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[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. Something just happened today that I genuinely did not see coming — and it could change the future of preventive medicine more than anything I've written about on this platform.
Midjourney — the AI company that became famous for generating images from text prompts — just announced a medical hardware division and unveiled a working prototype of a full-body scanner unlike anything that's ever existed.
It's called the Midjourney Scanner. And it works like this.
You step into a shallow pool of water. You stand on a platform that slowly descends — about two inches per second — through a ring containing roughly half a million tiny ultrasonic transducers, each the size of a grain of sand. Every one of them acts as both a speaker and a microphone, sending ultrasonic waves through your body from every angle and recording what comes back.
60 seconds later, you step out. The scan is done.
No radiation. No magnets. No claustrophobia. No IV contrast. Just sound, water, and an almost incomprehensible amount of computing power — roughly 2 petaflops processing 17 gigabytes per second of raw acoustic data — reconstructing a 3D map of your entire internal anatomy down to half a millimeter resolution.
Organs. Tissues. Blood vessels. Bones. Muscle. Fat distribution. All segmented by AI in real time.
As a cardiologist who has spent months writing about how the standard screening playbook misses the majority of future heart attacks — this is the technology I've been waiting for without knowing it existed.
Here's why this matters for the future of your heart.
Right now, getting a detailed look inside your cardiovascular system requires either a CT scan (radiation), an MRI (magnets, claustrophobia, 45-60 minutes, $1,000+), or a coronary CT angiogram (radiation, IV contrast, limited availability). These are powerful tools. I order them regularly and they save lives.
But they're reactive. You get them when something is already suspected. They're expensive. They're uncomfortable. And for most people, they happen once — maybe twice — in a lifetime.
Imagine instead: a 60-second scan with no radiation that you could repeat monthly or quarterly. Tracking cardiac structure over time. Watching body composition shift. Detecting changes in organ size, fluid distribution, or vascular architecture before symptoms ever develop. Building a longitudinal dataset of YOUR body that AI can analyze for patterns no single snapshot would reveal.
That's what Midjourney is building toward.
The company plans 50,000 scanners worldwide over six years, with capacity for a billion scans per month. The first location — the "Midjourney Spa" in San Francisco — opens at the end of 2027 with 10 scanners alongside saunas, cold plunges, and a gym. The scan costs a few dollars. The experience is designed to feel like wellness, not medicine.
The technology is built on Butterfly Network's ultrasound-on-chip platform — 40 modules per scanner — combined with Midjourney's own AI segmentation and reconstruction stack. David Holz, the founder, claims the system aims for image quality comparable to MRI in many aspects but at nearly 100x the speed with zero radiation.
Now the caveats — because I'm a physician and the caveats matter enormously.
This is a Gen 1 prototype. About a dozen people have been scanned so far. Current scan time is actually closer to 20 minutes, not 60 seconds — the system is bottlenecked by bandwidth and reconstruction algorithms. The 60-second target is aspirational for future hardware generations.
It is not FDA-cleared for diagnostic use. Midjourney is starting with body composition maps — a category below diagnostic imaging in the regulatory hierarchy. The path from "beautiful 3D body scans" to "clinically validated diagnostic tool that your cardiologist can act on" runs through years of clinical trials, comparative studies against MRI and CT gold standards, and FDA review.
No independent clinical validation has been published. The imaging claims come from Midjourney's own demonstrations. Comparative data against established modalities does not yet exist.
And the privacy implications of full-body internal scans at planetary scale — a billion scans per month — is a conversation that hasn't even started yet.
So I want to be precise. This is not ready for clinical medicine today. It may not be ready for years. Many ambitious medical hardware projects have failed in the gap between prototype and product.
But.
The fact that a working prototype exists — producing real segmented 3D anatomy from sound waves and compute alone — means the physics works. The engineering works. The question is no longer "is this possible" but "how fast can it be validated and scaled."
And if it is validated — if the resolution holds up against MRI, if the AI segmentation proves reliable, if the regulatory path clears — then what we're looking at is the most significant new imaging modality in 50 years.
For my entire career, preventive cardiology has been limited by the fact that seeing inside the body is expensive, slow, uncomfortable, and infrequent. We catch disease late because we image rarely. We image rarely because imaging is hard.
A 60-second, no-radiation, spa-based full-body scan that costs a few dollars would demolish every one of those barriers.
I've written about AI detecting inflamed arteries. About gene editing curing cholesterol. About GLP-1 drugs rewriting metabolic medicine. About cellular reprogramming reversing aging.
This is the missing piece: the ability to see inside every human body, routinely, safely, and affordably — so all of those interventions can be deployed before the disease arrives instead of after.
The company that taught AI to generate images from imagination just built a machine that generates images from the human body.
The future of medicine showed up today from the last place anyone expected.

[Sebastian Caliri @SebastianCaliri]

I just tested my hand in a mini version of this scanner. Images that are higher quality than MRI, whole body captured in <1 minute, virtually free to run. This is going to change medicine.

Things get even crazier when you consider the possibility of using the same tank to focus ultrasound to ablate tissue, stimulate nerves, etc.

The FDA is not in the slightest ready for this. People will also complain about incidental findings but they are wrong and don’t understand how quickly software can improve and how inexpensive a time series of scans will be to generate.

