JD Digest — Friday, July 10, 2026

TECHNICALCALENDAR

Ferrari becomes first F1 team to run at Madrid's new Madring circuit

Ferrari became the first Formula 1 team to run at Madrid's new Madring circuit on Thursday, completing a filming day ahead of its debut on the 2026 calendar. Charles Leclerc drove in the morning session and Lewis Hamilton took over in the afternoon, with regulations permitting up to 200km of combined running in the SF-26. The Madring winds around the IFEMA Exhibition Centre and joins the calendar on a 10-year deal, replacing Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya as host of the Spanish Grand Prix with this year's race scheduled for September 13. Ferrari's rivals voiced concerns about the competitive advantage gained from the exclusive early access to circuit data.

TECHNICAL

McLaren redirects MCL40 development as Norris labels car 'undriveable'

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella confirmed the team has changed direction with its MCL40 development programme following a difficult British Grand Prix. Lando Norris finished fourth and Oscar Piastri failed to score at Silverstone, with Norris describing the car as 'undriveable' at certain circuit characteristics. Stella said McLaren has been redirecting its aerodynamic approach, though revised concepts take roughly two months to translate to the track. CEO Zak Brown confirmed McLaren is not yet running Mercedes' latest power unit specification, with that upgrade expected for Belgium. Stella said the team's best chance to close the gap to frontrunners Mercedes and Ferrari would arrive around the summer shutdown.

GRID NEWS

Lawson and Racing Bulls dismiss seat speculation as Tsolov's F2 form intensifies

Liam Lawson and Racing Bulls boss Alan Permane dismissed speculation about the New Zealander's 2027 seat on Friday, as pressure builds from Red Bull junior Nikola Tsolov's Formula 2 season. Tsolov has won six of 14 F2 races to lead the championship, fuelling rumours of a potential promotion. Permane said the speculation is not something the team has even discussed and described Lawson as amazing this year, noting he has done exactly everything asked of him. Lawson has scored points at almost every race in 2026 and made regular Q3 appearances, helping Racing Bulls cement fifth place in the constructors' standings.

CHAMPIONSHIP

Russell concedes 25-point deficit to Antonelli is fair, denies Mercedes favouritism

George Russell dismissed claims of preferential treatment within Mercedes following the British Grand Prix, insisting the team's 2,000 employees all share a bonus tied to the constructors' championship. Speaking after finishing second at Silverstone, Russell acknowledged that teammate Kimi Antonelli has done a better job than him this season and described the current 25-point gap between them as a correct reflection of the campaign. Antonelli had built a 68-point advantage after winning five consecutive races from China to Monaco, but a wheel shield failure dropped him to 16th at Silverstone and allowed Russell to close the deficit substantially. The Mercedes driver said plainly: 'I need to be better.'

CALENDARREGULATION

F1 must decide before summer break whether to restore cancelled Bahrain Grand Prix

Formula 1 chief executive Stefano Domenicali has revealed the sport faces a pre-summer break deadline to determine whether a cancelled Middle East race can be restored to the 2026 calendar. The Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix were removed from the schedule earlier in the season due to ongoing regional conflict, reducing the calendar from 24 to 22 rounds. Domenicali said a decision on reinstating one race, believed to be Bahrain, must be made before the summer shutdown begins after the Hungarian Grand Prix on July 26. The proposed slot is October 2-4, between the Azerbaijan and Singapore Grands Prix, subject to safety and logistical conditions.

REGULATIONTECHNICAL

Red Bull contests FIA ADUO engine ranking in ongoing data exchange with governing body

Red Bull principal Laurent Mekies confirmed ongoing dialogue with the FIA over the controversial ADUO ruling that placed the team's power unit top of the field despite its poor 2026 results. The Additional Development and Upgrade Opportunities verdict denies Red Bull further engine development while rivals Mercedes and Ferrari receive additional upgrade tokens. Mekies said the parties are now exchanging data on methodologies and discrepancies, with a meeting planned outside race weekends. Red Bull has consistently disputed the ruling, with Mekies stating the team sees not one single data sample supporting the claim that its engine leads the competition over Mercedes.

