Temporal Point Processes (TPPs) are widely used for modeling event sequences in various medical domains, such as disease onset prediction, progression analysis, and clinical decision support. Although TPPs effectively capture temporal dynamics, their lack of interpretability remains a critical challenge. Recent advancements have introduced interpretable TPPs. However, these methods fail to incorporate numerical features, thereby limiting their ability to generate precise predictions. To address this issue, we propose Hybrid-Rule Temporal Point Processes (HRTPP), a novel framework that integrates temporal logic rules with numerical features, improving both interpretability and predictive accuracy in event modeling. HRTPP comprises three key components: basic intensity for intrinsic event likelihood, rule-based intensity for structured temporal dependencies, and numerical feature intensity for dynamic probability modulation. To effectively discover valid rules, we introduce a two-phase rule mining strategy with Bayesian optimization. To evaluate our method, we establish a multi-criteria assessment framework, incorporating rule validity, model fitting, and temporal predictive accuracy. Experimental results on real-world medical datasets demonstrate that HRTPP outperforms state-of-the-art interpretable TPPs in terms of predictive performance and clinical interpretability. In case studies, the rules extracted by HRTPP explain the disease progression, offering valuable contributions to medical diagnosis.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. conducts a news conference to discuss the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network survey.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP While his anti-vaccine allies swooned and scientists cringed, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used his first-ever press conference this week, in response to new data showing an apparent increase in the number of autistic kids, to promote a variety of debunked, half-true, and deeply ableist ideas about autism. He painted the condition as a terrifying "disease" that "destroys," as he put it, children and their families. Kennedy made it clear he planned to use his powerful role as the person in charge of a massive federal agency devoted to protecting public health to promote the idea that autism is caused by "environmental factors," a still-speculative thesis that's clearly a short walk towards advancing his real aim: blaming vaccines. Kennedy has spent the last 20 years promoting anti-vaccine rhetoric, falsely and repeatedly claiming that vaccines are linked to autism. Yet as the press conference made clear, Kennedy knows startlingly little about autism.

Under no circumstances should you let AI do your schoolwork for you, but Google has decided to make that option a little bit easier for the next year. The company is offering a free year of it's Google One AI Premium plan, which includes Gemini Advanced, access to the AI assistant in the Google Workspace and things like Gemini Live, to any college student willing to sign up. The offer gives you a sample platter of Google's latest AI features, which normally costs 20 per month, and is primarily focused on things you can do with Gemini. That includes experimental products like NotebookLM for analyzing documents, and Whisk for remixing images and videos. Because this is a Google One plan, you'll also get 2TB of Google Drive storage for the parade of PDFs that make up college life.

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your in-box. Elon Musk, who's taking his chainsaw to the federal government, is not merely a chaos agent, as he is sometimes described. Jill Lepore, the best-selling author of "These Truths" and other books, says that Musk is animated by obsessions and a sense of mission he acquired through reading, and misreading, science fiction. "When he keeps saying, you know, 'We're at a fork in the road. The future of human civilization depends on this election,' he means SpaceX," she tells David Remnick.

The message from experts is clear: artificial intelligence (AI) can help professionals spend less time on repetitive, time-consuming tasks and more on value-adding activities. However, there's just one issue: what are these value-adding activities? Senior executives may like the sound of highly paid staff spending less time on mundane activities, but only if these professionals use their saved time effectively. So, how can you make the most of the time you save by using AI? Five experts share their top tips. Gabriela Vogel, vice president analyst in Gartner's Executive Leadership of Digital Business practice, said it's crucial to consider how professionals will use spare time in an age of AI -- and it's an area she's researching right now.

Earlier this week via blog post, OpenAI released their newest AI models: o3 and o4-mini. These models are the company's "smartest and most capable models to date" and their first reasoning models that can also reason when it comes to images. In short, these AI models can use an image--such as a photograph or a sketch--as part of an analysis. The models can also adjust, zoom in on, and rotate an image during reasoning. For the first time, our reasoning models can agentically use and combine every tool within ChatGPT, including web search, Python, image analysis, file interpretation, and image generation.

It's one of the most profound questions in science – did life ever exist on Mars? Now, experts have unearthed evidence that the Red Planet was once habitable. Scientists have found carbon residue in Martian rocks, indicating that an ancient carbon cycle existed. And it means the Red Planet was likely once warm enough to sustain life. Researchers have long believed that, billions of years ago, Mars had a thick, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere with liquid water on its surface.

People have found a new use for ChatGPT: Figuring out locations from photos. OpenAI's latest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, can analyze images beyond just recognizing objects; they can zoom in, crop, and detect visual clues in photos to help identify places, landmarks, and even specific businesses. This capability is fascinating, but it's also raised some privacy concerns about how easily people can use AI to reverse-engineer location data from images. Also: ChatGPT just made it easy to find and edit all the AI images you've ever generated TechCrunch reported that people are uploading photos -- anything from restaurant menu snapshots to casual selfies -- and asking ChatGPT to guess where they were taken. The AI does this by looking at everything in the image: the type of buildings, landscape features, and even subtle hints like the architecture or the layout of a city.

Your LG TV might soon keep tabs on your emotional state to show you more relevant ads. In a recent press release, marketing and data science company Zenapse announced a partnership with LG to bring "emotionally intelligent insights and targeting" to connected televisions -- or ads targeted to your emotions. Zenapse will use a technology called "ZenVision" that watches content along with the viewer. It's automatic content recognition, or a form of surveillance that understands what type of content you watch, and most smart TVs use it (ZDNET editor Chris Bayer recommends turning this off, by the way). Traditional automatic content recognition builds a demographic profile including information like your age and location, but ZenVision, which is coming to LG televisions (the company didn't say which models specifically), takes that information and uses AI to build a psychological profile to show ads that will resonate with you.

The high-end iRobot Roomba Combo 10 Max Autowash Dock hybrid robot vacuum/mop is on sale for 741 right now via Woot. Just enter the discount code "ENGADGET47" at checkout. This is a discount of 47 percent, which is more than 650 off the regular price of 1,400. The Roomba Combo 10 Max is the company's most premium model and filled to the brim with high-tech advancements. This is a hybrid unit, so it vacuums and mops. However, the model goes even further and can actually wash and dry the mopping pad.