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[Míriam González @miriamgonp]

@midjourney Scientist + metastatic breast cancer patient here — my life runs on imaging. Honest question, not a gotcha: for known mets, what's your sensitivity for sub-cm lesions and bone/lung, where ultrasound has always struggled? Any peer-reviewed data or trial yet? ❤️

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

We’re about to spend $300,000,000,000 rebuilding Iran after spending $80,000,000,000 destroying it, while telling Americans on Medicaid to take a hike.

America First.

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

I was wrong

I've been saying for months that open source AI models are 6 months behind frontier

They caught up. GLM 5.2 is as good as Opus 4.8

This changes everything. If you run GLM 5.2 locally no government can take it away. You become sovereign

And even if you run through APIs, its a fraction of the cost

The battlefield is different now. If open source is as good as frontier, and people have cheaper alternatives, governments can't be as quick to regulate. It will destroy the frontier AI labs

All of this is such a massive win for the people

If you are not paying attention to local models yet, you are making a tremendous mistake

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

The Iran war seems to be ending, along with our uncritical support for Israel, and not a moment too soon. No wonder the neocons are hysterical.

[Z.ai @Zai_org]

Introducing GLM-5.2: Frontier Intelligence, Open Weights

- Significant improvements in coding and agentic tasks
- Strong long-horizon capabilities with a 1M context window
- Two levels of reasoning effort: GLM-5.2 (max) pushes the limits, while GLM-5.2 (high) strikes a strong balance between performance and token efficiency
- MIT-licensed open weights
- Same API pricing as GLM-5.1

Tech Blog: https://t.co/LAsxUdN0JZ
Weights: https://t.co/g0A1C4UWx4
API: https://t.co/Kc3E22cbN7
Coding Plan: https://t.co/Nk8Y98HNhU
Chat: https://t.co/WCqWT0qCQb

[Carlos Santana @DotCSV]

De todo el hardware que Midjourney podía haber presentado creo que no estaba en las quinielas de nadie el de un dispositivo de imagen médica y una nueva divisón "Midjourney Medical", pero oye bienvenido sea!

https://t.co/fttYT7hGtZ

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Si no firmáramos este acuerdo con Irán, nos hubiéramos quedado sin petróleo, perdíamos 600 o 700 millones por día, nos quedábamos sin reservas en 4 semanas. Hemos sido muy duro con lo nuclear, está bien que Irán tenga energía nuclear para electricidad".

Trump firmó su rendición con Irán, humillándose públicamente admitiendo que estaban desangrándose en su guerra contra el pueblo iraní, perdiendo hasta 700 millones diarios y quedándose sin reservas de petroleo... incluso han terminado tragando con que Irán tenga energía nuclear y pagándole 300.000 millones por los daños.

Esta es la mayor humillación a EEUU desde Vietnam, la realidad es que esperaban que Irán cayese en 3 dias... ahora van a tener que retirar sus soldados de toda la región en las bases que rodean a Irán y pagar por sus crímenes.

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

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[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Midjourney announces the world’s first full-body ultrasound CT scanner

• Goal is to bring affordable full-body imaging to everyone on Earth

• Users are submerged in water during the scan

• Creates detailed 3D body maps in under a minute

• Can map more than 25 organs and anatomical structures in detail

• No radiation is used

• Working with the FDA for approvals on diagnostic use

• Plans to bring the tech to market by the end of 2027

(via @midjourney)

[Miguel Ángel Durán @midudev]

¡Última hora en la IA! ¡SpaceX compra Cursor!
Acuerdo por 60.000 millones de dólares.
La guerra por programar con IA acaba de subir de nivel.

[Miguel Ángel Durán @midudev]

Este repositorio de GitHub lo está explotando.
¿Por qué? Simula algo que los agentes de IA hacen mal:
Criterio de senior.

90% menos código, 75% menos coste y 6x más rápido.
Funciona con Claude Code, Codex, Cursor y más.

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[Lorenzo Ramírez @lorenzoramirez]

Aquí lo tienen: otro caballo de Troya para el ID Digital

[Southampton Times @sotontimes]

🔺Telegram founder Pavel Durov compares the lack of panic during the sinking of the Titanic with the current lack of awareness in Europe as citizens freedoms are stripped away: “I came here today to tell you-that we find ourselves in a similar predicament. In a similar situation. Our ship. Has already hit the iceberg. We have already started to sink. Without even realizing it. And I'm talking about the ship of our personal freedoms”

Continuing giving examples of his personal experiences of fraud and corruption with Russia, the EU and France. Before moving onto Keir Starmer’s UK clampdown on social media:

“Thousands of people are getting arrested every year in the United Kingdom for social media posts. You say somethingpolitically incorrect online, you may end up being fined or spend some time in prison in Germany”

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Nunca dejes que las burlas de los demás detengan tus metas.

Cuando propuse que el Hospital Rosales, que en ese momento era el peor hospital del país, se convirtiera en el mejor de Centroamérica, hasta mis propios ministros se rieron.

Imaginen lo que decían la oposición y los incrédulos.

Pero yo sabía que, con esfuerzo, disciplina y sin mirar hacia atrás ni hacia los lados, se podía lograr.

Y lo logramos.

Hoy, el Hospital Rosales es el mejor hospital de Centroamérica, público o privado. Cuenta con todas las especialidades médicas, el equipamiento más avanzado del mundo, 200 especialistas extranjeros y 3,000 salvadoreños listos para atender cualquier enfermedad de forma gratuita.

El siguiente paso es que más hospitales de nuestro país alcancen ese nivel.

Pronto tendremos otra sorpresa.

Primero Dios.