TECHNICAL

Mercedes confirm technical issue hampered Russell's straight-line speed at Silverstone

Mercedes confirmed on Friday that George Russell suffered a technical issue affecting his straight-line speed throughout the British Grand Prix weekend. Russell had been publicly perplexed by a top speed deficit visible in speed trap data at Silverstone, which limited his competitiveness on the circuit's long straights. The admission came as Russell reflected on closing his championship gap to leader Kimi Antonelli to 25 points after his second-place finish. Russell had conceded the deficit to Antonelli is a fair reflection of his season and said he needs to perform better, rather than attributing shortcomings to any factor beyond his own performance.

ROBOTICS

Humanoid Robots Controlled by Surgeons Perform World-First Gallbladder Surgery on Live Pigs

Surgeons remotely piloting Unitree G1 humanoid robots performed gallbladder removal surgery on living pigs in a preclinical trial published Thursday in the journal Nature, marking the first time humanoid robots have completed a minimally invasive surgical procedure on live animals. The Unitree G1 — 5 feet tall and weighing 60 pounds — could make robotic-assisted surgical care accessible in smaller hospitals and rural clinics lacking the resources for traditional surgical robots, which cost up to several million dollars and weigh roughly 1,800 pounds. Researchers say the approach could eventually allow surgeons to perform complex procedures remotely across geographic distances.

REGULATION

How the Government Decided OpenAI’s Frontier Model Was Safe to Release

The 13-day government-coordinated preview for OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol — during which access was limited to approximately 20 vetted partner organizations while government agencies evaluated safety — concluded Thursday with a full public launch. The voluntary process gave the NSA and other agencies time to run classified capability benchmarks and assess whether Sol crossed any classified thresholds. OpenAI characterized the delay as an anomaly, with the company saying such restrictions “shouldn’t be the norm.” The review establishes a template that may inform how future frontier models — including Grok 5 and Gemini 3.5 Pro — are handled ahead of a formal governance framework expected August 1.

HARDWARE

Meta’s Custom MTIA AI Chips Cleared Testing in Six Weeks, Enter TSMC Production in September

Meta’s latest MTIA (Meta Training and Inference Accelerator) chip cleared its hardware testing phase in approximately six weeks and is slated to enter manufacturing at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company in September, targeting reduced GPU costs amid a global component shortage. Meta is working with Broadcom on chip design and sourcing RAM from Samsung, storage from SanDisk, and fiber-optic equipment from Sumitomo Electric. The four new MTIA chips, detailed publicly in March, will be used to train ranking and recommendation algorithms, support broader AI workloads, and handle inference for Meta’s consumer applications — part of the company’s broader push to reduce dependence on Nvidia GPUs.

INDUSTRY

Nvidia’s Stock Falls 15% From Peak as Memory Replaces GPUs as AI’s Hottest Trade

Nvidia’s stock has fallen roughly 15% from its May peak even as projected revenue continues to grow, leaving the company trading below the S&P average on a price-to-earnings basis — an unusual position for the firm that created the modern AI compute market. Investors are shifting capital into memory companies instead, with Micron nearly tripling in value as DRAM emerges as the new data-center bottleneck following a partial easing of the GPU shortage. The shift illustrates how Nvidia’s success in resolving the GPU scarcity of recent years has moved the market premium to the next constraint in the AI infrastructure stack.

SOFTWAREAI

Meta Enters AI Coding Market With Paid Muse Spark 1.1, Competing Against OpenAI and Anthropic

Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 Thursday through a new Model API, entering the paid AI coding market for the first time as the company competes directly with OpenAI Codex and Anthropic’s agentic coding tools. The launch marks Meta beginning to charge for AI model access — a shift from the company’s prior strategy of free or open-weight releases. The model claims strong agentic and coding performance, with independent benchmark evaluations still pending. The move positions Meta alongside OpenAI and Anthropic in the rapidly expanding market for AI developer tools, with all three releasing major coding-focused AI updates on the same day.

