China
Five of 475 studies on surgical AI in poorer countries came from low-income countries
A scoping review gathered 475 studies of artificial intelligence in surgical care across low-income and middle-income countries. 305 came from China, five came from low-income countries, and 12 reported reaching a real patient care pathway.
African developers chose Chinese models before any government signed anything
Ten African countries signed an AI pact with China in Shanghai in July. The adoption it looks like it caused had already happened, in the hands of developers who could download the weights while the American onboarding queue was still running.
An AI exposure estimate was checked against vacancy data, and it moved the same way
AI exposure scores are hypotheses, and their value lies in predicting correctly. Here is one that was checked against vacancy data, and moved the same way.
Consultation is the cheap rung
The obvious objection to an 81,000-person AI consultation is representativeness. It is the weaker objection, and my own research is why.
China's 29-country AI alliance, and what it is buying
China closed the World AI Conference in Shanghai by launching a 29-country AI alliance. A few weeks earlier, at the G7, Anthropic and Google DeepMind called for an American-led coalition.
An RCT on patient-facing medical AI, and what it measured
A randomised trial in China (n = 2,069), published in Nature Medicine, tested an LLM chatbot that conducts the patient intake interview before a specialist visit and hands the clinician a structured summary.