Body Scanners, Banned Models, and DeepMind's Space Game Obsession

TL;DR

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  Midjourney is building a body-scanner spa business, not just image models: David Holz unveiled a full-body ultrasound system built with Butterfly Network chips, said it is one of eight new Midjourney products, and talked about 50,000 machines plus roughly $40 billion to scale the vision.

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  The scanner pitch is 'MRI-like' convenience, not an MRI replacement: The demo showed a person lowered into water for a one-minute scan that can generate terabytes of data, but Ashley and Kylie stress that critics are right that ultrasound will not replace MRIs, CTs, or procedures like colonoscopies.

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  Anthropic's Fable ban looks like a precedent-setting power move: Ashley argues the government rushed the ban over jailbreak concerns, gave Anthropic about 90 minutes to respond, and then leaked aggressively to Axios and Politico, creating a dangerous model for punishing labs that do not align with federal preferences.

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  DeepMind's EVE Online deal is Demis Hassabis going back to his original AI thesis: By studying CCP Games, now Feneris, and its 20-year single-universe space economy offline, DeepMind gets a rich simulated world to test world models instead of relying only on brute-force scaling of LLMs.

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  OpenAI hiring Noam Shazeer is a serious architecture signal: The Transformer co-author and Character.AI founder leaving Google for OpenAI suggests the company wants fresh model ideas, not just more scale, especially after all the noise about scaling hitting a wall.

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  Snap's new AR glasses landed as an aesthetic and market mismatch: Kylie calls the $2,200 Specs huge and school-bully bait, while Ashley says glasses still have promise for calls and capture, just not in the form Evan Spiegel showed on CNBC.