RESEARCH

Google Opens AlphaEvolve AI Algorithm-Discovery Agent to All Cloud Customers

Google made AlphaEvolve generally available to all Google Cloud customers on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Thursday, opening access to an AI system previously limited to private preview since December 2025. AlphaEvolve is a code optimization and algorithm discovery agent built on Gemini, designed to help solve complex computational problems. During its early access period it was tested across logistics, semiconductors, genomics, high-performance computing, and financial services. The tool uses large language models to iteratively propose and evaluate algorithmic solutions. The GA release arrives on the same day Google’s main frontier model competitors launched major AI updates.

Open Book Touch: A DRM-Free, WiFi-Connected Open-Source E-Reader

The Open Book project gets a touchscreen upgrade. The Open Book Touch packs an ESP32-S3 microcontroller, a 4.26-inch e-paper display at 480×800 with FT6336 capacitive touch, 16MB flash, 8MB PSRAM, a replaceable 800mAh LiPo, microSD slot, and warm/cool frontlight LEDs — all on open-source, MIT-licensed hardware. The Focus C++ UI framework handles EPUB and TXT files without DRM, subscriptions, or vendor lock-in. PCB files, schematics, and firmware are all public. Crowd Supply pre-orders open at $149, with delivery targeting April 2027. A genuine alternative to proprietary e-readers that you can actually modify and repair.

Get a Handle On This Compact Pi Portable

Named after a certain galaxy-spanning guidebook, this pocket-sized Pi build earns the reassurance. It pairs a Raspberry Pi 3A+ with Pimoroni’s HyperPixel 4.0 Square display, a Rii 518BT Bluetooth keyboard, an optional LX-2BUPS expansion board with 18650 cells for battery power, and a PAM8403 audio amp with a 3D-printable volume knob. The Creative Commons release includes a full BOM and step-by-step assembly guide. Running audio, Bluetooth, and display simultaneously from a portable that fits in a coat pocket, this is a genuinely polished cyberdeck build rather than a work in progress. Don’t Panic: the instructions are thorough.

Overpowered RC Car Gimbal Cam: The Greatest Chase Vehicle We’ve Ever Seen

[Transistor Man] mounted a professional Sony cinema camera onto a 1/5th-scale RC rally chassis — then added a 3-axis gimbal to keep shots smooth through the carnage. TPU 3D-printed mount components absorb chassis vibration before it reaches the gimbal, and HD FPV footage transmits over a decade-old surplus radio link. The result is cinema-quality chase footage at a fraction of professional crew costs: essentially a mini dolly, jib arm, and chase vehicle rolled into one very fast contraption. For action sports filmmaking or engineering spectacle on a tight budget, this is the build to study — and the footage is breathtaking.

Makerfabs MaUWB: ESP32-S3 UWB Module With PoE for Home Assistant RTLS

Ultra-wideband indoor positioning just got a ready-to-deploy Home Assistant module. The Makerfabs MaUWB combines an ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 with a Qorvo DW3000 UWB transceiver and STM32 coprocessor, plus a WIZnet W5500 PoE Ethernet chip for cableless power and network. A minimal four-device setup — one tag, two anchors, one main unit — achieves centimetre-accurate indoor positioning up to 500 metres range, with native ESPHome and Home Assistant integration. No cloud dependency, no BLE approximation guesswork. Ships in a protective enclosure for $59.80. One of the most accessible UWB real-time location systems available for home makers.

Die Casting Comes Home

Aluminium die casting — the industrial process behind everything from engine blocks to toy soldiers — has been scaled down to a garage bench by [Know Art]. A CNC-milled graphite die forms the mould (graphite machines cleanly and doesn’t bond with molten aluminium), while a modified hydraulic cylinder with trampoline springs provides the injection force. Parts eject from the die after each shot. Current challenges include flash at parting lines and some porosity — the same issues that haunt industrial operations at any scale. Process notes and lessons learned are shared openly. Possibly the most ambitious metalworking hack this year.

xTool O1 Omni UV Printer Now Available for Pre-Order

The desktop UV printing race heated up today as xTool opened pre-orders for the O1 Omni, first shown at CES 2026. Three editions cover different needs: Single UV ($1,699), Dual UV ($2,699, adds flexible/rigid/fluorescent ink channels), and UV+DTF ($2,799, adds direct-to-fabric printing). All use the Epson F1080 UV printhead. The decisive differentiator is ink cost: xTool’s CMYKW ink runs $19.99 per 125ml versus eufyMake’s $42.99 per 100ml — roughly 37% of the per-ml cost. A CIS scanner-based alignment system handles design registration. Pre-orders require a refundable $50 deposit; shipping begins early August.

