https://fodoom.com/Real, sourced good news about AI.https://fodoom.com/stories/utilities-peak-demand/https://fodoom.com/stories/utilities-peak-demand/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000PlanetUtilities using Oracle's AI-driven Opower programs asked customers to ease off electricity at the busiest moments, with personalised tips and rebates for doing it. Across a record 73 events in 2026, the savings added up to 1 gigawatt of peak demand.https://fodoom.com/stories/blind-veterans-ai-glasses/https://fodoom.com/stories/blind-veterans-ai-glasses/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000AccessibilityThe Georgia Center for the Visually Impaired gave about 50 blind veterans free AI-powered smart glasses, made by Meta, at an event marking White Cane Safety Day. The Atlanta-based center also trains people to use them.https://fodoom.com/stories/als-voice-app/https://fodoom.com/stories/als-voice-app/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000AccessibilityAnne-Marie Poirier lost her ability to speak to ALS. Now she types a few keywords into Vocality, an app built by two young Montreal founders, and it turns them into full sentences spoken in a recreation of her voice.https://fodoom.com/stories/alphagenome-2/https://fodoom.com/stories/alphagenome-2/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000ScienceGoogle DeepMind released AlphaGenome 2, trained on more than 100 million individual cells from 68 tissues. It predicts how a single-letter change in DNA alters what happens inside particular cell types, such as heart muscle or immune cells.https://fodoom.com/stories/smartwatch-blood-pressure/https://fodoom.com/stories/smartwatch-blood-pressure/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000HealthGoogle researchers built an AI that reads the pulse and motion sensors already in a smartwatch, with no blood pressure cuff needed. In a study of 196 people at five US sites, it flagged 65.8% of those with high blood pressure, compared with 55.3% for a standard reading at the doctor's office.https://fodoom.com/stories/ai-tutor-uk-classrooms/https://fodoom.com/stories/ai-tutor-uk-classrooms/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000Kids & FamilyGoogle and the education company Eedi ran a randomised trial with 1,179 students in UK maths classrooms. On the quick checks after each session, students helped by the AI tutor did about as well as students helped by expert humans.https://fodoom.com/stories/small-business-hours/https://fodoom.com/stories/small-business-hours/Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000Work & MoneyIn a survey of 942 US small business owners for the banking platform Bluevine, 48% said AI saves them at least four hours a week, and 14% said it saves ten hours or more.https://fodoom.com/stories/canada-chatbot-bill/https://fodoom.com/stories/canada-chatbot-bill/Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000Safety & RulesCanada's federal government has introduced legislation aimed at AI chatbots, the kind people now use for homework help, advice and customer service.https://fodoom.com/stories/illinois-audits/https://fodoom.com/stories/illinois-audits/Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000Safety & RulesA bill in Illinois, SB 315, would be the first US law requiring independent audits of how frontier AI developers manage safety.https://fodoom.com/stories/als-back-to-work/https://fodoom.com/stories/als-back-to-work/Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000AccessibilityUC Davis researchers fitted a man with ALS with a brain implant whose AI turns his attempted speech into words with about 99% accuracy. He has used it for more than 3,800 hours since 2023 and now works full time as an environmental advocate.https://fodoom.com/stories/pancreatic-cancer-early/https://fodoom.com/stories/pancreatic-cancer-early/Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000HealthMayo Clinic researchers ran their AI over nearly 2,000 routine CT scans, including older scans from people later diagnosed with pancreatic cancer that had looked clear at the time. It caught about 73% of those hidden cases, roughly 16 months before diagnosis on average.https://fodoom.com/stories/new-antibiotic/https://fodoom.com/stories/new-antibiotic/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000ScienceResearchers at McMaster University in Canada built a generative AI model that assembles new drug candidates from roughly 150,000 chemical building blocks. In early tests, it has already designed a new antibiotic.https://fodoom.com/stories/flash-flood-warnings/https://fodoom.com/stories/flash-flood-warnings/Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000PlanetGoogle researchers used AI to comb years of public reports and catalogue more than 2.6 million past floods. That record trained a model that can warn of urban flash floods up to 24 hours ahead, shown free on Google's Flood Hub.https://fodoom.com/stories/breast-screening/https://fodoom.com/stories/breast-screening/Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000HealthThe UK's first full evaluation of AI in breast cancer screening found that adding it to the process raised cancer detection by 10.4%, while also cutting the workload on doctors.https://fodoom.com/stories/scam-calls-billion/https://fodoom.com/stories/scam-calls-billion/Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000Scams & SecurityVirgin Media O2 says its AI system has now labelled more than a billion suspected scam and spam calls, about 70 million a month, and blocks known fraud numbers outright.https://fodoom.com/stories/ai-thinking-visible/https://fodoom.com/stories/ai-thinking-visible/Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000Safety & RulesSome AI models work through problems step by step in writing before they answer. New research found they struggle to control what shows up in that written reasoning.