Few phrases are as iconic to fans of Lady Gaga than being instructed to “put your paws up” — and Drag Race alum Bob the Drag Queen decided to figure out exactly how often Mother Monster still says it.
In a video posted to his TikTok on Wednesday (Aug. 6), Bob shared a clip of himself preparing to attend the Mayhem Ball in Los Angeles, in which he revealed his plan to track the number of times Gaga instructs her fans to put their hands in the air.
“I’m headed to the Mayhem Ball, and I have this little counter,” Bob said, holding up a handheld tally counter to the camera. “I’m gonna count how many times Lady Gaga requests that we put our hands up. I’m counting ‘put your hands up,’ ‘put your paws up,’ ‘get them up,’ ‘hands up,’ anytime it is clear to me that she is wanting us to put our hands in the air.”
Throughout the rest of the clip, Bob interviews a series of his friends before the show to get their predictions for how often Gaga will ask the crowd to raise their hands. TikTok personality and singer Brittany Broski guessed that Mother Monster would ask 15 times, while Bob’s partner, Jacob Ritts, said she’d make the request 131 times. “I was gonna say 45 [times],” Bob offered.
After a series of clips from the show, wherein Gaga performed songs including “LoveDrug,” “Poker Face” and “Paparazzi,” Bob appeared back on camera to reveal that the singer asked her fans to put their hands in the air a whopping 88 times. “I did include the four times that she sang it in the song ‘Applause,’ to be fair,” Bob said with a laugh. “Make sure your arms are rested before you go see Mayhem.”
Fans looking to throw their hands up at one of Gaga’s forthcoming shows still have plenty of opportunities to do so. Mother Monster is performing two Mayhem Ball shows in Seattle on Thursday (Aug. 7) and Saturday (Aug. 9), before heading to New York City for a six-date mini-residency at Madison Square Garden starting on Aug. 22. The tour will reach Miami, Toronto and Chicago in the coming months before Gaga heads overseas for the European leg of her tour.
Check out Bob the Drag Queen’s Mayhem Ball TikTok below:
PESHAWAR: Newly elected Senator Mashal Yousafzai has announced her decision to move the Peshawar High Court (PHC) against the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for failing to issue her official notification, despite the passage of seven days since the Senate election.
Mashal Yousafzai, who won the Senate by-election for the seat vacated by Dr. Sania Nishtar on July 31, has yet to receive her notification, unlike other newly elected senators from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This delay has resulted in her inability to take the oath of office.
Speaking to Dunya News, Senator Yousafzai expressed her frustration, stating: “It’s been seven days, and I still haven’t received my notification. This delay has prevented me from taking my oath.”
While she remains hopeful that the notification will be issued soon, Yousafzai is uncertain why the ECP has not confirmed her appointment yet.
In response, Sohail Khan, spokesperson for the Election Commission in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, acknowledged that all required documents for Mashal Yousafzai have been submitted to the ECP in Islamabad and that the notification should have been issued by now. He assured that the notification would likely be released within the next day or two.
However, Mashal Yousafzai has made it clear that if the delay persists, she will take legal action to ensure her constitutional rights are upheld.
Cricketer Haider Ali was provisionally suspended by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday due to his involvement in an investigation being carried out by police in the UK, according to a statement.
The PCB announced last month that Saud Shakeel would lead an 18-member Pakistan Shaheens squad to tour England from July 17 to August 6 for two three-day and three 50-over matches. Ali was a part of the squad.
According to the statement, the PCB was informed about the investigation by the Greater Manchester Police regarding an incident that reportedly took place during the tour.
The nature of the incident was not immediately clear, nor were any details provided in the statement itself.
“In line with its duty of care and responsibility to ensure the welfare and legal rights of all its players, the PCB has ensured that Haider Ali has received appropriate legal support to protect his rights throughout this process,” the PCB stated.
The statement added that the cricket board acknowledged British legal processes and the importance of allowing an investigation to run its course.
“Accordingly, the PCB has decided to place Haider Ali under provisional suspension, effective immediately, pending the outcome of the ongoing investigation,” the statement read.
“Once the legal proceedings are concluded and all facts have been duly established, the PCB reserves the right to take appropriate action under its Code of Conduct, if necessary.”
The statement added that the PCB would not issue any further comment on the matter until it reaches its “legal conclusion”.