BOX OFFICE

Minions & Monsters Posts Franchise-Worst $36M Opening as Supergirl Craters 77 Percent

Minions & Monstersopened to afranchise-worst $36 millionover its first three days and$61 millionover the full five-day July 4 frame from4,243 North American locations— below the original 2010Despicable Me’s $56 million unadjusted debut. The result extended a downward franchise trend and raises questions about Illumination’s animated brand strength.Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrowdropped77 percentin its second weekend, and Toy Story 5 continues its theatrical run with over $350 million cumulatively. The second weekend forMinions & Monstersis projected at $17–$22 million, with the film expected to rely heavily on international markets.

BOX OFFICE

Young Washington Opens to $19.3M and Sequel 1776 Greenlit by Angel Studios

Angel Studios’ faith-and-history dramaYoung Washingtonopened to$19.3 millionfrom 2,725 theaters over the July 4 holiday weekend, earning a$2,816 per-theater averageand marking the studio’s second-best theatrical debut in its history. Angel Studios immediately greenlit a sequel titled1776. The independent release outperformed studio expectations, drawing family audiences seeking patriotic content. The per-theater average ranked among the top performers of the July 4 frame, demonstrating the effectiveness of the studio’s targeted, faith-aligned audience campaigns. Angel Studios continues to challenge traditional studio distribution with values-driven marketing and community-based theatrical mobilization.

AWARDS

HBO Max Leads 2026 Emmy Nominations With 122 as Apple TV+ Posts Record 87

The 2026 Emmy nominations confirm streaming’s dominance:HBO Maxleads all platforms with122 nominations, followed by Netflix at 111 andApple TV+at 87 — the streamer’s strongest showing to date.The Pitt, HBO’s debut medical drama, earned 25 nominations in its first season, among the highest totals for any debut series in recent Emmy history. Broadcast networks continued their long decline as nominees, underscoring how viewers — and Emmy voters — have migrated to streaming. The breakdown will directly inform FYC campaign budget allocations as studios recalibrate strategy for the next awards cycle.

AWARDS

Mariska Hargitay to Host 2026 Emmy Awards September 14 on NBC, First Woman Host in 15 Years

Mariska Hargitaywill host the 2026 Primetime Emmy Awards, becoming the first woman to host the ceremony in15 years. The telecast is set forSeptember 14onNBC and Peacock. Hargitay, best known for her long-running role onLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit, brings broad audience recognition to a ceremony that has struggled with ratings in recent years. Her selection marks a milestone for gender representation at the Emmys’ flagship telecast, and NBC and the Television Academy are expected to lean on her cross-generational appeal — reaching both longtime procedural viewers and younger streaming audiences — in their broadcast marketing.

AWARDS

Hacks Sets All-Time Comedy Emmy Record With 24 Nominations as Widow’s Bay Surprises With 19

Hacksset an all-time Emmy record for comedy series with24 nominationsin its final season, positioningJean Smartfor hereighth individual Emmy nomination. The HBO Max series’ haul signals that voters were eager to honor the show ahead of its conclusion. Meanwhile,Widow’s Bayemerged as the nomination cycle’s biggest surprise, landing 19 nominations for Apple TV+, marking a significant FYC campaign win for the streamer. The combination of Hacks’ record haul and Widow’s Bay’s surge underscores Apple TV+’s aggressive awards strategy, which produced its largest Emmy nomination total in the platform’s history.

