Abdoulaye Diack

The largest randomized trial of medical A.I.
—Over 100,000 women in Sweden
—radiologist + AI vs 2 radiologists, in follow-up
—AI added led to 29% more cancer detected, 44% reduced workload, and
—Less cancer dx in subsequent 2 years, and, when found, less aggressive
thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"Your human..."

A hackathon for vibecoders

Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome - Nature AlphaGenome, a deep learning model that inputs 1-Mb DNA sequence to predict functional genomic tracks at single-base resolution across diverse modalities, outperforms existing models in variant effect...

I had intended to post something about this new Google DeepMind paper that appeared yesterday in Nature, but the press coverage has added to what there is to say. So this is a long 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Finally found a good use of my twitter archive, it's all ingested by my agent now

🇨🇳 Chinese man runs smart farm with one finger, one toe

Quadriplegic and confined to a medicalised portable cabin in the Chinese countryside, 36-year-old Li Xia can only move one finger and one toe, which he uses to manage a high-tech farm.

I have a personalized agent running in my Android terminal app that sends me decent Bluesky digests via Telegram

This is Callie. She is trained to accurately detect bowel cancer in order to provide rapid diagnoses through non-invasive testing. Some might call it lab work, but Callie is actually a sprocker spaniel. 14/10 incredible job, Callie (IG: medicaldetectiondogs)

Heads up! 🚨 Mark your calendar for next week! 🚨

More games to be released on the @kaggle.com Game Arena!!! 🎉🙌

See how foundations models perform at poker ♣️♥️♠️♦️ and werewolf 👫🐺!! And more Chess results too! 🧠♟️

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New post on how to do real-time diffuse global illumination using surfels and #WebGPU: juretriglav.si/surfel-based... #threejs

1 year, half a billion flashes, and storms revealed like never before. Our Lightning Imager is transforming how meteorologists can now track & forecast lightning from space. 🌩️

In our latest article, EUMETSAT’s Sven-Erik Enno reflects on the LI’s impacts after its first full year: bit.ly/4alc9tJ

Tailor Gemini CLI to your workflow with hooks- Google Developers Blog Introducing Gemini CLI hooks (v0.26.0+). Control and customize the agentic loop to inject context, enforce security policies, and automate tasks with custom scripts.

A project is a garden, and hooks are the tools we use to tend it.

With Gemini CLI hooks, you can inject your own project context without touching the source code.
Let's grow open source technology together.

What context does your project garden need most?
developers.googleblog.com/tailor-gemin...

Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome - Nature AlphaGenome, a deep learning model that inputs 1-Mb DNA sequence to predict functional genomic tracks at single-base resolution across diverse modalities, outperforms existing models in variant effect...

We're testing AlphaGenome.

It's a very valuable step forward towards the goal of identifying functional non-coding variants (FNCVs) causing human diseases.

Congrats to @avsecz.bsky.social and the team for this landmark publication.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Introducing Theorizer: Turning thousands of papers into scientific laws 📚➡️📜

Most automated discovery systems focus on experimentation. Theorizer tackles the other half of science: theory building—compressing scattered findings into structured, testable claims. 🧵

Today @nature.com, it's #AlphaGenome, to decipher and determine functionality of the regulatory (very challenging) variants in our genome.
Another big step of AI for advancing life science
nature.com/articles/s41...

Google Floodhub showing flooding predictions in Mozambique

Floods in Mozambique. The blue zones on this map shows predictions of the flood impact.

IFRC is accepting donations: donate.redcrossredcrescent.org/ifrc/mozambi...
sites.research.google/floods/l/-24...

People have been looking at "AI & brains" through the lens of LLMs/transformers. But what latent diffusion? (think text-to-image/video platforms such as Midjourney).

**Class conditioned latent diffusion and semantically cued hippocampus share a remarkably similar computational architecture...**

Africa is leapfrogging into a micro-EV revolution right now, the surprising thing is how fast it happened.

Interesting post about hiring in 2026 which applies to other fields besides research. In summary Depth > Breadth

The technical assessment is just a conversation starter. The real interview is about how you think.

We look for: → Hypothesis-driven reasoning → Clear communication → Honest acknowledgment of limitations → Genuine curiosity

I founded Sakana AI after my time at Google, so it is incredibly meaningful to be able to partner with them now. It feels like a special connection to be working together again to advance the AI ecosystem in Japan.

sakana.ai/google#en

Withdrawal of the United States from the WHO — How President Trump Is Weakening Public Health | NEJM Severing the long-standing ties and scientific collaborations between the United States and the WHO and slashing U.S. financial support will have catastrophic effects on both domestic and global he...

We wrote this piece i.e @gavinyamey.bsky.social and I, one year ago. Today the US is formally out of the WHO. Domestic public health is severely weakened as is global public health. A massive own goal that leaves us all less safe.
www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Same here please!

A world map visualization of 68 battery factories with Chinese company involvement. The headline of the map is China's Global Battery Empire.

NEW: I tracked all Chinese lithium battery factories announced or built in the past decade 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 China's borders. The truth is, companies like CATL & BYD are so technologically advanced that there's little international competition. European and Asian countries are welcoming them with open arms.

Introducing HiRO-ACE: an AI framework that makes highly detailed climate simulations dramatically more accessible. It generates decades of high-resolution precipitation data for any region in a day on a single GPU—no supercomputing cluster required. 🧵

I used Gemini-CLI to build an offline translation tool using TranslateGemma + Gemma 3 to extract & translate text from images. Excited about the African Languages support!

Framework: HF Transformers
Interface: Gradio
Runtime: Python / PyTorch

Could be worse with an unstable genius

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Current situation and predictions for Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa

sites.research.google/floods/l/-23...

(Check official sources for floods information)

Salmon Run - A Bill Williams Masterpiece A technical deep-dive into Bill Williams' 1982 Atari 800 game, exploring how sound and gameplay were ingeniously intertwined. Full disassembly and analysis.

I used Claude Code to isolate the water sound from Salmon Run for Atari 800. I modded it to sound like rain, fed it into a twin-POKEY emulator and slept w/8-bit stereo rain sounds last night. Soothing!

The rain app isn't ready yet, but I have a disassembly of the game here: bxfoundry.com/salmonrun/