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Rivian R2s are pretty sweet!

Excellent b-day dinner at Katsuya Ko! The crab handrolls and crispy rice are phenomenal!

Heading in for day 2 of the workshop at UCSD

AI job interview questions have jumped from 11.6% to 42.6% over three years. Students are noticing, with nearly a third using AI 11+ times a week. Despite their rapid adoption, nearly half of students still report concerns about academic integrity and AI dependence.

Exclusive: College students want ethical AIThe share of American University business students regularly using AI has increased from 6.2% to 29% over the past three years.www.axios.com

"Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." Take a few minutes to read the classic Bradbury short story: There Will Come Soft Rains.

We are going to be one of these datapoints. We installed solar about 2 years ago, and we are expanding our array this month in order to prepare for a full EV as our next car. A complete Cobra Effect of an administration.

Control over open-source AI is fracturing Silicon Valley. The administration weighed blacklisting Chinese models like Kimi, but retreated after intense pushback. Proprietary labs cite security risks, while hardware vendors argue open weights drive innovation.

White House Whipsaws Silicon Valley (and Itself) Over A.I. Rules (Gift Article)The Trump administration has struggled over how to approach “open source” models, which are freely available to download and favored by Chinese companies.www.nytimes.com

It might be silly, but it was a nice touch and it made me smile.

They suspect the Spokane fires were due to arson! That’s beyond heartbreaking.

Authorities arrest an arson suspect in connection with wildfires in SpokaneThe suspect was arrested in connection with one of three wildfires in Spokane, Wash., that have destroyed hundreds of homes and displaced nearly a quarter of the city's residents.www.npr.org

Setting up at UCSD's Supercomputer Center for the National Data Platform Education Hub Content Development Workshop. I'll be here for the next three days building some content for my classes.

Endorsed, you should totally hire @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz!

Today's the day! It is the first day of my new class, Intro to AI for Clinical Students. It is the first product based off my AI-PACE framework paper we published this summer, and I can't wait to see how it lands with students! #MedSky #MedAI

Clinical-grade cancer detection usually requires highly curated training. PRISM2 does it out-of-the-box. Trained on 2.3M slide images and 14M clinical QA pairs, it answers direct diagnostic queries on new tissue samples with specialist-level accuracy. #MedSky #MedAI

End-to-end multimodal pathology foundation model with clinical dialogue - Nature MedicineTrained on 2.3 million whole-slide images and 14 million clinical question−answer pairs, the multimodal foundation model PRISM2 matched clinical-grade cancer detection performance without…www.nature.com

Google got the message

For a Day, Google Made It Easy to Spoof Satellite Imagery (Gift Article)A new Google Earth tool allowed the creation of A.I. deepfake maps. The tech giant quickly pulled it back after a backlash and concerns about disinformation risks.www.nytimes.com

🧪 Medical professionals are losing the attention war on YouTube. In a 3,958-video sample, independent creators produced the lowest quality content but captured the highest viewership using exaggeration. #MedSky

The credibility paradox: clickbait, engagement, and information quality in YouTube’s medical ecosystem - npj Digital Medicinenpj Digital Medicine - The credibility paradox: clickbait, engagement, and information quality in YouTube’s medical ecosystemwww.nature.com

I think we will see more of this to come: creators who touch the third rail with their audience on AI use and get burned as a result. As the cost subsidization of AI models continues to scale back, I believe more people might be at risk of this than they expect.

YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’ | TechCrunchGreen offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."techcrunch.com

I understand ghosting as a concept, and can see how it may be necessary to escape toxic or abusive relationships; but I was gobsmacked by the 84% stat of millennials and Gen Z who experienced ghosting themselves. WAY more rampant than I expected.

People Are Ghosting Long-Term Partners. Some Don’t Regret ItThe communication-free form of breaking up has become ubiquitous. “I no longer had to bear her energy,” a man who ghosted his partner of four years tells WIRED.www.wired.com

Tagging for #MedSky 🛟

What’s up San Diego!

🧪 The Senate's stopgap funding bill temporarily blocks the White House plan to put political appointees in charge of federal grants. It will push this past the midterms for now. This is a big victory! #AcademicSky