The Good AI

The side of AI that doesn't make the headlines. We’re a Product Manager and a Risk Manager sorting through the noise to find the tech news that actually feels like progress. No doom, no jargon, just a weekly look at how things are getting better.

A clinic in Nairobi can now run expert-level cancer screening 🌿

Sep 25, 2026

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A clinic in Nairobi can now run expert-level cancer screening 🌿

An open-weights CT model, a 417 to 3 vote on who pays for AI's power, and auditors moving inside the labs.

They deleted it from a yeast cell. The cell broke. Then the human version fixed it.🌿

Sep 18, 2026

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They deleted it from a yeast cell. The cell broke. Then the human version fixed it.🌿

A hidden human protein, a tokenizer tax on people who don't speak English, and Massachusetts banning the NDAs.

The people who suffer most in a heatwave, and never say so 🌿

Sep 11, 2026

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The people who suffer most in a heatwave, and never say so 🌿

Plus: A self-driving car that explains itself, and the survey undercutting the whole AI jobs panic.

How do you prepare for a disaster that has never happened? 🌿

Sep 4, 2026

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How do you prepare for a disaster that has never happened? 🌿

An AI that imagines the storm no city has recorded, plus what two years of AI tutoring showed.

1,763 students in Sierra Leone gave AI tutoring its first real test 🌿

Aug 28, 2026

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1,763 students in Sierra Leone gave AI tutoring its first real test 🌿

A gold-standard AI tutoring result, California's biggest AI week, and the hurricane model Google gave away.

What happens when AI searches where human attention gives out? 🌿

Aug 21, 2026

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4 min read

What happens when AI searches where human attention gives out? 🌿

Columbia's sperm-finding AI, a 37-year maths record shattered, and a monkey detector built in Nepal.