The rumor is Gemini 3.5 pro will be released next week.
It had previously been announced (at Google I/O) to be released in June, but it got pushed back. Why? Rumors range from they are having trouble to they scrapped an old framework to pursue a new one and the new model will surpass Fable 5 and be cheaper.
It's not as great as you might think, despite all the stories you see like this one. That's because most of the stories are in cells (this one) or mice.
The big success story, about 20 years old now, is testicular cancer. You can have metastatic testicular cancer with tumors all over your body (like Lance Armstrong had) and they can cure it. They use platinum based chemotherapy and it's not really well understood why it works for testicular cancer, but not others.
The story with childhood leukemias is similar. They figured out how to combine a bunch of chemotherapy to get the cure rate up pretty high. Leukemia in a child used to be (1990s) 90% fatal, it's like 10% now.
Besides those, most of the advances in the past few decades come from early detection/ surgery or just prevention (stop smoking).
There is some hope though. When people first started studying cancers at the molecular level, one of the first things they noticed was how often a gene called Ras was mutated in different cancers. It turns out that designing a drug for Ras was really hard, but it finally got done, it's called daraxonrasib. They just released phase III human trials with this drug in pancreatic cancer a week or two ago and it destroyed the standard of care (Chemotherapy), but that is saying people who were dying in 1-2 months were still alive after 5-6 months.
The former senator Ben Sasse was diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer last December. Historically, that's like 5% survival rate for 5 years. He is on daraxonrasib. We will see how it works out.
It's not a SQUID. There is new technology (quantum magnetometry) that measures slight shifts in molecular energy levels inside defects in synthetic diamonds. One of the google/alphabet spinouts from their quantum computing research is commercializing the technology (SandboxAQ).
The have a non contact MCG, like a EKG, but no electrical contacts. They can definitely "see" the heart beating from a few feet away.
SandboxAQ is also developing a navigation version. Put this sensitive magnetometer on a plane. You get very sensitive measurements of the local magnetic field. Once they have a region mapped, you can get exact positioning just from measuring magnetic fields.
You can extrapolate from SandboxAQ and get long range detection of a human heart. I don't know if it's real, but if so it's probably came out of that research effort.
It had previously been announced (at Google I/O) to be released in June, but it got pushed back. Why? Rumors range from they are having trouble to they scrapped an old framework to pursue a new one and the new model will surpass Fable 5 and be cheaper.