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May 06, 2026 l Issue #334

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BigRio is proud to announce that our Managing Partner,  Ritu M. Uberoy  has been selected as a speaker for the Women in Tech Global Conference 2026, hosted by WomenTech Network. The virtual event will take place May 12-15, 2026, bringing together more than 10,000 participants and over 650 speakers from 179 countries. 

  

Ritu will present on Designing, Deploying, and Scaling Voice Agents in the Healthcare Ecosystem, on May 13, 2026, Wednesday at 10:30 am EDT/New York.

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🔍 Top Insights

  1. Microsoft Gives Up Exclusive Rights to Sell OpenAI Models 
  2. Google to Invest Up to $40 Billion in Anthropic, Agrees to Five Gigawatt Compute Deal 
  3. AI falls short on differential diagnosis, despite high accuracy rates 

The Big Unlock Podcast 

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Dr. Lee explores why change management, not the technology itself, is the hardest part of AI adoption, and why clinician involvement from day one is non-negotiable.

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Dr. Schoenberg reflects on the evolution of telehealth and shares a bold vision for AI’s role in reshaping care delivery.

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MyEyesAI  Selected for C10 Labs NYC Core Program 

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As part of this cohort, MyEyesAI will participate in the 8-Week Core Program culminating in the C10 Labs NYC Demo Day, where leading AI startups showcase their innovations to investors, healthcare leaders, and the broader applied AI ecosystem. Learn More 

Funding and M&A Moves

  • Aidoc banks $150M backed by Goldman Sachs to scale clinical AI foundation model
  • IKS Health to acquire TruBridge in $557M deal

🤖 AI in Action

Enabling a new model for healthcare with AI co-clinician

 

Google DeepMind introduced AI Co-Scientist, an advanced AI system designed to support clinicians by collaborating in complex medical decision-making rather than replacing human expertise. The system integrates multimodal medical data—including patient history, imaging, and clinical literature—to generate evidence-based diagnostic and treatment suggestions. Built on large language models and reinforcement learning techniques, it aims to reduce clinician cognitive burden, improve care consistency, and accelerate clinical reasoning.

 

Early evaluations show strong performance in medical reasoning benchmarks and complex case analysis. DeepMind emphasizes that the technology functions as a collaborative assistant, maintaining clinician oversight while enhancing accuracy, efficiency, and trust in AI-enabled healthcare delivery.

    📊 Industry Spotlight

    1. How to Move from AI Experimentation to AI Transformation 
    2. Physician burnout is improving but some specialties lag, the AMA finds

    🧠 Thought Leadership

    • What is the one common task that AI still cannot do? 

    I was surprised to know that AI cannot read analog clocks reliably! Fun Weekend reading. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) report. 425 pages. I highly recommend reading the chapter summaries if you don’t have time to read the whole report. Learn more

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    • Who else found this absolutely fascinating?

    Anthropic’s paper says that LLM’s have upto 171 disctinct emotions and their responses sometimes depend on what they are “feeling”. Learn more

        • Why AI Won’t “Replace Doctors” But Will Redesign How Care Is Accessed and Paid For
        • From Guidelines to Outcomes: What Autonomous AI Can Deliver in Healthcare Today
        • From Pilot to Production: How Healthcare & Pharma Are Scaling AI Voice Agents for Real Impact

        💬 From the Frontlines

        “To do transformation at scale, it goes well beyond just technology. Having strategy, innovation, and IT working together gives us the right ingredients to truly drive transformational change. ”

         

        —  Michael Hasselberg, PhD, RN, Chief Transformation and Digital Officer, Nebraska Medicine (The Big Unlock Podcast Episode #201) 

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          • HITLAB Innovators Summit 2026 I May 5-7, 2026 I NYC
          • Women in Tech Global Conference I May 12-15, 2026 I Virtual 

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