Archaeologists have uncovered primitive sharp-edged stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, adding another piece to an evolutionary puzzle involving mysterious ancient humans who lived in a region known as Wallacea.
Located beyond mainland Southeast Asia, Wallacea includes a group of islands between Asia and Australia, among which Sulawesi is the largest. Previously, researchers have found evidence that an unusual, small-bodied human species dubbed Homo floresiensis — also called “hobbits” due to comparisons with the diminutive characters in fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien’s books — lived on the nearby island of Flores from 700,000 years ago until about 50,000 years ago.
The newly discovered flaked stone tools, which date back between 1.04 million to 1.48 million years ago, represent the oldest evidence for human habitation of Sulawesi and suggest the island might have been inhabited by early human ancestors, or hominins, at the same time — or possibly earlier — than Flores. Researchers reported the findings in a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Researchers are still trying to answer key questions about these Wallacea island hominins — namely when and how they arrived on the islands, which would have required an ocean crossing.
Flaked stone tools were earlier uncovered on Flores and dated to about 1.02 million years ago. The latest find suggests there might have been a link between the populations on Flores and Sulawesi — and that perhaps Sulawesi was a stepping stone for the hobbits on Flores, according to the authors of the new research, who have studied sites on Flores.
“We have long suspected that the Homo floresiensis lineage of Flores, which probably represents a dwarfed variant of early Asian Homo erectus, came originally from Sulawesi to the north, so the discovery of this very old stone technology on Sulawesi adds further weight to this possibility,” said co-lead study author Dr. Adam Brumm, professor of archaeology at Griffith University’s Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution.
Excavations conducted by co-lead study author Budianto Hakim, senior archaeologist at the National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia, began on Sulawesi in 2019 after a stone artifact was spotted protruding from a sandstone outcrop in an area known as the Calio site in a modern cornfield.
The site — in the vicinity of a river channel — would have been where hominins made their tools and hunted 1 million years ago, according to the archaeologists, who also found animal fossils in the area. Among the finds was a jawbone of the now-extinct Celebochoerus, a type of pig with unusually large upper tusks.
At the conclusion of excavations in 2022, the team uncovered seven stone tools. Dating of the sandstone and fossils resulted in an age estimate for the tools of at least 1.04 million years old to potentially 1.48 million years old. Hominin-related artifacts previously found on Sulawesi had been dated to 194,000 years ago.
The small, sharp stone fragments used as tools were likely fashioned from larger pebbles in nearby riverbeds, and they were probably used for cutting or scraping, Brumm said. The tools are similar to early human stone technology discoveries made before on Sulawesi and other Indonesian islands as well as early hominin sites in Africa, he added.
“They reflect a so-called ‘least-effort’ approach to reducing stones into useful, sharp-edged tools; these are uncomplicated implements, but it requires a certain level of skill and experience to make these tools — they result from precise and controlled flaking of stone, not randomly bashing rocks together,” Brumm said.
But who was responsible for making these tools in the first place?
“It’s a significant piece of the puzzle, but the Calio site has yet to yield any hominin fossils,” Brumm said. “So while we now know there were tool-makers on Sulawesi a million years ago, their identity remains a mystery.”
The fossil record on Sulawesi is sparse, and ancient DNA degrades more rapidly in the region’s tropical climate. Brumm and his colleagues retrieved DNA a few years back from the bones of a female teenage hunter-gatherer who died more than 7,000 years ago on Sulawesi, revealing evidence of a previously unknown group of humans, but such finds are incredibly rare.
Another roadblock to unraveling the enigma has been the lack of systematic and sustained field research in a region of hundreds of separate islands, some of which archaeologists have never properly investigated, Brumm said.
The researchers do have a theory about the identity of this unidentified ancient hominin, who might represent the earliest evidence of ancient humans crossing oceans to reach islands.
“Our working hypothesis is that the stone tools from Calio were made by Homo erectus or an isolated group of this early Asian hominin (e.g., a creature akin to Homo floresiensis of Flores),” Brumm wrote in an email.
In addition to fossils and stone tools on Flores and the tools now found on Sulawesi, researchers have also previously discovered stone tools dating to around 709,000 years ago on the isolated island of Luzon in the Philippines, to the north of Wallacea, suggesting ancient humans were living on multiple islands.
Exactly how our early ancestors could have reached the islands to begin with remains unknown.
“Getting to Sulawesi from the adjacent Asian mainland would not have been easy for a non-flying land mammal like us, but it’s clear that early hominins were doing it somehow,” Brumm wrote.
