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Microsoft's New AI Tool Outperforms Doctors 4-to-1 in Diagnostic Accuracy

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Microsoft's new AI diagnostic system achieved 80% accuracy in diagnosing patients compared to 20% for human doctors, while reducing costs by 20%, according to company research published Monday. The MAI Diagnostic Orchestrator queries multiple leading AI models including OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, Meta's Llama, and xAI's Grok in what the company describes as a "chain-of-debate style" approach. The system was tested against 304 case studies from the New England Journal of Medicine using Microsoft's Sequential Diagnosis Benchmark, which breaks down each case into step-by-step diagnostic processes that mirror how human physicians work. Microsoft CEO of AI Mustafa Suleyman called the development "a genuine step toward medical superintelligence."

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Skyrocketing HBM Will Push Micron Through $45 Billion And Beyond

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Micron Technology has not just filled in a capacity shortfall for more high bandwidth stacked DRAM to feed GPU and XPU accelerators for AI and HPC. …

Skyrocketing HBM Will Push Micron Through $45 Billion And Beyond was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Microsoft Authenticator Will Stop Supporting Passwords

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Avantare writes: Microsoft Authenticator houses your passwords and lets you sign into all of your Microsoft accounts using a PIN, facial recognition such as Windows Hello, or other biometric data, like a fingerprint. Authenticator can be used in other ways, such as verifying you're logging in if you forgot your password, or using two-factor authentication as an extra layer of security for your Microsoft accounts. In June, Microsoft stopped letting users add passwords to Authenticator, but here's a timeline of other changes you can expect, according to Microsoft: July 2025: You won't be able to use the autofill password function. August 2025: You'll no longer be able to use saved passwords.

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