😺 Doctor burnout gets an AI fix...

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Welcome, humans.

Happy Friday! Robot updates are a good way to track AI progress (they’re AI, but in the real world). Plus, they often make us laugh—cause robots are just so stinkin’ weird!

Here’s three prototypes that caught our eye this week:

How many of you would buy a WeedWarden right now? Cut to my dad, feverishly raising his hand… actually, he’d probably only buy it if it ALSO whacked gophers.

The cool part about WeedWarden is it won the “best Prototype Award” at the University of Waterloo—if you wanna learn more about it, check it out here.

However, the most impressive demo we saw this week is probably this video that claims AGI (when AI can do everything a human can) has been confirmed.

Let’s just say it nearly knocked us over when we saw it…

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

We explain why you can expect a lot more AI at your next doctor’s visit.
Perplexity launched a new tool to built apps and charts called Perplexity Labs.
The NY Times signed an AI licensing deal with Amazon.
Delaware hired a bank to evaluate OpenAI’s restructuring plan (ahead of an IPO).

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Don’t be surprised when your doctor asks to record you…

The WSJ just published a new piece revealing how doctors everywhere are using AI listening and transcription services. These systems record doctor-patient conversations and generate clinical notes, tackling healthcare's biggest burnout driver.

Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot (formerly Dax) currently dominates the doc’s office. The tech company’s ambient AI solution has been rapidly expanding across healthcare:

Tampa General Hospital has 300 providers testing it with over 15K patient visits.
Ardent Health has nearly 100 providers piloting the tech.
Industry-wide results show 40-50% improvement in documentation time.

When they're NOT Copilot, they're Abridge. Microsoft’s challenger just raised $250M and is taking the fight directly to major health systems like Kaiser, Sutter, Yale, and Emory. CEO Shiv Rao claims they've “never lost a head-to-head” comparison against Microsoft in evaluations.

Both systems work the same way: The doctor taps a button, has a normal conversation, and when they finish—notes are ready, complete with medical terms and billing codes.

Why this matters: in a word, burnout. Here's the brutal math behind it:

Doctors spend 2 hours on documentation for every 1 hour with patients.
40% of doctors want out within 3 years.
27% of nurses plan to leave within 12 months.

For its part, Abridge reported a 60% reduction in cognitive burden within six weeks and 50% less burnout within months.

As one doctor told them: “My son asked why I wasn't working at dinner. I explained that Abridge lets mommy come home early and eat dinner with her family.”

This is cool, but… having AI constantly listening to your most private health conversations raises obvious privacy concerns—especially given that 43% of recent healthcare data breaches involved Microsoft 365, and these systems create centralized repositories of sensitive patient data that could be compromised if hacked.

Our take: The other week, I (Grant) was at the doctor and was asked if I was okay with the session being recorded. I asked if it was AI. My doctor said yes, and confessed they were the last AI holdout at their practice because they preferred talking to people and taking their own notes.

This sparked something important: AI's biggest win will be helping us be more present. Instead of frantically taking notes the whole time, doctors can now actually chat with patients and be in the moment, knowing AI is handling the documentation. This could eventually be the case for most screen-based work we do, too—scary thought for introverts everywhere, I know.

So anyway, don’t be spooked when your doctor asks if they can record you at your next visit. The AI usually removes all the messy, interesting personal details anyway.

Check out our full AI doc piece here!

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Prompt Tip of the Day

Just getting started with AI? Check out this video from creator Enovair with 12 prompt tips (#1 is the most important) you can use to improve your results ASAP.

We really like how Enovair explains a lot of the extra tools and features (like Canvas or Custom GPTs) that ChatGPT offers that you might not know about.

Check out May Prompt Tip Digest here.

Treats To Try.

Perplexity Labs is a new feature for Pro users of AI search tool Perplexity—it does complex research for you, pulling financial reports and web data to create custom dashboards, charts, and mini web apps. (demo, read more).
FLUX.1 KONTEXT makes it easier to edit your photos with simple text commands like “remove her hat” or “make it snow” (read more)—try it here.
You can actually run DeepSeek’s new R1 model on your computer locally and offline using LM Studio, letting you chat with AI without sending your data anywhere—all it takes is just 4GB to download—here’s how.
Chatterbox generates ultra-realistic speech from your text with full emotional control (plus its open source)—try it here, compare it to to Eleven Labs here.
1. There’s also EVI-3 from Hume, which you can try here—love their UI.
Tyce is kinda like a standalone Canvas app for docs—if you’re still drafting your docs in Google docs, try this and see if you like it better (free version = GPT-4).
For fun / whoever needs it: brainrot gamifies your screen time to help keep your focus (and cute lil’ brain avatar) healthy—free to try.

See our top 51 AI Tools for Business here!

Around the Horn.

Whoever spent $125 on Gemini Ultra and used their credits on this fake news report about feline aquatic sports, we salute your service—they apparently got 12.5K credits, used Veo 2 Fast for 1,250+ videos (vs. just 83 with Veo 3), and only used Veo 3 for the talking parts.

Speaking of robots: HuggingFace unveiled two new ones, HopeJr (whose parts and materials are listed here) and MiniReachy (a $250 cute lil’ guy!).
Times are hard for media companies—the NYT just signed an AI licensing deal with Amazon (despite its ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI), and Business Insider just laid off 21% of its staff over “traffic sensitivity.”
The US state of Delaware’s attorney general hired a bank to evaluate OpenAI’s restructuring plan to convert to a public benefit corporation, which OpenAI’s CFO Sarah Friar says opens the company up for an IPO.
- The bank will investigate how much equity the non-profit will get, since Elon Musk bid the valuation of the non-profit up to $97B.
Elon Musk also apparently tried to stop Trump’s latest AI deal in the Middle East, dubbed “Stargate UAE”, telling insiders Trump wouldn’t approve it unless xAI and Grok were part of the deal—not clear if he got in on it or not tho!

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Intelligent Insights

Ethan Mollick seems to think we’re severely underestimating what OpenAI’s smartest model, o3, can do—in fact, he argues that organizations need to change in order to start reaping the true benefits of AI.
Researchers developed an AI test that can predict which men could benefit from a promising drug for prostate cancer (Abiraterone)—read more.
Did you know some inboxes have a pretty strict KB count that cuts off our email if surpassed (cough GMAIL cough), effectively limiting how much cool stuff we can share w/ y’all? To fix that, we’ve created a new Intelligent Insights Digest—check the whole month of May’s insights here!