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- Watchdog slams Health NZ and portal provider over dark web data leak | Stuff
“My inquiry has found that there were several problems with how patient information was managed,” Source: Watchdog slams Health NZ and portal provider over dark web data leak | Stuff
- Anthropic will get compute capacity from Elon Musk's SpaceX
Anthropic said Wednesday it has struck a deal to gain access to compute capacity from Elon Musk's SpaceX, a move that could help the company deal with surging demand. Source: Anthropic will get compute capacity from Elon Musk's SpaceX
I wonder what "enough" looks like when it comes to compute in the AI space. It’s interesting that Anthropic is using all the capacity and not Musk’s own xAI.
- How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
Cloudflare recreating Next.js with a team of two and AI tooling in a week is an impressive feat in itself, but the fact that by some metrics the remake is actually better is really something.
The process started with a plan. I spent a couple of hours going back and forth with Claude in OpenCode to define the architecture: what to build, in what order, which abstractions to use. That plan became the north star. Source: How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
The process of agentic delivery is a skill of its own. The description given here aligns with my own experiences.
Side note: I've been trying OpenCode (mentioned in this article) on a private project recently and found it quite good. Using DeepSeek V4 agents, I've found it to be a good, cheap alternative to the ever-increasing costs of the larger players.
- It’s a busy time for sci-fi, but don’t miss Aphelion | The Verge
The new adventure game is a nice counterpoint to the recent barrage of blockbusters. Source: It’s a busy time for sci-fi, but don’t miss Aphelion | The Verge
I don't game as much as I used to, but when I do, I tend to play games like this. I haven't given it a go yet, but I'm hoping it's akin to The Invincible.
- "Spider-Noir" - Authentic Black & White Trailer | Prime Video - YouTube
Next month, the web starts to unravel. Watch the new trailer for “Spider-Noir” – a live-action series starring Nicolas Cage – arriving in both Authentic Black & White and True-Hue Full Color May 27 on Prime. Source: "Spider-Noir" - Authentic Black & White Trailer | Prime Video - YouTube
Interesting this is a TV series and not a movie, baffling there's a colour option?!
- Introducing GPT-Rosalind for life sciences research | OpenAI
On average, it takes roughly 10 to 15 years to go from target discovery to regulatory approval for a new drug in the United States. Gains made at the earliest stages of discovery compound downstream in better target selection, stronger biological hypotheses and higher-quality experiments. Progress in the life sciences is constrained not only by the difficulty of the underlying science, but by the complexity of the research workflows themselves. Scientists must work across large volumes of literature, specialized databases, experimental data, and evolving hypotheses in order to generate and evaluate new ideas. These workflows are often time-intensive, fragmented, and difficult to scale. We believe advanced AI systems can help researchers move through these workflows faster—not just by making existing work more efficient, but by helping scientists explore more possibilities, surface connections that might otherwise be missed, and arrive at better hypotheses sooner. By supporting evidence synthesis, hypothesis generation, experimental planning, and other multi-step research tasks, this model is designed to help researchers accelerate the early stages of discovery. Over time, these systems could help life sciences organizations discover breakthroughs that wouldn’t otherwise be possible, with a much higher rate of success. Source: Introducing GPT-Rosalind for life sciences research | OpenAI
There are plenty of things to be concerned about in the world of AI, but there's also a lot of hope. For people like me, advances like this one could be life-changing.
As much as I'm not a fan of large-scale data leaks, I hope the upshot of this is some real focus from central government on our health system.
Obviously, I've had a fair bit of experience with this stuff in recent years, and I would say the word "system" is a bit of a misnomer in this context.
Health needs investment, and that "system" is where I think the focus should be. It's certainly where I think we may be bleeding the most (you're welcome), at least from a bang-for-buck perspective, but quite likely from a health outcome perspective too.