Brittany Trang, Ph.D., covers AI in health and medicine: Does it actually work? Who benefits, or might be harmed? She writes the weekly AI Prognosis newsletter. Follow her on Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky. You can reach Brittany on Signal at btrang.01.

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Thanks for your suggestions for my apple-themed playlist last week. The apple-tasting party was very fun and informative. As I told a friend later, “We had 18 different types of apples, and while nothing really won, Cortland definitely lost.” (Someone summarized its texture as, “It wants to be applesauce.”)

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