TRAILER

Paramount+ Drops Avatar: Aang Trailer Confirming July 25 Premiere With Eric Nam and Dave Bautista

Paramount+ dropped the official trailer forAvatar: Aang, its live-action series adaptation, confirming aJuly 25 premiere date. The series starsEric Namas Aang andDave Bautistain a key role. An earlier footage leak in April had already generated significant online attention, and the official trailer release reignited audience interest across social platforms. The trailer arrives ahead of a competitive summer streaming window as Paramount+ competes for subscriber attention. Marketing teams will be closely tracking engagement metrics and social volume as the platform builds its promotional campaign toward the premiere date.

OVALTECHNICAL

McLaughlin Leads Full-Field IndyCar Test at Milwaukee

Scott McLaughlin set the pace at IndyCar’s full-field test at Milwaukee Mile, posting a best lap of 22.669 seconds (161.189 mph) in his No. 3 Team Penske Chevrolet. “It was solid,” McLaughlin said. “Honestly, every test day for me and Raul [Prados] has been like, amazing.” Rinus VeeKay was second (22.798s) and Marcus Ericsson third (22.828s). Felix Rosenqvist, Will Power, and Marcus Armstrong rounded out the top six. Pato O’Ward recovered to ninth after a difficult start: “We were nowhere to begin, but hats off to my race engineer and all the guys; they turned it around.” Championship leader Alex Palou finished 10th.

BROADCAST

FOX Ratings Soar for Mid-Ohio Broadcast

IndyCar’s Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course broadcast on FOX drew 1,344,000 viewers on July 5, a 73 percent increase over the 775,000 who watched the same race in 2025. The broadcast peaked at 1,541,000 viewers. The strong Mid-Ohio number fits a broader season-long pattern of growth: through 11 races in 2026, IndyCar is averaging 1,979,000 viewers on FOX. That figure represents an 18 percent increase over the 1,678,000 average the series posted at the same point in the 2025 season, continuing a positive viewership trajectory for the sport on broadcast television.

OVALANALYSIS

Test Patterns: Milwaukee Mile

IndyCar.com’s post-test analysis at Milwaukee Mile highlighted the spread of results beyond the headline times. Scott McLaughlin was fastest at 161.189 mph — nearly one mile per hour quicker than second-placed Rinus VeeKay (160.271 mph). Andretti Global delivered the strongest team performance: Marcus Ericsson third (160.067 mph), Will Power fifth (159.942), and Kyle Kirkwood seventh (159.563). Meyer Shank Racing also impressed, with Rosenqvist fourth (160.032) and Armstrong sixth (159.706). Honda powered six of the next seven spots after the top two Chevrolets. The test totaled more than 4,800 laps, led by Power’s 266. Milwaukee hosts the Snap-on Makers and Fixers 250 and Milwaukee Mile 250 on August 29–30.

WECHYPERCAR

BMW Carries Back-to-Back Podium Momentum Into São Paulo as Hypercar Title Fight Opens Up

BMW M Team WRT arrives at Interlagos as one of Toyota’s most credible threats after a run of results that has repositioned the German manufacturer as a genuine Hypercar title contender. BMW claimed its first WEC Hypercar victory with a one-two finish at the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps before the No. 20 M Hybrid V8 of René Rast and Robin Frijns followed Toyota home in second place at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Those back-to-back results leave BMW’s Manufacturers’ tally at 96 points, 36 behind Toyota with five rounds remaining and the field heading to Brazil’s premier circuit.

WECDRIVER

Alex Lynn Still Absent From Cadillac as Stevens and Nato Go Two-Driver at Interlagos

Alex Lynn will miss the 6 Hours of São Paulo for the sixth consecutive FIA WEC round as his recovery from a neck injury extends into the second half of the 2026 season. The Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA No. 12 V-Series.R will be shared by Will Stevens and Norman Nato, replicating the two-driver arrangement used at the season-opening 6 Hours of Imola. Louis Délétraz, who has substituted for Lynn at previous rounds, is also absent this weekend. Stevens and Nato won at Interlagos in 2025 alongside Lynn, and the pair target a repeat result on Sunday.

