Atul Butte died yesterday. The world lost a giant. A big bear of a man. With a huge smile. With love for everyone. With energy that could power a room. I loved everything about Atul. I loved how he was always happy. I loved how excited he was about science and helping people.

BREAKING: Fareed Zakaria just gave a masterclass on everything that’s wrong with Donald Trump’s second term policies. This is incredible.

Celebration of the life of Atul Butte. Join colleagues from three universities to celebrate him at 10 am PST on Saturday.

For my good friend Atul Butte The Spark Ideas lit the room, he spoke, and silence listened. Fire danced in his eyes. he filled the air and hearts then left them brighter. Even data danced when he looked at it with joy Whispers in the code, echoes in the minds he moved

If you were impacted by Atul Butte personally or professionally, we hope you will take a moment to share a memory and photo at kudoboard.com/boards/OMydGod…. These will be shown at the celebration of life this Saturday ⤵️

Celebration of Life Honoring Dr. Atul Butte, Live Stream lnkd.in/gskkmUFY Saturday, June 21, 2025 10 AM – 12 PM (PT), Celebration of Life 12 – 1 PM, Light lunch and refreshments Paul Berg Hall, Li Ka Shing Center, Stanford

Sam Altman on the illusion of hard work

What's the path forward for AI in the cancer clinic? Our NEJM AI review explored this question. A new paper in Nature Cancer from Jakob Nikolas Kather's team now provides a compelling example with a "tool-using" AI agent. open.substack.com/pub/profelemen…

Call For Papers 📣 JMIR Human Factors invites submissions for a theme issue on Human Factors in Health Care: Education, Management, and Knowledge Translation. Focus: education, digital skills, usability, knowledge translation & more. ℹ️ humanfactors.jmir.org/announcements/…

High-Risk, High-Reward Research (HRHR) | NIH Common Fund commonfund.nih.gov/highrisk

Less than 89 hours ago, Claude Code unlocked sub agents. Minds are blown. And people are already building with their own agentic AI dev team. 10 wild examples:

7-Layers of #AI Model Architecture by Dr. Khulood Almani | د.خلود المانع #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepLearning #ML #Technology cc: Andrej Karpathy Paula Piccard Bernard Marr

From context engineering to embeddings, chunking might be the most underrated part of the pipeline. It has more of an impact on performance than most people think 👀 Chunking is the pre-processing step of splitting texts into smaller pieces - the "chunks" that become the

The new special issue Science Magazine features Immunity with 4 outstanding review papers, 5★ science.org/toc/science/cu… Our immune system over the lifespan, sex differences, influence on physiology, and host antiviral defenses

Visual Explanation of How LLMs Work

𝑳𝑳𝑴𝒔 can really 𝑺𝒆𝒍𝒇-𝑬𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆, 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝑯𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑫𝒂𝒕𝒂! -- One LLM, two roles: Challenger creates tasks, Solver answers them. -- No data, no labels, just a base model that learns and improves itself! We name it 𝑹-𝒛𝒆𝒓𝒐: arxiv.org/abs/2508.05004

New findings in Science deepen our understanding of the role of membrane contact sites in cell biology and reactive oxygen species regulation. 📄: scim.ag/4mgAUuv #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/46dmyX0

As I wrote in SUPER AGERS, the immune system is the key to modulating our aging process and the opportunity to extend healthspan. Today Nature Aging 7 new articles, summarized here, that reinforce its central role nature.com/articles/s4358…

AI is challenging the paradigm of "undruggable" cancer targets. Our new Nature Biotechnology comment outlines how AI-driven approaches, from modeling protein complexes to designing novel biologics, can unlock these intractable proteins nature.com/articles/s4158…