Medical records could be revealed by AI training-data vulnerability

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  • Correction 26 June 2026: The story about medical AI-data privacy incorrectly stated that the success of membership inference attacks increases as training dataset size grows. It should have stated that the increase in success occurs when the AI model increases in capacity and size.

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