“Almost certainly they lacked the cognitive capacity to invent boats that could be used for planned ocean voyages. Most probably they made overwater dispersals completely by accident, in the same way rodents and monkeys are suspected to have done it, by ‘rafting’ (i.e., floating haplessly) on natural vegetation mats.”
John Shea, a professor in the anthropology department at Stony Brook University in New York, said he believes that the new study, while not a game changer, is important and has far-reaching implications for understanding how humans established a global presence. Shea was not involved in the new research.
Homo sapiens, or modern humans, are the only species for which there is clear, unequivocal evidence of watercraft use, and if Homo erectus or earlier hominins crossed the ocean to the Wallacean islands, they would have needed something to travel on, Shea said.
The waters separating the Wallacean islands are home to sharks and crocodiles and have rapid currents, so swimming wouldn’t have been possible, he added.
“If you have ever paddled a canoe or crewed in a sailboat, then you know that putting more than one person in a boat and navigating it successfully requires spoken language, a capacity paleoanthropologists think pre-Homo sapiens hominins did not possess,” Shea said. “On the other hand, just because some earlier hominins made it to these Wallacean islands does not mean they were successful.”
By success, Shea means long-term survival.
“They might have survived a while after arriving, left behind indestructible stone tools, and then became extinct,” Shea said via email. “After all, the only hominin that is not extinct is us.”
Brumm and his colleagues are continuing their investigative work at Calio and other sites across Sulawesi to search for fossils of early humans.
There is also a growing body of evidence to suggest that tiny Homo floresiensis was the result of a dramatic reduction in body size over the course of around 300,000 years after Homo erectus became isolated on Flores about 1 million years ago. Animals can scale down in size when living on remote islands due to limited resources, according to previous research.
Finding fossils might help researchers understand the evolutionary fate of Homo erectus, if it is the human ancestor who made it to Sulawesi. The world’s 11th-largest island and an area more than 12 times the size of Flores, Sulawesi is known for its rich, varied ecological habitats, Brumm said.
“Sulawesi is a bit of a wild card. It is essentially like a mini-continent in of itself,” Brumm noted. “If Homo erectusbecame isolated on this island it might not necessarily have evolved into something like the strange new form found on the much smaller Wallacean island of Flores to the south.”
Alternatively, Sulawesi could have once been a series of smaller islands, resulting in dwarfism in multiple places across the region, he said.
“I really hope hominin fossils are eventually found on Sulawesi,” Brumm said, “because I think there’s a truly fascinating story waiting to be told on that island.”
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JEDDAH (Saudi Arabia) – New Zealand survived a 37-point explosion from Justin Brownlee to outlast the Philippines 94-86 and improve to 2-0 in Group D at the FIBA Asia Cup 2025 on Thursday at King Abdullah Sports City.
Jordan Ngatai led the Tall Blacks with 22 points on a perfect 5-of-5 clip from beyond the arc, while Taylor Britt added 19 points and 7 assists, including critical baskets down the stretch that sealed the hard-fought win.
The Philippines dropped to 0-2 despite Brownlee’s heroic performance, which included 7 triples and a barrage of second-half buckets that brought Gilas to the brink of a comeback. Dwight Ramos also stepped up in the second half, while Scottie Thompson provided energy on both ends, but New Zealand’s poise and depth ultimately made the difference.
It was a fiery start to the game as both teams traded early blows. Brownlee and June Mar Fajardo opened the scoring, but the Tall Blacks quickly found their groove behind Ngatai’s hot shooting and Flynn Cameron’s penetration. A late surge gave New Zealand a 23-14 lead before Carl Tamayo and Chris Newsome trimmed the gap to 23-18 by the end of the opening quarter.
The pace quickened in the second as the Philippines fed off crowd energy, with Kevin Quiambao drilling a triple to pull within two. But Ngatai remained unstoppable, hitting his fourth three-pointer to push the lead to 9. Brownlee battled hard to keep Gilas in it with a combination of triples and strong finishes, but New Zealand’s transition game, fueled by Britt and Mojave King, repeatedly punished Philippine turnovers.
The Tall Blacks hit 9 triples in the first half and carried a 55-41 lead into the break, with Ngatai and Brownlee tied at 19 points apiece.
