Zohaib Akhtar

[These is related to my visit to Baghdad in October 2025, at the invitation of the ICRC Iraq Delegation and the Iraqi Ministry of Health, to evaluate healthcare care in the country.] What I remember most is the fear. Iraqi emergency departments are too disciplined for panic; this was something quieter and harder to watch. The attending physicians carried patient loads that would break most of their Western colleagues. They knew what good care looked like, and they knew they could not always...

A few years ago the most widely deployed sepsis prediction model in American hospitals was independently evaluated. Sepsis is what happens when an ordinary infection tips the body into a chain reaction that starts shutting down organs. It can kill within hours, often before anyone realizes how sick the patient is. The model built to catch it caught only one in three real cases, and flagged one in five of every hospitalized patient as high risk. Clinicians learned fast. The alert fires...

I followed Apple's WWDC keynote this year, and then most of a week of writing about it, waiting for someone to say the thing that seemed obvious to me by the end. No one did. So here it is. Apple has stopped trying to build the best AI. It has decided to own the place where AI meets you instead. That is the real story of this keynote, and once you see it, the announcements stop looking like a pile of features and line up behind a single decision. Here is why it matters. When AI starts doing...