WECHYPERCAR

Ferrari Seeks First Brazil Podium as São Paulo Curse Continues Into 2026

Ferrari arrives at Interlagos carrying the weight of an unbroken Brazilian hex. The 499P has never finished higher than fifth at the São Paulo circuit, and the car has not won a FIA WEC race since its early-season dominance ended at São Paulo 2025. Scuderia Ferrari AF Corse runs Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen in the No. 50, alongside Philip Hanson, Robert Kubica and Yifei Ye in the No. 83. The Hypercar Manufacturers’ standings show Ferrari 70 points behind Toyota and 34 behind BMW, making a strong result at Interlagos essential to any title fight.

WECGT3

IMSA Clash Forces LMGT3 Reshuffle at São Paulo as Barrichello and Catsburg Stand Down

An IMSA WeatherTech Championship clash at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park has forced two driver changes in the LMGT3 class for the 6 Hours of São Paulo. Eduardo ‘Dudu’ Barrichello will not race in his home country, with Kobe Pauwels drafted into the No. 23 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo alongside Gray Newell and Jonny Adam. At TF Sport, Nicky Catsburg stands down from the Le Mans class-winning No. 33 Corvette Z06 LMGT3.R, replaced by Nico Varrone, who will share with Ben Keating and Jonny Edgar for the round at Interlagos.

WECHYPERCAR

Aston Martin Valkyrie Hypercars Trim to Two-Driver Crews for São Paulo Round

Aston Martin’s pair of Valkyrie Hypercars will run two-driver line-ups for the 6 Hours of São Paulo, with both No. 007 and No. 009 entries slimmed down for the Interlagos round. Harry Tincknell and Tom Gamble share the No. 007 Valkyrie, while Alex Riberas and Marco Sorensen will split duties aboard the No. 009. Aston Martin’s Ross Gunn, who typically completes a third crew position in endurance format rounds, is among those absent this weekend. The Valkyrie competed at Le Mans with Gunn participating, and the two-driver format is being used to balance driving loads across the six-hour race.

WECTECHNICAL

Michelin’s New 2026 Pilot Sport Endurance Compounds Face Interlagos Test for First Time

Michelin will put its new-for-2026 Pilot Sport Endurance compounds through their first test at Interlagos this weekend when WEC Hypercar teams run the medium and hard tyre specifications at the São Paulo circuit for the first time. Each Hypercar is allocated a maximum of 30 Michelin tyres across the weekend, rising to 34 if the car reaches Hyperpole, split across three sets in practice and qualifying and the remainder for the race. The new compounds are part of Michelin’s evolved programme for the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship season and represent a fresh data-gathering exercise for all manufacturers.

IMSALMP

GTP Class Sits Out CTMP as IMSA Runs 33-Car Sprint and Ricky Taylor Crosses to LMP2

The GTP class will not compete at this weekend’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship round at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park due to a scheduling clash with the FIA WEC 6 Hours of São Paulo. A 33-car grid comprising 10 LMP2, 10 GTD Pro and 13 GTD entries will contest Sunday’s sprint race at 2:05 p.m. ET. Ricky Taylor, who races full-time in the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing GTP Cadillac, will step away from his regular seat and make a one-off LMP2 appearance for PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports, filling in as co-driver alongside Misha Goikhberg for the Canadian round.

AI/ANALYTICS

NewYork-Presbyterian Deploys OpenEvidence Clinical AI Across 10 Hospitals and 350 Sites

NewYork-Presbyterian announced July 9 it will deploy OpenEvidence’s clinical AI search tool across all 10 of its hospitals and nearly 350 care sites in New York City and Westchester County. The enterprise-wide rollout also extends access to academic partners Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Weill Cornell Medicine. OpenEvidence provides a conversational AI tool that answers clinical questions using peer-reviewed research and evidence-based guidelines. The deployment covers 45,000 employees and affiliated physicians. It represents one of the broader system-wide rollouts of evidence-based clinical AI at a major U.S. health system, which operates across New York City’s five boroughs and Westchester County.

