Generative AI

The FDA has cleared over 1,357 AI-powered medical devices. Every single one of them used old-school AI — pattern recognition, image classification, signal analysis. Not one ran on a large language model. That just changed. RecovryAI, a San Francisco startup fresh out of stealth, announced that the FDA granted Breakthrough Device Designation to its generative AI chatbot for post-surgical recovery. It’s the first time the agency has given this designation to anything powered by an LLM — and the implications go way beyond one startup’s product. ...

The highest court in the country just said what everyone already knew — machines aren’t authors. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Thaler v. Perlmutter, the eight-year legal crusade to get copyright protection for art made entirely by AI. By refusing the case, the Court left lower court rulings intact: no human author, no copyright. Period. It’s not a surprise. But the consequences are enormous. The Guy Who Tried to Copyright a Robot’s Painting Stephen Thaler, a Missouri computer scientist, has been fighting this battle since 2018. He filed a copyright application for an image called “A Recent Entrance to Paradise” — a surreal piece his AI system DABUS generated without human creative input. ...