What’s happening in Boston right now is a once in a generation to chance to change our future. - Preserve 3am last call - Preserve extended 4am MBTA service - Legalize happy hour - Remove liquor license limit

Over the past month, we (@AdamMeier20, @JTLonsdale) have been working on a state bill that would permit AI to practice medicine - prescribing, diagnosing, referring, and ordering - with some oversight and guard rails. We want the technology community to be able to solve important problems for society, and there are few matters bigger than access and cost of healthcare. We have sought feedback from different groups, but are eager to hear from more builders: does this let you harness AI for the biggest impact on the US healthcare system? We are eager to hear from states as well: what healthcare problems and patient populations are most in need? Done right, this bill should be a win for patients, taxpayers, physicians, and governments. AI should benefit ordinary Americans. Tell us what we got right, what we got wrong, and where we should go from here. We will still need federal clarity on clinical AI, but states will be important stakeholders in any regulatory regime. Reimbursement will be a topic for future discussion too.

This is a major international scandal. Thank you for highlighting it. We’re making illegal fishing around the world a major focus of US foreign policy.

Around the world, the total toxicity and ecological harm from agricultural pesticides are rising, despite recent United Nations commitments to halve pesticide use and risks by 2030, according to a new study in Science. The findings establish a global, toxicity-weighted baseline for pesticide use and identify a subset of pesticides, crops, and countries driving the most biodiversity impacts. scim.ag/3ZXmwxL

what happened in 2015?

The U.S. is losing its competitive advantage in scientific research. This new working paper uses 44 million publications and shows a massive global shift: -Since 1980, the U.S. share of scientific output has fallen from ~40% to 15%. -In that time period, China has risen from near 0 to ~32% overall. -This is also true in top-journal papers. -This isn’t just more scientists; it's higher per-researcher productivity. The U.S. still leads in biomedical science. China now dominates engineering & physical sciences. Bottom line: Global science is democratizing. U.S. scientific dominance is no longer guaranteed.

The U.S. is losing its competitive advantage in scientific research. This new working paper uses 44 million publications and shows a massive global shift: -Since 1980, the U.S. share of scientific output has fallen from ~40% to 15%. -In that time period, China has risen from near 0 to ~32% overall. -This is also true in top-journal papers. -This isn’t just more scientists; it's higher per-researcher productivity. The U.S. still leads in biomedical science. China now dominates engineering & physical sciences. Bottom line: Global science is democratizing. U.S. scientific dominance is no longer guaranteed.