AI/ANALYTICS

Healthcare CIOs Warned That Confident AI Outputs Pose Growing Clinical Risk Beyond Deployment

As generative AI becomes embedded in clinical workflows, healthcare CIOs face a new governance challenge: AI systems that produce plausible but inaccurate outputs with apparent authority. Lior Eshel, CEO of medical imaging company TestDynamics, warns that a model cannot flag its own hallucination, making independent verification essential. Eshel recommends hospitals compile a full inventory of deployed AI tools, secure contractual rights to independent performance testing, and validate systems against local patient populations rather than vendor-reported benchmarks. “Shared accountability is the only workable model,” he told Healthcare IT News, “and it carries a precondition: shared visibility.” He envisions AI governance becoming a continuous operational discipline rather than a one-time procurement exercise.

AI/ANALYTICS

Healthcare Leaders Divided on Autonomous AI in Medicine, but Agree Accountability Must Come First

Three healthcare executives offer divergent timelines for autonomous AI in clinical practice but agree that accountability — not model performance — will define the outcome. Dr. Niki Panich of Penguin AI notes that narrow autonomous AI already exists: FDA-authorized diabetic retinopathy screening systems have operated without physician involvement since 2018, though he says a general AI clinician is “a decade-plus” away. Dr. Jay Anders of Medicomp Systems argues clinicians must remain responsible: “We love to personify AI as a human replacement; however, humans are the ones who must remain responsible.” Bob Taylor of Altera Digital Health calls for AI to function as a “decision-support engine” grounded in physician-approved clinical standards.

EHR/EMR

KLAS: Epic Expands Global EHR Share While Oracle Suffers Major Losses Including Failed Sweden Implementation

The global electronic health record market fell to a near five-year low in 2025, with 189 decisions affecting 447 hospitals and more than 81,000 beds, according to KLAS Research’s Global Hospital EHR Market Share 2026 report released Tuesday. Epic grew its international presence through its EHR-as-a-service program, while Oracle Health recorded 34 hospital and nine organizational losses — more than half tied to a failed implementation in Sweden’s Västra Götaland Region, which ended its Oracle contract after seven years. About one-third of Oracle customers KLAS surveyed said the vendor is no longer part of their long-term plans. IQVIA had its strongest year yet in Europe and the Middle East.

WORKFORCEAI/ANALYTICS

Nurse AI Use Nearly Triples in One Year but Most Remain Skeptical of Output Accuracy

Registered nurses’ AI use in clinical workflows nearly tripled in one year — from 15% to 44% — per Incredible Health’s 2026 Annual State of Nursing report, which surveyed 2,240 U.S. nurses. Those using AI regularly are less likely to fear job displacement (37%), but 83% say AI output is “rarely or only sometimes accurate enough to act on without checking it first.” Only 8% of nurses report their employer has set a clear AI strategy, and one in five say AI tools “just appear” without explanation from leadership. Among nurses using AI for clinical tasks, 28% use Epic AI, 8% use ambient documentation tools, and 4% use OpenEvidence.

AI/ANALYTICS

SE Health CDO: Treating Data Like Cash Is Prerequisite to Trustworthy Healthcare AI

Robert Slepin, chief digital officer at SE Health, one of Canada’s largest home health providers, argues healthcare leaders manage financial assets with precision but treat data with far less rigor. “From my experience, healthcare providers do not govern and manage data assets as well as they oversee and administer financial resources such as cash,” Slepin told Healthcare IT News. SE Health has established a Data Governance Council to clarify ownership and resolve contested definitions before major system go-lives. Slepin, also a CIO advisor in Epic’s emeritus program, says poorly governed data raises the likelihood that AI systems will produce biased or confidently false results.

AI/ANALYTICSTELEHEALTH

Baptist Health Partners With Vega Health to Deploy AI Patient Screening for Hospital-at-Home Program

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health has partnered with Vega Health to deploy an AI screening tool for its Hospital at Home program, which launched in February at Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville. Vega Health’s large language model scans inpatient charts against Baptist Health’s eligibility criteria to identify candidates for home-based hospital care, then routes them to clinical staff, per a July 9 release. The platform runs inside Baptist Health’s secure cloud, keeping patient data in-house. The partnership plans two additional use cases: surfacing medication history during emergency-department-to-inpatient transitions and using predictive analytics to flag health concerns earlier.

