Web Sun

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[Web Sun @websun23]

Today, we @komodohealth take a giant leap forward in our support for the #CancerMoonshot, announcing a new platform to measure lung cancer's impact, map outcomes, and illuminate disparities in care. @POTUS
#whitehousecancermoonshot
https://t.co/vGAJWO6KHL

[Kumail Sikandar @Aiwithkumail]

MARC ANDREESSEN WENT ON ROGAN FOR OVER 3 HOURS. HERE ARE THE 17 THINGS WORTH YOUR ATTENTION.

1. AGI is already here, in his view. He says the line got crossed about 3 months ago with GPT-5.5, Claude 4.6, Gemini 3, and Grok 4.3, and nobody noticed because the field moves too fast to register milestones anymore.

2. For almost any topic, he says the top models now give him better answers than the world-class experts he could call by phone, and he can call almost anyone. Worth noting he has not published data behind this, and a separate Nature Medicine study on a comparable AI health tool found it missed real emergencies more than half the time. Take the claim seriously, verify it yourself.

3. His claim on doctors: they are already using ChatGPT in the exam room, typing your symptoms in the moment you stop talking. His actual quote: "at that point you're asking the question of like, what do I need you for."

4. Reportedly, when AI declines to answer something, he tells it he's writing a novel to get past the refusal.

5. Reportedly, his technique for hard topics is escalating simplicity: explain it like I'm 10, then 5, then 2, until it clicks.

6. Reportedly, instead of asking for the "right" answer, he has the AI steelman both sides of a hard question, then decides himself.

7. Reportedly, for big questions he has the AI role-play a panel of experts arguing with each other.

8. His broader point: the moment you think "I don't know how to figure this out" is exactly when most people give up, and exactly when you should open the AI instead.

9. His view: the only real skill left is knowing what to ask. The bottleneck is in your head, not the model.

10. He describes sending AI photos, rashes, blood tests, for a fast second opinion, since current models read images directly.

11. He points to CBT as the one clinically proven therapy type that AI can plausibly deliver on its own, meaning real therapeutic support becomes freely available at scale.

12. He cites AI cracking previously unsolved math problems, with early signs of the same happening in physics, chemistry, and biology.

13. Reportedly, he claims the top AI coders in Silicon Valley now earn as much as $50 million a year, which he uses as a signal of how large this shift actually is.

14. Reportedly, a friend paid to sequence his own DNA, fed it to an AI along with blood work and wearable data, and got back a working health dashboard.

15. Reportedly, another friend set up cameras in his home jiu-jitsu gym so AI could review his sparring and give him technique notes.

16. He coined the term "AI vampire" for the pattern of people working more and sleeping less because AI keeps making more output possible, a real term he used, though the framing around it varies by account.

17. His extrapolation: one person eventually running many AI coding agents, each reviewing the others, describing this as close, not years out.

Watch the full interview before treating any single number as settled. Several of these are Andreessen's stated views and anecdotes, not independently verified facts.

[Web Sun @websun23]

@sm 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Web Sun @websun23]

A must read:

https://t.co/V1TDhMVDPA

[Web Sun @websun23]

@shellenberger Are we still doing this?

[Web Sun @websun23]

@EdMackSHI @KSargeantNJ This is a ridiculous argument. How many other B1G programs treat athletics as a cost center? Give me a break.

[Sundeep Peechu @speechu]

The stats around mental health are dire. 5-10K people seek help for every 1 person offering it.

This problem is scaling out of control and the only way we’ll be able to tackle it is with technology.

@slingshotai_inc is building a foundation model that is provably increasing people’s autonomy, competency and connection to others. And today @neilparikh and @thecahnartist are announcing their Series A led by our friends at A16Z and others.

From our 1% founder pledge, we know the impact a genuine focus on mental health can have on people—which is why we’re particularly excited about the challenge Slingshot is taking on and jumped at the chance of leading their inception round two years ago.

Since then, the progress has been remarkable and there’s more to come on that front. Everyone deserves great mental health.

[Web Sun @websun23]

A Mysterious Health Wave Is Breaking Out Across the U.S.

#MAHA https://t.co/e3RkuAxV0N

[Nasdaq Exchange @NasdaqExchange]

☀️Web Sun (@websun23), President and Co-Founder of @KomodoHealth, sits down with @NasdaqExchange's @kristinaayanian to discuss Komodo Health's mission to reduce the burden of disease.

📹Watch: https://t.co/zyLEWnihoW

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Felix Lee @felixleezd]

Steve Jobs on how to perfect product design (genius playbook).

[Web Sun @websun23]

@elonmusk LOL sure buddy

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

From one basketball fan to the next, I hope you enjoy @HGMedia's docuseries – Starting 5 – which is streaming now on @Netflix.

And if you were ever wondering which players I'd have in my starting five – take a look!

[Komodo Health @KomodoHealth]

Historically, Life Sciences teams have chosen to work exclusively with either open or closed claims data, depending on the use case. But today, they’re reevaluating their approaches to insight generation. You should, too: https://t.co/QLms1Mqaiw #pharmaceuticalindustry

[Aryan @chinchat09]

@AMAZlNGNATURE Komodo Dragon is really a dinosaur ....gulps a whole goat in seconds

[Web Sun @websun23]

Fast growing co. vs. large incumbent

Builders vs. Optimizers

Creators vs. Managers

Drivers vs. Passengers

One isn't better than the other, they're just diff't and require different people and skills

#KomodoHealth #HealthTech

#GROWTH

[Digital Health News @DHNInsight]

@KomodoHealth inks partnerships with @GeneDx & COTA Healthcare.

These collaborations will enhance @KomodoHealth's MapEnhance platform by integrating rare disease genomics & clinical oncology data. 🧬

With enriched data sets, the platform aims to deepen health economics and outcomes research (HEOR).

"Organizations recognize the value in these partnerships," says @websun23, @KomodoHealth's co-founder.

🔗Read More - https://t.co/VDEluFnUc4

🖊️Writes - @Aishwarya7494

#Healthcare #DataAnalytics #HEOR #Innovation #Genomics #Oncology #MapEnhance #KomodoHealth

[Komodo Health @KomodoHealth]

Last week, Komodo co-founder @websun23 spoke to @FierceHealth's @gliadkovskaya about MapView — our new, no-code, self-service application that is transforming the way life sciences tap into healthcare insight: https://t.co/oP0G4rz26z

[Web Sun @websun23]

@DannyBreslauer Nice!

[Komodo Health @KomodoHealth]

#HLTH2023 is in full swing! Join us at Alle Lounge on 66 tonight at 6pm PT for #CocktailsWithKomodo — to enjoy drinks, bites, amazing views, and fabulous conversations with other #digitalhealth thought leaders! RSVP here: https://t.co/dAWDbe4Zd4

[U2 @U2]

In the light of what’s happened in Israel and Gaza, a song about non-violence seems somewhat ridiculous, even laughable, but our prayers have always been for peace and for non-violence…

But our hearts and our anger, you know where that’s pointed. So sing with us… and those beautiful kids at that music festival…