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GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Toward population-scale discovery with efficient pathology foundation models
| Naoto Usuyama, Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu, and Tristan Naumann
What if pathology foundation models could do more with less? GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash cut computational demands while maintaining strong performance, opening the door to larger studies and broader exploration.
EvoLib: Turning experience into evolving knowledge
| Weijia Xu, Alessandro Sordoni, Zelalem Gero, Michel Galley, Eric Yuan, and Jianfeng Gao
LLMs do not get smarter just by remembering more. EvoLib turns experience into evolving knowledge, taking reusable skills and insights that help models learn and adapt across tasks long after deployment.
Talos: Scaling rare disease diagnosis with automated, iterative genomic reanalysis
| Jeremiah (Miah) Wander and Cas Simons
Talos was built to help resolve a major bottleneck in genomic medicine: human review time. The open-source system recovered 90% of in-scope diagnoses while surfacing just 1.3 candidate variants per patient for expert review.
Tyger moves the most demanding MRI processing to the cloud, helping researchers turn raw signals into readable images – meaning results in hours rather than days or weeks.
UniRG: Scaling medical imaging report generation with multimodal reinforcement learning
| Sheng Zhang, Flora Liu, Guanghui Qin, Mu Wei, and Hoifung Poon
AI can help generate medical image reports, but today’s models struggle with varying reporting schemes. Learn how UniRG uses reinforcement learning to boost performance of medical vision-language models.
In the news | Ragon Institute
Ava Amini and collaborators receive Bits to Bytes grant
The project represents a significant step forward in understanding immune responses at the tissue level. By generating and analyzing large datasets using artificial intelligence and machine learning, the team will develop tools to measure and predict how immune cells interact…
In the news | Fast Company
What 11 top designers want to redesign in 2026
From look-alike SUVs to AI interfaces, designers from Figma, Microsoft, Pentagram, and more reveal the objects, places, and experiences they’re working to improve this year.
GigaTIME: Scaling tumor microenvironment modeling using virtual population generated by multimodal AI
| Hoifung Poon, Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu, Naoto Usuyama, and Sheng Wang
Using AI-generated virtual populations, Microsoft researchers uncovered hidden cellular patterns that could reshape how we understand and treat cancer.
Reimagining healthcare delivery and public health with AI
| Peter Lee, Dr. Umair Shah, and Dr. Gianrico Farrugia
Former Washington State Secretary of Health Dr. Umair Shah and Mayo Clinic CEO Dr. Gianrico Farrugia explore how healthcare leaders are approaching AI when it comes to public health, care delivery, the healthcare-research connection, and the patient experience.