Cognitive Revolution weekly: AWS GPUs cost 3x, AI diagnoses rare diseases, US-China AI diplomacy
The Cognitive Revolution · youtube · 2026-10-01
Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan's AI:AM weekly episode, with guests Jeremie and Edouard Harris, Steve Hou, Joel Borgen, and Daniel McKinnon, covers:
- US-China AI diplomacy: realistic paths toward incident communication post Trump-Xi, and reading diplomatic green flags
- Compute economics: GPU rental pricing and hyperscaler premiums (AWS GPUs cost 3x), compute verification and compliance
- OpenAI Dev Day takeaways and model harnesses/evals
- AI-assisted fiction: how human editing guided the novel The Receipt Horizon
- Rare disease diagnosis: Gamow Labs' computational reanalysis of unresolved genomes surfaces previously missed variants; Nathan closes by weighing AI safety pacing against human costs of slower progress
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