AI chatbots can now match or beat doctors at diagnosis: one 2026 study found OpenAI's o1 model reached 78% accuracy on complex cases from the New England Journal of Medicine. Doctors build illness scripts, mental shortcuts of what a disease typically looks like, and large language models work in a similar way by predicting patterns learned from medical text. Management is harder. After a diagnosis, doctors choose among several reasonable options, such as surgery, radiation or monitoring a slow-growing prostate cancer, and the right choice depends on the patient's other conditions, values and tolerance for uncertainty. Scoring tools can handle the numbers, but risk and trust are shaped by individual experience, which AI cannot fully weigh.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.