The third period was Gilas’ best, as they mounted a spirited rally. Brownlee and Ramos attacked relentlessly, bringing the deficit down to four late in the period. Tohi Smith-Milner momentarily silenced the run with a clutch three, but the Philippines refused to go away. Britt closed the quarter with a buzzer-beating layup to give New Zealand a 74-68 cushion heading into the fourth.
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Max Darling extended the lead with a corner triple to start the final frame, but the Philippines responded with another Brownlee-Ramos flurry to eventually close within three, 85-82. Ngatai answered with his fifth triple, and Britt took over from there. He sliced through the defense for back-to-back layups that restored control for the Tall Blacks.
New Zealand’s defense locked in during the final two minutes, forcing key misses and converting from the line. King iced the game with two free throws, while Ramos added a late drive that proved too little, too late.
The Tall Blacks (2-0) will next face fellow unbeaten Chinese Taipei, while the Philippines (0-2) must win against Iraq to keep their Quarter-Finals hopes alive.
Rapper’s candid comments about sizing spark conversation ahead of sophomore album debut
The Bronx-born rapper has never shied away from controversial statements, but her latest Instagram Live session left fans both laughing and reflecting. As anticipation builds for her September album release, Cardi B found herself addressing an unexpected merchandising challenge that revealed more about her fanbase than anyone anticipated.
Cardi Underestimates Fan Demographics
The Grammy-winning artist discovered a surprising truth about her audience when limited-edition merchandise for Am I The Drama? sold out within minutes. The exclusive WWE collaboration boxes, featuring custom T-shirts, signed artwork and advance copies of her sophomore effort, disappeared from virtual shelves faster than expected — particularly in extended sizes.
Social media erupted on Aug. 1 when fans documented the rapid sellout of 3XL merchandise across platforms. The Bardi Gang, as her devoted followers call themselves, demonstrated purchasing power that caught even the savvy businesswoman off guard. Within 20 minutes, the largest shirt sizes had vanished completely.
Wrestling Partnership Creates Buzz
The collaboration with World Wrestling Entertainment represents an unconventional marketing approach for the hip-hop star. The partnership coincided with heightened speculation about a potential SummerSlam appearance, though official confirmation remains elusive. Industry insiders suggest the crossover appeal between wrestling and rap audiences creates untapped promotional opportunities.
Each limited box set includes premium packaging, exclusive artwork and autographed materials — elements designed to appeal to serious collectors. The merchandise strategy reflects broader trends in music marketing, where physical products command premium prices among dedicated fanbases.
Raw Commentary Sparks Discussion
During her livestream response, the artist delivered characteristically unfiltered observations about the sizing situation. Her remarks, while provocative, highlighted ongoing conversations about body positivity within entertainment culture. The rapper acknowledged her own experiences with public scrutiny, creating what she termed a reciprocal dynamic with her audience.
The comments generated immediate social media discourse, with supporters praising her authenticity while critics questioned the appropriateness of public body commentary. Cultural commentators noted the complex relationship between celebrity vulnerability and fan engagement in digital spaces.
Cardi Addresses Body Image Complexities
The performer’s willingness to discuss physical appearance — both her own and her fans’ — reflects broader industry conversations about authenticity versus responsibility. Her references to cosmetic procedures and public criticism demonstrate how modern celebrities navigate personal disclosure in increasingly intimate fan relationships.
Entertainment analysts suggest her approach represents evolving artist-audience dynamics, where traditional boundaries between performer and fan continue dissolving. The strategy, while risky, reinforces her reputation for genuine interaction with supporters.
September Album Launch Approaches
Am I The Drama? arrives Sept. 19 as the follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut Invasion of Privacy. The album title itself suggests confrontational themes, aligning with her recent public statements. Music industry observers anticipate the record will address personal growth, industry challenges and her evolution as both artist and businesswoman.
Early promotional materials hint at collaborations with major producers and guest appearances from established hip-hop figures. The wrestler partnership represents just one element of what appears to be an ambitious marketing campaign designed to maximize commercial and cultural impact.
ComplexCon Appearance Confirmed
Beyond album promotion, the rapper will participate in ComplexCon’s Las Vegas return Oct. 25-26, 2025. The festival, featuring over 300 brands alongside performances from Young Thug, YEAT, Peso Pluma, Central Cee and Ken Carson, represents a significant cultural convergence point.
The event historically attracts fashion-conscious consumers and music enthusiasts, providing ideal audience alignment for artists promoting new material. Her participation suggests strategic positioning within streetwear and lifestyle marketing ecosystems.
