Mario Aguilar
@mariojoze.bsky.social
Reporter and editor and other things. Covering tech and health care at STAT News. mario.aguilar@statnews.com
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Mental health chatbot developer Slingshot AI wants the world to believe that its smartphone app, Ash, will do more good than harm. The evidence that the company offers, though, raises more questions than answers, @mariojoze.bsky.social writes:
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Is Slingshot’s mental health chatbot safe? Its first study raises questions about evaluating AI
Slingshot AI publishes new data showing its chatbot Ash is safe, but experts say the study offers little clinical proof.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Mental health chatbot developer Slingshot AI wants the world to believe that its smartphone app, Ash, will do more good than harm. The evidence that the company offers, though, raises more questions than answers, @mariojoze.bsky.social writes:
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We got burned by an AI freelancer and a few missteps of our own. Here's the full disclosure on that. All I can add from my vantage here is that my work has always been subject to rigorous fact checking. It's sometimes a days long, maddening process, but 100% of the time I am grateful in the end.
How WIRED Got Rolled by an AI Freelancer
We retracted a story in May. Here’s what happened.
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August 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
We got burned by an AI freelancer and a few missteps of our own. Here's the full disclosure on that. All I can add from my vantage here is that my work has always been subject to rigorous fact checking. It's sometimes a days long, maddening process, but 100% of the time I am grateful in the end.
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Important story. I covered this back in July, too: www.wired.com/story/usaid-...
August 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Important story. I covered this back in July, too: www.wired.com/story/usaid-...
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Under Chris Klomp’s watch, crucial decisions will be made about the direction of Medicare. And, @mariojoze.bsky.social reports, given other insurers often follow Medicare's lead, Klomp is in a position to influence the broader health care system.
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This health tech exec is in charge of Medicare, and he has big ambitions
A close look at Chris Klomp's path to the top of Medicare, which pays for the health care of 68 million Americans.
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April 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Under Chris Klomp’s watch, crucial decisions will be made about the direction of Medicare. And, @mariojoze.bsky.social reports, given other insurers often follow Medicare's lead, Klomp is in a position to influence the broader health care system.
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He's a faith-driven, 44-year-old health tech entrepreneur from Idaho who just got put in charge of Medicare.
Read about his ambitions to reform the ~$1 trillion program in this deeply-reported profile by @mariojoze.bsky.social, via @statnews.com:
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Read about his ambitions to reform the ~$1 trillion program in this deeply-reported profile by @mariojoze.bsky.social, via @statnews.com:
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This health tech exec is in charge of Medicare, and he has big ambitions
A close look at Chris Klomp's path to the top of Medicare, which pays for the health care of 68 million Americans.
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April 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
He's a faith-driven, 44-year-old health tech entrepreneur from Idaho who just got put in charge of Medicare.
Read about his ambitions to reform the ~$1 trillion program in this deeply-reported profile by @mariojoze.bsky.social, via @statnews.com:
www.statnews.com/2025/04/28/m... via @statnews.com
Read about his ambitions to reform the ~$1 trillion program in this deeply-reported profile by @mariojoze.bsky.social, via @statnews.com:
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A proudly frugal tech CEO now runs Medicare, where he’ll hunt for savings on a far bigger stage https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/28/medicare-director-chris-klomp-health-tech-executive-with-ambitions/
A proudly frugal tech CEO now runs Medicare, where he'll hunt for savings on a far bigger stage
A close look at Chris Klomp's path to the top of Medicare, which pays for the health care of 68 million Americans.
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April 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A proudly frugal tech CEO now runs Medicare, where he’ll hunt for savings on a far bigger stage https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/28/medicare-director-chris-klomp-health-tech-executive-with-ambitions/
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The website ‘refresh’ — that included changing references to "health equity" — reflects a commitment to building products that improve everyone’s health, according to Google, @mariojoze.bsky.social reports:
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For Google, health equity becomes 'health optimization' as Trump targets DEI
Google recently revised its websites and changed a senior executive's title to downplay its commitment to health equity.
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March 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The website ‘refresh’ — that included changing references to "health equity" — reflects a commitment to building products that improve everyone’s health, according to Google, @mariojoze.bsky.social reports:
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NEW: Google scrubs 'health equity' from its website as Trump attacks DEI www.statnews.com/2025/03/10/g...
March 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
NEW: Google scrubs 'health equity' from its website as Trump attacks DEI www.statnews.com/2025/03/10/g...
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Lawmakers ask the FDA to review Hims’ Super Bowl ad for "misleading" patients, foreshadow that they plan to introduce legislation to address ads that omit safety info, via
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Lawmakers ask FDA to review Hims’ Super Bowl ad for ‘misleading’ patients
Two senators wrote to the FDA Friday about the Hims Super Bowl ad, which they said misleads patients about compounded weight loss drugs.
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February 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Lawmakers ask the FDA to review Hims’ Super Bowl ad for "misleading" patients, foreshadow that they plan to introduce legislation to address ads that omit safety info, via
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Transcarent acquires Accolade for $621 million to create benefits tech giant -- news from @mariojoze.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/01/08/t... via @statnews.com
Transcarent acquires Accolade for $621 million to create benefits tech giant
Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman spent much of 2024 hinting that his health benefits upstart might be shopping around for acquisitions, and just over a week
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January 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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FDA-cleared apps for everything from depression to opioid use disorder have struggled to gain adoption, and one company just abandoned its app after 4 years of development. @mariojoze.bsky.social explains the dynamics behind a struggling digital therapeutic: www.statnews.com/2024/12/03/o...
December 4, 2024 at 6:03 PM
FDA-cleared apps for everything from depression to opioid use disorder have struggled to gain adoption, and one company just abandoned its app after 4 years of development. @mariojoze.bsky.social explains the dynamics behind a struggling digital therapeutic: www.statnews.com/2024/12/03/o...
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Relevant to everyone on the platform! Bluesky is the new destination for X/Twitter’s health and science community. Here’s why www.statnews.com/2024/11/21/b... via @statnews @katiepalmer.bsky.social
Bluesky is the new destination for X/Twitter’s health and science community. Here's why
#MedTwitter is migrating en masse from X to Bluesky, suddenly making it an essential hub for scientific discourse. Here's why.
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November 21, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Relevant to everyone on the platform! Bluesky is the new destination for X/Twitter’s health and science community. Here’s why www.statnews.com/2024/11/21/b... via @statnews @katiepalmer.bsky.social