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Grocery prices in the U.S. soared faster in April than any month in nearly four years, driving up the cost of everything from frankfurters to tomatoes to cupcakes, according to government data. abcnews.link/xPaGhxl
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When I was a student at UT, I registered voters for Obama’s 2008 campaign — a campaign of hope.
President Obama just showed up at UT and told young Texans: “Now you have the chance to join a campaign of hope.”
Sign up today: jamestalarico.com/join
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Youtube comments have spoken: the robot names are Bob, Frank, and Gary
P.S. only 23min away from our 8 hour goal !!!
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there’s no clearer sign that ai intelligence is rapidly increasing each month and it’s only going to get quicker from here.
they’ll release another paper next month talking about how their timelines are shrinking yet again.
we’re stepping into rsi and no one knows what it looks like.
AI Security Institute@AISecurityInst
Our evaluations show that frontier AI's cyber capabilities are advancing quickly. The length of cyber tasks frontier models can complete has been doubling every few months, and this rate has become faster over time, with recent models exceeding our previous trends. 🧵
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Recursive Superintelligence launches with $650M in funding at a $4.6B valuation. They aim to create safe, eternally self-improving AI.
This is *the* neolab to watch. It's an all-star lineup.
Our future is so bright.
Recursive@Recursive_SI
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Demis Hassabis says he can cure every disease in 10 years.
Most people roll their eyes when they hear this, but I don't.
Demis is the guy who just won the Nobel Prize for solving protein folding with AI (a problem biologists had been stuck on for 50 years).
But that was just one milestone in his much grander plan.
In 2010, he founded DeepMind with a 2-part mission: "solve intelligence, then use it to solve everything else."
Step 1: make AI good enough to do real science.
Step 2: point that AI at humanity's biggest problems.
Step one was AlphaFold.
He used AI to figure out the 3D shape of every protein in nature (which is basically what every drug attaches to).
Demis said it would have taken "a billion years of PhD time" to do by hand.
Step two is curing all disease.
And as of today, step two is fully funded.
Isomorphic Labs (his AI drug discovery company inside Google) just raised $2.1B led by Thrive Capital.
Here's where the money goes and what Demis thinks happens next:
> Drug discovery currently takes 5-10 years and costs billions per drug. That math is why most diseases don't have good treatments today.
> AI fixes the math. Their drug design engine compresses development from years to months. Maybe weeks.
> Isomorphic's first AI-designed cancer drug enters human trials this year.
> Their pipeline expands beyond the current 17 programs across cancer, immune diseases, and heart disease into more health domains.
> The endgame is personalized medicine: drugs designed overnight for your specific biology and your specific disease.
That last one is the whole point.
Today's drugs are mass-produced for an "average" patient who doesn't really exist.
So most existing treatments work inconsistently from person to person, and most rare diseases never get a treatment at all (no market = no drug).
When drug design gets fast and cheap, that whole calculus flips.
Cancer variants get drugs designed for that specific variant, rare diseases get treatments because economics stop mattering, and drug-resistant infections get new drugs faster than they can evolve.
That's what curing every disease actually looks like.
Now imagine what your life looks like in 2036.
A doctor draws your blood, sequences your genome, sends your disease profile to an AI.
By morning the AI has designed a custom drug for your specific biology.
Side effects, dosage, drug interactions all worked out before you take the first pill.
You and your kids never see a cancer ward.
That's what $2.1B is buying today.
Demis was right about AlphaFold.
If you consider the possibility that he's right again, every disease alive today is on borrowed time.
Demis Hassabis@demishassabis
I’ve always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human health. That work started with AlphaFold, and now at @IsomorphicLabs with the mission to reimagine drug discovery and one day solve all disease! We are turbocharging that goal with $2.1B in new funding.
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Former President Barack Obama visited an Austin-based restaurant alongside James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa. statesman.com/news/politics/…
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JUST IN: Obama campaigns for James Talarico in Texas, as Democrats eye their first Texas Senate win since 1988.
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@ErikTelford @USATODAY We sure do. Most people i know here in Texas like Obama
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Former President Barack Obama is backing Texas Democrat James Talarico in his bid for a U.S. Senate seat after being spotted in an Austin taco shop. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
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