The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new product aimed at automating blood draws in outpatient situations. Aletta is a standalone robotic device capable of drawing blood from a patient's arm. It uses near-infrared light and Doppler ultrasound to identify a vein and then automates the other processes of a blood draw, such as applying a tourniquet, inserting and disposing of a needle and placing a bandage on the patient. A trained phlebotomist must begin the procedure and oversee the device while it is in use, but a single person can monitor up to three Aletta robots at once. "Blood draws are one of the most commonly performed medical procedures in the United States, yet patients may face delays due to a growing shortage of trained phlebotomists." said Michelle Tarver, director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. The approval for Aletta was granted based on clinical data showing it was capable of successful blood draws at rates comparable to or better than a phlebotomist.

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Google and the UK government are collaborating on a project to test whether airplanes can avoid creating contrails. The project, called Operation Blue Skies, will conduct the trial over Shanwick airspace, which sits above the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Contrails are the long white streaks in the sky left by jet engines. Most often created in cold, humid air, they form when water vapor condenses and freezes around aircraft exhaust. Researchers estimate that they contribute to about one-third of aviation's total climate impact.

Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude's Invisible Watermarks Anthropic announced last week it would include invisible watermarks in AI-generated content to comply with new EU rules. Within hours, overrides were being touted online. Within four hours of Anthropic confirming that Claude models would globally embed invisible, machine-readable watermarks into any AI-generated content, developer Guillaume Meyer had published his override. His code to remove watermarks from Claude-generated text has since gone viral on GitHub, has been bookmarked more than 20,000 times on X, and has drawn more than 100 contributors, with many more incorporating the technology into their own projects. "Anthropic is embedding watermarks in its Claude texts the issue is practically history just one day later," wrote one AI specialist, accompanied by an image of Meyer breaking out of chains and standing on crumpled EU and Anthropic flags.

Poland says it is preparing for war as Russia threatens Britain with consequences over drone warfare in Ukraine. A retired NATO commander warns of alliance divisions.