Fan Loyalty Drives Success
Despite controversial moments, the Bardi Gang continues demonstrating unwavering support through merchandise purchases and social media engagement. Their rapid response to limited releases illustrates the financial power of dedicated fanbases in modern music commerce.
The sizing revelation, while initially awkward, ultimately highlighted the diverse demographics within her audience. Marketing experts note that understanding fan characteristics — including physical attributes — enables more effective product development and inventory management.
As September approaches, industry watchers anticipate whether Am I The Drama? will match her debut’s commercial success while maintaining the authentic connection that defines her relationship with supporters. Her willingness to address uncomfortable topics may prove either brilliant marketing or potential liability, depending on execution and public reception.
OpenAI on Thursday released the fifth generation of the artificial intelligence technology that powers ChatGPT, a product update that’s being closely watched as a measure of whether generative AI is advancing rapidly or hitting a plateau.
GPT-5 arrives more than two years after the March 2023 release of GPT-4, bookending a period of intense commercial investment, hype and worry over AI’s capabilities.
In anticipation, rival Anthropic released the latest version of its own chatbot, Claude, earlier in the week, part of a race with Google and other competitors in the U.S. and China to leapfrog each other on AI benchmarks. Meanwhile, longtime OpenAI partner Microsoft said it will incorporate GPT-5 into its own AI assistant, Copilot.
Expectations are high for the newest version of OpenAI’s flagship model because the San Francisco company has long positioned its technical advancements as a path toward artificial general intelligence, or AGI, a technology that is supposed to surpass humans at economically valuable work.
It is also trying to raise huge amounts of money to get there, in part to pay for the costly computer chips and data centers needed to build and run the technology.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described the new model as a “significant step along our path to AGI” but mostly focused on its usability to the 700 million people he says use ChatGPT each week.
“It’s like talking to an expert — a legitimate PhD-level expert in anything, any area you need, on demand,” Altman said at a launch event livestreamed Thursday.
It may take some time to see how people use the new model — now available, with usage limits, to anyone with a free ChatGPT account. The Thursday event focused heavily on ChatGPT’s use in coding, an area where Anthropic is seen as a leader, and featured a guest appearance by the CEO of coding software maker Cursor, an important Anthropic customer.
OpenAI’s presenters also spent time talking about safety improvements to make the chatbot “less deceptive” and stop it from producing harmful responses to “cleverly worded” prompts that could bypass its guardrails. The Associated Press reported Wednesday on a study that showed ChatGPT was providing dangerous information about drugs and self-harm to researchers posing as teenagers.
At a technical level, GPT-5 shows “modest but significant improvements” on the latest benchmarks, but when compared to GPT-4, it also looks very different and resets OpenAI’s flagship technology in a way that could set the stage for future innovations, said John Thickstun, an assistant professor of computer science at Cornell University.
“I’m not a believer that it’s the end of work and that AI is just going to solve all humanity’s problems for it, but I do think there’s still a lot of headroom for them, and other people in this space, to continue to improve the technology,” he said. “Not just capitalizing on the gains that have already been made.”
OpenAI started in 2015 as a nonprofit research laboratory to safely build AGI and has since incorporated a for-profit company with a valuation that has grown to $300 billion. The company has tried to change its structure since the nonprofit board ousted Altman in November 2023. He was reinstated days later.
It has not yet reported making a profit but has run into hurdles escaping its nonprofit roots, including scrutiny from the attorneys general in California and Delaware, who have oversight of nonprofits, and a lawsuit by Elon Musk, an early donor to and founder of OpenAI who now runs his own AI company.
Most recently, OpenAI has said it will turn its for-profit company into a public benefit corporation, which must balance the interests of shareholders and its mission.
OpenAI is the world’s third most valuable private company and a bellwether for the AI industry, with an “increasingly fragile moat” at the frontier of AI, according to banking giant JPMorgan Chase, which recently made a rare decision to cover the company despite it not being publicly traded.
The inability of a single AI developer to have a “sustained competitive edge” could increasingly force companies to compete on lowering the prices of their AI products, the bank said in a report last month.
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Chest X-rays are the most common type of X-ray used in medicine — used to diagnose lung problems, heart issues, broken ribs and even certain gut conditions.
