Monday, June 29
Monday, June 29
Someone Pointed Claude Code at Their MRI. It Disagreed With Their Doctor.
A blogger fed 266 MB of raw shoulder MRI data into Claude Code running Opus 4.8 this weekend, and the AI's findings directly contradicted the clinic's diagnosis. The doctor said major tendon tear, begin treatment immediately. Claude said mild tendinosis, no tear. The setup was almost aggressively casual: a general-purpose coding tool, permission to install packages, and a one-line prompt about shoulder pain. A coding agent that happened to know how to handle DICOM files, with zero medical fine-tuning. The Hacker News thread is now past 318 comments and still climbing on a Sunday afternoon.
Someone Pointed Claude Code at Their MRI. It Disagreed With Their Doctor.
A blogger fed 266 MB of raw shoulder MRI data into Claude Code running Opus 4.8 this weekend, and the AI's findings directly contradicted the clinic's diagnosis. The doctor said major tendon tear, begin treatment immediately. Claude said mild tendinosis, no tear. The setup was almost aggressively casual: a general-purpose coding tool, permission to install packages, and a one-line prompt about shoulder pain. A coding agent that happened to know how to handle DICOM files, with zero medical fine-tuning. The Hacker News thread is now past 318 comments and still climbing on a Sunday afternoon.
China's AI Power Play Hits From Every Angle
The US-China tech rivalry has been simmering for years, but the temperature just spiked.
- The TOP500 supercomputer list has been the unofficial scoreboard of national compute power since 1993. Countries take these rankings personally, and the lead has changed hands more often than you'd expect.
- US export controls on advanced AI chips started in October 2022, specifically designed to maintain a compute advantage. The working assumption was that cutting off supply would slow things down.
- Model distillation (training a smaller model by feeding it outputs from a larger one) has been a standard ML technique for over a decade. It's now showing up in Senate testimony.
- Open-source licensing has quietly become a foreign policy instrument. Choosing MIT with no regional restrictions sends a message well beyond the codebase.
Keep all of that in your back pocket as you scroll.
The US-China tech rivalry has been simmering for years, but the temperature just spiked.
- The TOP500 supercomputer list has been the unofficial scoreboard of national compute power since 1993. Countries take these rankings personally, and the lead has changed hands more often than you'd expect.
- US export controls on advanced AI chips started in October 2022, specifically designed to maintain a compute advantage. The working assumption was that cutting off supply would slow things down.
- Model distillation (training a smaller model by feeding it outputs from a larger one) has been a standard ML technique for over a decade. It's now showing up in Senate testimony.
- Open-source licensing has quietly become a foreign policy instrument. Choosing MIT with no regional restrictions sends a message well beyond the codebase.
Keep all of that in your back pocket as you scroll.
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