Uplift Microhome is building reusable, modular housing units to provide housing on demand to people affected by natural disasters and other emergencies. Each of the company's homes has its own batteries and water reservoir, allowing them to quickly be transported and placed off-grid. 'Every year, millions of Americans are displaced by natural disasters,' said co-founder Charlie Nitschelm, who is in MIT's Leaders for Global Operations program, earning a master's in engineering and an MBA. 'If they're lucky, they can stay with friends or family. If they're not so lucky, they could end up in a homeless shelter. But disasters aren't just two-week problems. It takes months, sometimes years, to get back to what life was like before. Bottom line: We lack dignified and affordable housing after disasters.' Uplift Microhome was one of seven teams chosen to pitch at the final event, which took place inside a packed Kresge Auditorium. Each team got five minutes to pitch their startups before a few minutes of questioning from judges....

An outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has almost certainly been spreading undetected for weeks or even months, say infectious-disease researchers. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 17 May. At least 10 people have tested positive for Ebola virus, but more than 330 people have suspected infections, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So far, more than 80 people are thought to have died from the disease. Infections have also been reported in neighbouring Uganda, after two people with confirmed infections entered the country from the DRC. Both countries declared outbreaks last week, according to a statement from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Addis Ababa. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO, said infections have been reported among people with no connection to each other. At least four health-care workers in the same hospital have died, suggesting that the virus might be spreading in clinical settings. The true number of cases is potentially much larger than what has been reported, and it is unclear how people with confirmed or suspected infections have been exposed to the virus, Tedros said in a statement....

The study was published this week in Science and comes from a research team led by physicians and computer scientists at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The researchers said they conducted a variety of experiments to measure how OpenAI's models compared to human physicians. In one experiment, researchers focused on 76 patients who came into the Beth Israel emergency room, comparing the diagnoses offered by two internal medicine attending physicians to those generated by OpenAI's o1 and 4o models. These diagnoses were assessed by two other attending physicians, who did not know which ones came from humans and which came from AI. 'At each diagnostic touchpoint, o1 either performed nominally better than or on par with the two attending physicians and 4o,' the study said, adding that the differences 'were especially pronounced at the first diagnostic touchpoint (initial ER triage), where there is the least information available about the patient and the most urgency to make the correct decision.'...

Good morning & happy Tuesday! Today's issue is super exciting because we're diving into how one unreleased AI model has triggered a global financial emergency (why Claude Mythos prompted the US Treasury, the Fed, the Bank of Canada, and UK financial regulators to hold emergency meetings with their largest banks, where the biggest risks are & what's next + bonus deep dive into Anthropic's leaked Claude source code & how I turned Claude Code into my 10X engineer), and AI Agents that now started opening bank accounts (how banking FinTech Meow turned its entire banking stack into a promptable tool for Claude, ChatGPT & Gemini, why it's interesting & what it tells us about the future + bonus deep dives into AI moves & strategies from Visa, Ramp, Stripe, and a full guide on how to build your first AI Agent from scracth inside). So let's just jump straight into the interesting stuff '' On April 8, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell pulled the CEOs of Citi C 0.00%', Goldman GS 0.00%', Morgan Stanley MS 0.00%', Bank of America BAC 0.00%', and Wells Fargo WFC 0.00%' into a closed-door session at Treasury headquarters. By Friday, the Bank of Canada had assembled its own banks and regulators. The Bank of England, the FCA, and HM Treasury are now coordinating with the National Cyber Security Centre, with a meeting of leading British banks, insurers, and exchanges expected within two weeks....