Google, DoD partner up to fight cancer

Welcome back to The Daily Update — We already have more big news from Google and a new study from Harvard and MIT researchers. Here’s the full lineup:

🗞️ The Latest: Google teams up with Department of Defense to build AI-powered microscope

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📸 Business Insight: Workers using AI are up to 40% more productive

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

🗞️ The Latest: Google teams up with Department of Defense to build AI-powered microscope

Google and the U.S. Department of Defense have teamed up to build an AI-powered microscope that will help doctors identify cancer.

What you need to know:

• The Augmented Reality Microscope (ARM) will usually cost $90,000 to $100,000.

• Dr. Nadeem Zafar, a pathologist at the VA hospital in Seattle, used the AI-powered microscope to flag a patient’s aggressive tumor late last year.

• The technology is currently not being used to help diagnose patients, but initial research is promising.

• The DoD’s David Jin says there’s still a “huge” amount of rigorous testing to be done before the ARM can support patient care.

How it works: The ARM is essentially a regular microscope connected to a computer tower that hosts AI models. When a glass slide is prepared and fixed under the microscope, the AI can outline where the cancer is located. The outline appears as a bright green line and the AI also indicates how bad the cancer is.

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📸 Business Insight: Workers using AI are up to 40% more productive

According to a new study conducted by social scientists working with Boston Consulting Group, workers who used ChatGPT to perform 18 different work tasks significantly outperformed peers who didn’t.

Key insights:

• The study analyzed hundreds of consultants across 18 different work tasks.

• Test subjects who used AI finished 12.2% more tasks.

• They completed tasks 25.1% faster.

• AI users also produced 40% higher quality results than other participants.

• Consultants with the lowest initial scores saw the biggest jump in performance when allowed to use AI.

The bottom line: This is yet another study that finds significant productivity gains for workers who embrace AI. Artificial intelligence won’t replace your job if you learn how to use it.

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

• Writing the Rules:​​ The UK’s Competition and Markets authority outlined seven AI principles to guide regulations.

• Guard Down: Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed terabytes of sensitive internal data.

• Funding Frenzy: AI startup Writer raises $100 million for its enterprise-focused generative AI platform.

• Assistant Doctor: New AI tools are helping doctors screen for mental health conditions.

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