Scott Booher

Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'

At Least 750 US Hospitals Faced Disruptions During Last Year’s CrowdStrike Outage, Study Finds Of those, more than 200 appear to have had outages of services related to patient care following CrowdStrike’s disastrous crash, researchers have revealed.

Of those, more than 200 appear to have had outages of services related to patient care following CrowdStrike’s disastrous crash, researchers have revealed. www.wired.com/story/at-lea...

Variations of true semantic search, with cosines all the way down.

This Is DOGE 2.0 Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies—even without Musk in government.

“All it takes is people taking you seriously for you to be there,” says Lavingia. “The whole operation has always been done on Signal, so nothing actually has to change about that operationally for him to continue telling people what to do, getting reports, et cetera …"

Microsoft Says Its New AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors The tech giant poached several top Google researchers to help build a powerful AI tool that can diagnose patients and potentially cut health care costs.

“The Microsoft team used 304 case studies sourced from the New England Journal of Medicine to devise a test called the Sequential Diagnosis Benchmark. A language model broke down each case into a step-by-step process that a doctor would perform in order to reach a diagnosis."

The SXSW interview is worth a watch. Such an impressive CEO.

“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

I waffle back and forth between reminding myself to show some grace for those who simply don’t engage fully - and thinking that perhaps we are just too ignorant and lazy as a population to keep this great democratic experiment going any longer.

Genuinely curious what Sonos thinks the market is for *new* products from them, with thousands of us still sitting out here with bricked/unreliable speakers after the software debacle.

No time for that Mehdi - Dem Senators are all home, reviewing a powerpoint on 'social media posting tips', and writing their next fundraising email.

I'd really like to know why my MN Senator is not coordinating with a few others, and walking into the Treasury building THIS WEEKEND with cameras rolling. Tweets, strongly worded memos and hoped-for future investigations aren't going to cut it anymore.

Is the Treasury building where this is happening somehow inaccessible to US Senators? Is it in a far-off land that no one can reach? If not, could some US Senators possibly show up there with cameras running, walk in, and make a stink?

Wouldn't half a dozen US Senators walking into Treasury with cameras rolling, be a good start? Let one of Musk's lackeys introduce himself by his first name only, and take it from there.

With a muzzled/ineffective press, Dem 'leaders' gone home for the weekend w/ no idea what to do, DOGE taking control of the US treasury and a snap trade war - it really does seem like this weekend will be remembered, in infamy.

Especially as the claim is that they used the OpenAI API, which costs $ - which means that OpenAI was actually PAID for this access, versus the original content holders that were scraped. It's a TOS violation, nothing more.

Empowering Users, Not Overlords: Overcoming Digital Helplessness Disclosure: I’m on the board of Bluesky, so feel free to take as many grains of salt as you want in reading it, though all of it applies equally to other decentralized social media ecosys…

"For a generation now, too many people have grown accustomed to the idea that the internet is just four big companies and a few others on the periphery, rather than its original promise of something that empowered users to control their own experiences."

DeepSeek FAQ DeepSeek has completely upended people’s expectations for AI and competition with China. What is it, and why does it matter?

This is the best write-up I've found this morning on that question.

DeepSeek gets Silicon Valley talking | TechCrunch Since Chinese AI company DeepSeek released an open version of its reasoning model R1 at the beginning of this week, many in the tech industry have been

"R1 seemingly matches or beats OpenAI’s o1 model on certain AI benchmarks. And the company claims one of its models only cost $5.6 million to train, compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars that leading American companies pay to train theirs."

It’s not selective amnesia - it’s understanding how the media shapes public opinion. Stating that WaPo was all over P2025 because you wrote a few stories, while the front page was filled with ‘Biden’s old' and other petty stories day after day, sends a clear message. Yes, we were paying attention.

AWS and General Catalyst partner to speed up development of health-care AI tools General Catalyst's portfolio companies, starting with Aidoc and Commure, will use AWS' services to build new artificial intelligence solutions.

Through the collaboration, General Catalyst portfolio companies will use AWS’ services to build and roll out AI tools for health systems more quickly. #healthit

Mark Cuban thinking out loud about healthcare. Always interesting perspectives.