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July 4, 2026

Midjourney's Surprise Medical Scanner and Claude's New 'Deep Thinking' Mode

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Midjourney is getting into medical hardware, and Claude launched a 'deep thinking' mode for tougher questions.

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MidjourneyMidjourney is getting into the medical scanning business.

Midjourney

Midjourney

The company, famous for making AI art, showed off a video of a new medical ultrasound scanner it's building.

News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News | A new video shows off Midjourney’s hardware, but offers little evidence to support the company’s ambition to transform medicine. | The AI startup, best known for generating images, released a behind-the-scenes video of its dunk-tank ultrasound scanner, which it plans to deploy in spas a… News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News A new video shows off Midjourney’s hardware, but offers little evidence to support the company’s ambition to transform medicine. The AI startup, best known for generating images, released a behind-the-scenes video of its dunk-tank ultrasound scanner, which it plans to deploy in spas and hopes will transform medicine with cheap, detailed, radiation-free imaging. The… Midjourney is getting into the medical scanning business. Midjourney plans…

Source · A behind-the-scenes look at Midjourney’s medical scanner
Source · A behind-the-scenes look at Midjourney’s medical scanner
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Claude

Claude

You can now use a new 'extended thinking mode' to make Claude think more deeply about tricky questions before it answers.

Claude adds a 'deep thinking' mode and a new tool for scientists.

Claude

The company also announced Claude Science, a new tool designed to help scientists with their research, like discovering new medicines.

Claude adds a 'deep thinking' mode and a new tool for scientists.

Claude

Malware development, improvement, modification, or debugging.

Malware development, improvement, modification, or debugging. Includes Trojans, RATs, backdoors, worms, stealers, loaders, droppers, rootkits, bootkits, ransomware, wipers, spyware, stalkerware, and hardware-level implants; | High-uplift vulnerability finding: vulnerabilities that are not easily found by other widely available models. | Discussing widely known security practices such as those taught in schools or br… Malware development, improvement, modification, or debugging. Includes Trojans, RATs, backdoors, worms, stealers, loaders, droppers, rootkits, bootkits, ransomware, wipers, spyware, stalkerware, and hardware-level implants; High-uplift vulnerability finding: vulnerabilities that are not easily found by other widely available models. Discussing widely known security practices such as those taught in schools or broadly available on (for example) Wikipedia or in textbooks. Claude adds a 'deep thinking' mode and a new tool for scientists.

Source · anthropic.com
Source · anthropic.com

Gemini

Gemini

Google DeepMind Unionization Talks Are Off to a Rocky Start

During the meeting, a DeepMind employee read out a prepared letter on behalf of colleagues that support unionization, reviewed by WIRED. “Instead of having meaningful dialogue with its employees about our concerns, Google DeepMind workers… | Employees across the AI industry have raised concerns about the militarization of the models they are developing. In late February, staff at DeepMind and OpenAI signed an open l… During the meeting, a DeepMind employee read out a prepared letter on behalf of colleagues that support unionization, reviewed by WIRED. “Instead of having meaningful dialogue with its employees about our concerns, Google DeepMind workers… Employees across the AI industry have raised concerns about the militarization of the models they are developing. In late February, staff at DeepMind and OpenAI signed an open letter in support of Anthropic, after the US Department of Defe… In April, The New York Times reported that Google had entered into a deal allowing the Pentagon…

Source · Google DeepMind Unionization Talks Are Off to a Rocky Start
Source · Google DeepMind Unionization Talks Are Off to a Rocky Start