Cognitive Revolution: AWS GPU rentals cost 3x, AI finds missed rare-disease variants
The Cognitive Revolution · rss · 2026-10-01
Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan host this week's AI:AM with Jeremie and Edouard Harris, Steve Hou, Joel Borgen, and Daniel McKinnon. Topics: realistic paths to US-China AI incident communication and verifying compute compliance; what 3x AWS GPU rental premiums reveal about compute economics; OpenAI Dev Day takeaways; human editing in the AI-co-written novel The Receipt Horizon; how Gamow Labs reanalyzes unresolved genomes with AI to find previously missed rare-disease variants; and the human cost of pacing AI progress for families awaiting medical answers.
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