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Artificial intelligence in health care may sound futuristic, but doctors at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center are already using it behind the scenes to help improve performance during minimally invasive surgeries.

How it works: GE Healthcare’s Allia Moveo acts as a high-tech imaging machine that doctors use during surgery, which helps them see blood vessels and other structures more clearly, according to a news release from GE Healthcare. The machine uses AI to help improve image quality by reducing visual distortions caused by things like breathing or blood flow.

Those improvements use AI, not as a replacement for doctors, but as practical technology to help them work more confidently and efficiently, said Kat Davis, vice president and general manager for GE Healthcare’s interventional solutions business.

“This is not ChatGPT for surgeons,” Davis said. “This is about allowing the physician to make the best possible clinical choices at the point of care.”

Also of note: AI still has governance that is ruled by a committee, which ensures there is always a clinician present with a patient.

D. Bradley McWilliams YMCA at Cypress Creek will celebrate their new soccer mini-pitch that opened to Y members earlier in June with an official ribbon-cutting on June 30, public relations officials confirmed.

At a glance: The grand opening celebration open to the community will be begin at 5 p.m, per the D. Bradley McWilliams YMCA Instagram. There will be free soccer jerseys, cookies and refreshments, all while supplies last.

Per the news release, the new pitch is a part of U.S. Soccer Foundation's program Safe Places to Play that aims to create 1,000 mini-pitches across the country by the end of the year, and Pillsbury was also involved in the addition designed to expand access to soccer and active play. Mini-pitches are hard-court, customized surfaces intended for soccer pick-up games and programs.

• Opened June 2026

• 19915 Hwy. 249, Houston

As the Fourth of July holiday approaches, local officials are encouraging residents to know how to safely use and dispose of fireworks after the festivities end.

What residents need to know: However, residents are allowed to use fireworks in the unincorporated areas of Harris, Fort Bend and Montgomery counties. As part of the Fourth of July holiday, first responders are encouraging the safe use of any fireworks by following several safety tips, including:

• Only light one firework at a time
• Have ready access to a water source
• Never relight fireworks after use

• Sound of fireworks
• Firework restriction information
• Abandoned firework debris