Radiology is adding AI alongside physicians instead of replacing them, with AI matching or exceeding human performance in image interpretation for some tasks. By early 2026, about three-quarters of the 1,400 AI-enabled medical devices cleared by the US FDA were for radiology. Radiologists’ roles shift toward using AI to speed reporting, flag urgent cases, and detect abnormalities that may be missed, while the number of practitioners continues to grow.
Apple introduced the M6 chip for the new Mac mini and the M5 Ultra chip for the new Mac Studio to improve on-device AI model performance. The Mac Studio with the M5 Ultra can use up to 512GB of unified memory. The lineup shifts toward running larger local AI models on consumer hardware, with Mac mini targeting mid-sized models and Mac Studio targeting several-hundred-billion-parameter models.
MotherDuck acquired Tower, the startup that was already supplying the execution and runtime layer behind MotherDuck’s AI-built data pipelines. The deal was announced on Tuesday and marks MotherDuck’s first acquisition in 4 years. Tower’s Python pipeline runtime will be folded into MotherDuck, enabling features like Flights and migration paths for Tower customers.
Apple launched new Mac Studio models using the existing M5 Max and a new M5 Ultra chip inside the same small chassis as earlier generations. The updated M5 Max Mac Studio includes 36GB of unified memory. As a result, the Mac Studio line is brought back under a single chip generation after a prior split between different Studio chip families.
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