turnover over patient readiness. Without transparency in score generation, clinical trajectories risk being dictated by bed availability rather than medical necessity. Efficiency should not become a proxy for medical clearance.

UC Berkeley researchers developed a framework to automate High Energy Physics (HEP) analysis using LLM agents. The system targets the coding bottleneck at facilities like CERN. By deploying agents for data processing and visualization, frontier models like GPT-5 and Claude 3.5 manage scientific pipelines that require human specialists . This bridges raw collision data and publishable insights.

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As labs face data tsunamis, they are turning to AI to perform the role of researchers. The challenge is ensuring agents do not identify statistical noise as new particles. Without physics-informed constraints, LLMs risk automating bad science at scale. The future depends on moving from agents that write code to those that understand the underlying physics.