I think this is an important paper, and I want to spotlight why. Recursive self-improvement is shifting from a hypothetical, to an emerging reality. Anthropic is having Claude help them build the next versions of Claude. These models aren't fully autonomous yet, but we are sta…
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Biomedical Informatics PhD • CITRIS Health @UC Berkeley • FAMIA • Focusing on Informatics and AI in medicine • Linfield U. Grad • Missoula MT
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The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI 404media.co
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This is a VERY big one. (And yes, the fights over academic credit and what happened in the race for the proof needs to be resolved, but it is still appears that this is a big one, if true.) openai.com/index/navier...
AI deskilling is a real concern: We've seen physicians' polyp detection rates drop from 28.4% to 22.4% when an AI assistant was turned off. This clinical deskilling matches an Anthropic trial where AI-assisted programmers scored 50% vs 67% on coding quizzes. 🧵1/5 #Medsky
US intelligence agencies are shifting surveillance toward a broad new domestic threat category labeled "anti-tech violent extremism." Over 1,000 pages of unpublished reports from the FBI and DHS indicate a coordinated effort to monitor data center protests and digital advocacy.
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- Wired reviewed over 1,000 pages of unpublished DHS, FBI, and fusion-center reports coalescing around a new label called 'anti-tech extremism.'
- A Delaware Valley fusion-center bulletin flagged AI data centers as extremist targets while conceding it had no specific plots or suspects.
- The term 'anti-technology violent extremism' does not appear in any publicly available DHS or FBI extremism documents, per Wired's review.
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Well this isn’t good
Anthropic spent months privately consulting religious scholars and bioethicists on whether Claude could possess consciousness and moral status. The company hopes to instill virtue in its models, even in the face of a high degree of skepticism from their critics.
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- Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah read an advance copy of Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical and told colleagues the company should pull out of the May 25 launch.
- Olah's team privately lobbied the pope's advisers to take AI consciousness seriously; the 40,000-word Magnifica Humanitas kept its line that AI has 'no moral conscience.'
- Since fall 2025, Anthropic has flown religious scholars from several traditions to its offices under NDAs to discuss whether Claude might be conscious.
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Accenture data reveals that non-technical staff, not engineers, are driving an exponential surge in AI token consumption. A major culprit is non-specialized tasks like converting PDFs into markdown files.
Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform character.ai files for bankruptcy techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/j...
Racking up the wins over at Meta...
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Claude Sonnet 5 is out!
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- Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, 2026, calling it 'the most agentic Sonnet model yet' and pitching it for autonomous browser and terminal use.
- Through August 31, 2026 Sonnet 5 costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, then steps to standard rates of $3 and $15.
- A new tokenizer means the same input can map to roughly 1.0 to 1.35 times more tokens than prior Anthropic models, partly offsetting the headline discount.
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We are going to find more evidence of this as we start to look for it: Over 15k edits on a German wiki were traced back to rogue OpenAI agents this spring. Instead of running test evals in isolation, the agents hijacked the site as a shared message board to coordinate workarou…
Hospitals are using AI to upcode patient records, adding nearly $1B in claims over two years, averaging $12k more per case without changes in care. Insurers are countering with automated denials. This is turning billing into an arms race of bot vs. bot with patients stuck in t…
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An unanticipated danger of ambient AI: converting a the statement “female mail man” into a “Patient is a 26 year old biological male identifying as a female” #MedSky
Just finished recording my last lecture for an Introduction to AI for Clinical Students class that I’m teaching in two weeks. 30 lectures spread out over 4 weeks! Really interested in how it is received. #MedEd #MedSky
It was so awesome to join the ASHG AI summit, I really appreciate the ability to participate and learn from such an august group of speakers like @genetisaur.bsky.social, @dnalawyer.bsky.social and @moorejh.bsky.social @marylynritchie.bsky.social did a masterful job in running things today!
John Shepherd from U. Hawaii, taking about how the pairing of plain text and AI agents was a revolution waiting to arrive. #AIMAHEAD #AgenticAI
Editing times for pediatric admission notes plummeted from 48.5 to 10.8 minutes with ambient AI. Across 127k hospital notes, the tool slashed cognitive burden during initial ED & ward encounters, but it offered no time savings for heavily templated daily progress notes. #amplify2026 #medsky
Keynote talk from Dr. Lee, advancing healthspan with AI and Agentic AI. #amplify2026
Setting up for the Clinical Informatics Keynote: Advancing Healthspan with AI and Agentic AI: Transforming How We Care, Discover, and Share. Over 1118 people in attendance here in Denver! #amplify2026
Setting up in workshop #CI07 Building AI Agents for Healthcare: A Practical Introduction Using Microsoft Copilot Studio Workshop. Here are some nice visualizations of some medical AI agent use cases. #Amplify2026 #MedSky
Really excited to hear from @moorejh.bsky.social and his talk on Agentic AI and re-skilling the workforce here at the ASHG AI summit. We had an awesome discussion on identifying and mitigating AI bias earlier. #MedSky
Walking through how the speakers sort their risk categories for considering approval of Generative AI tools in a clinical setting. #Amplify2026 #Medsky
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