INDUSTRYANALYSIS

U.S. Fundraising Salaries Rose 0.9 Percent in 2025 While Benefits Costs Climb

U.S. fundraising salaries grew modestly in 2025, reaching an average of $97,280 — a 0.9 percent increase from the prior year — while Canadian salaries rebounded to $104,442, up 6.2 percent, according to the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy’s annual compensation study. Drawing on responses from approximately 2,700 AFP members, the report highlights rising benefit costs as a new pressure point: 43 percent of U.S. organizations reported healthcare premium increases. A persistent gender gap remains — women averaged $93,753 compared to $118,038 for men. Despite these pressures, just 18 percent of respondents reported actively seeking new employment.

FUNDRAISINGANALYSIS

Summer Is the Season to Build Fall Gifts, Fundraiser Argues in NPQ Column

Fundraiser Rhea Wong, writing in her NPQ “Ask Rhea” column, challenges a common myth: donors do not disappear in summer — fundraisers do. Drawing on her experience at Breakthrough New York, Wong argues that July is when fall gifts are built, not when they close. She outlines three strategies: conduct a portfolio review, sort contacts into advancing and stalled, and cut those unlikely to give; book 15 to 20 donor meetings before September 1; and send stewardship communications with no strings attached — mid-year impact updates or handwritten notes. Major gifts committed in December are, in her telling, made in July.

POLICYANALYSIS

School Finance Is Driven by Political Theft, Not Passive Inequity, Author Argues

In a new NPQ interview, author David I. Backer explains why his bookAs Public as Possibleargues that school finance is driven by deliberate political choices, not passive inequity. Using West Contra Costa Unified School District as a case study, Backer shows how racialized property markets and debt structures — not local mismanagement — create educational underfunding. He prefers the language of “theft” over “inequity,” and highlights Minnesota’s 1971 Fiscal Disparities Act as a model of redistributive school finance. He also traces how municipal bond financing links school construction to firearms industry lenders, creating a troubling structural contradiction.

INNOVATIONPHILANTHROPY

Philanthropy Is Losing the AI Governance Fight Because It Funds Adaptation, Not Action

Philanthropy is losing the race to govern artificial intelligence, argue Linda Saleh and Elizabeth Daniel Vasquez in the Chronicle of Philanthropy. The authors identify three funder failures: accepting the myth that AI expansion is inevitable; defining AI’s harms too narrowly, missing the environmental costs borne by frontline communities; and overlooking local permitting fights and procurement decisions where AI’s terms are actually set. With Big Tech investing aggressively in state political campaigns, the authors urge funders to support political and legal fights — not just technical adaptation — and to work across issue silos rather than in fragmented streams.

PHILANTHROPYINNOVATION

SVCF CEO Says AI Employee Philanthropy Wave Is Coming but Not Here Yet

SVCF President and CEO Nicole Taylor tells Inside Philanthropy that a wave of AI employee philanthropy may be forming — but it has not arrived yet. Most AI wealth remains on paper as pre-IPO equity, and historically new tech workers enter serious charitable giving only after a “sudden wealth event” such as an IPO or acquisition. Taylor draws on SVCF’s $2 billion in annual grantmaking to argue that nonprofits should connect now with local community foundations, which form a network of more than 800 institutions. She expressed skepticism about proposals to build a new philanthropic infrastructure layer from scratch.

PHILANTHROPYIMPACT

Women Inheritors Could Redirect the $100 Trillion Wealth Transfer Toward Racial Equity

The Great Wealth Transfer is poised to move approximately $100 trillion across generations over the next two decades — but roughly 80 percent of that wealth will transfer within white families, deepening the racial wealth gap. Writing in Alliance Magazine, Katherine Hayes of In Her Interest argues that women inheritors hold an outsized opportunity to redirect these flows. Because research shows women give at higher rates than men, she contends that justice-minded strategies — including trust-based philanthropy, impact investing in community loan funds, and deliberate estate planning — could meaningfully reduce structural inequality if widely adopted.