But sometimes they can be hard to interpret, or doctors may miss diagnosing rare conditions and emerging diseases, as was seen in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A new AI tool called Ark+ has the potential to help.
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A team of Arizona State University researchers built the tool to help doctors read chest X‑rays more accurately and improve health care outcomes.
In a proof-of-concept study, Ark+ demonstrated exceptional capability in diagnosis — from common lung diseases to rare and emerging ones.
It also was more accurate and outperformed proprietary software currently released by industry titans like Google and Microsoft.
“Our goal was to build a tool that not only performed well in our study but also can help democratize the technology to get it into the hands of potentially everyone,” said Jianming “Jimmy” Liang, an ASU professor from the College of Health Solutions and lead author of the study recently published in the prestigious journal Nature.
“Ark+ is designed to be an open, reliable and ultimately useful tool in real-world health care systems,” he said. “Ultimately, we want AI to help doctors save lives.”
Though health care is now the leading driver of the U.S. economy, the U.S. continues to rank lower than many countries in many health indicators, including 49th in life expectancy, according to the World Bank.
Patients want to live healthier lives and have better outcomes. And doctors want to make sure to get the diagnosis right the first time for better patient care.
That’s when AI enters the waiting room.
What makes Ark+ different
The Ark+ tool improves the process by using AI to reduce mistakes and speed up diagnosis.
AI works by training computer software on large datasets, or in the case of the Ark+ model, a total of more than 700,000 worldwide images from several publicly available X-ray datasets.
The key difference-maker for Ark+ was adding value and expertise from the human art of medicine. Liang’s team included all the detailed doctors’ notes compiled for every image.
“You learn more knowledge from experts,” Liang said.
These expert physician notes were critical for Ark+ to learn and become more and more accurate as it was trained on each dataset.
“Ark+ is accruing and reusing knowledge,” said Liang, explaining how the tool got its acronym. “That’s how we train it. And pretty much, we were thinking of a new way to train AI models with numerous datasets via fully supervised learning.
“Because before this, if you wanted to train a large model using multiple datasets, people usually used self-supervised learning, or you train it on the disease model — the abnormal versus a normal X-ray.
“And so, that means you throw out the most valuable information from the datasets, these expert labels,” he said. “We wanted AI to learn from expert knowledge, not only from the raw data.”
Other key highlights from the pilot project include:
Foundation model for X‑rays: Ark+ is trained on many different chest X‑ray datasets from hospitals and institutions around the world. This makes it better at detecting a wide range of lung issues.
Open and sharable: The team has released the code and pretrained models. This means other researchers can improve it or adjust it for local clinics.
Quick learning: Ark+ can identify rare diseases even when only a few examples are available.
Adapts to new tasks: Ark+ can also be fine‑tuned to spot new or unseen lung problems without needing full retraining.
Resilient and fair: Ark+ works well, even with uneven data, and fights against biases. It can also be used in private, secure ways.
Putting AI into the hands of doctors
The software can be adapted for any kind of medical imaging diagnosis, including CTs and MRIs, thereby expanding its impact in the future.
Liang and his research team want Ark+ to become a foundation for future AI tools in medicine and hope to further commercialize the software for hospitals so that other researchers will use and build on their work.
By sharing everything openly, they want to help doctors in all countries, even rural places without big data resources.
Their goal is to make medical AI safer, smarter and more helpful for everyone.
“By making this model fully open, we’re inviting others to join us in making medical AI more fair, accurate and accessible,” Liang said. “We believe this will help save lives.”
Olympians Farida Abaroge, Perina Lokure Nakang, and Musa Suliman headline the six-member Athlete Refugee Team (ART) set to compete at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25, representing millions of displaced people around the world.
The team is supported by the Refugee Athlete Scholarship programme, a partnership between the Olympic Refugee Foundation, World Athletics, and national federations, which provides athletes with a pathway to purpose through sport.
Abaroge, who fled her country in 2016 and now lives in France, will contest the 5000m. Nakang, based in Kenya, overcame significant personal and health challenges to return to training for the 800m, while Suliman, the youngest of the trio at 21, makes his Worlds debut after representing the Refugee Olympic Team in Paris.
They will be joined by marathoners Omar Hassan and Emmanuel Kiruhura Ntagunga, and 5000m runner Jamal Abdelmaji Eisa Mohammed, who returns to the global stage after missing Budapest 2023.
The 2025 World Athletics Championships will take place in Tokyo from 13-21 September.
