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An old AI model just out-diagnosed two ER doctors at Harvard. Elon Musk rented his GPU supercluster to the company he publicly called 'Misanthropic'. And a startup is building AI data centres that literally float in the open ocean. Let's get into it.
In today's recap:
🏥 AI out-diagnosed two ER doctors at Harvard — using only text records.
🤝 Elon Musk deal with Anthropic.
🌊 Floating AI data centres.
Let's dive in 👇
✍️ Josh's Musings
One of the tools I built out at the tail end of last year finally got ready the other month, and I’m pushing it out beyond a few friends and churches a little wider.
It's called SermonSpread.
I built it primarily for Churches where social media and comms is an afterthought due to resources both financially and in know how.
The heart of it is this: most churches put real effort into Sunday, and then the message kind of just stops there. By Monday it's already fading. But it doesn't have to be a one-day thing. Don't let the content go to waste after Sunday.
Biblically, it's the same principle, steward what you already have, and multiply it.
SermonSpread takes your existing sermon and turns it into a week's worth of touchpoints for your community.
Social posts
Email recaps
Small Group Material
Caption Ideas
Content Ideas
Whatever fits your context.
No new content to write, just a way to let what you've already built keep doing its work through the week.
I've been doing versions of this internally for years, both when I worked on staff in a Church and serving Churches externally.
I built a proper version last year, gave it to a few friends at churches to test, and the response was really encouraging.
Now I want to see how it works in other church contexts.
I’m looking for a few more testers, but here's the thing: don't sign up through the website. Just hit reply and say you're interested. I'll personally add your email and load some credits so you can try it with your sermon from this week for FREE.
Would genuinely love your feedback. 👉 sermonspread.io and email here if you’d like to try it.
🙌 Stay Curious, Stay Conscious, Stay Wild
— Josh
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A Harvard study published in Science tested OpenAI's o1-preview — a model from 2024, not even the latest version — on 76 real emergency room cases. The AI out-diagnosed two attending physicians at every stage of care. Using only text. No imaging, no X-rays, no physical exam.
The Details:
The study ran across 76 real ER cases at three stages: triage, first physician contact, and ICU admission — the AI performed better at all three
At initial triage, the model got the right diagnosis 67.1% of the time vs. 55.3% and 50.0% for the two physicians
The physician reviewers grading the answers couldn't tell which diagnoses came from the AI and which came from the humans
In one case, the AI flagged a rare flesh-eating infection in a transplant patient 12–24 hours before the treating doctor caught it
Conscious Take:
Nobody's saying replace your doctor with ChatGPT, the researchers are clear this was text-only, no imaging, which is a real limitation. But this is still a meaningful signal.
3.5 billion people don't have reliable access to healthcare. If a 2024 model is already at this level, the honest question is how AI might serve those people, not as a replacement for doctors, but as a layer that helps more people get seen.
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Just a few months ago, Elon Musk was posting on X that Anthropic 'hates Western Civilization' and should be renamed 'Misanthropic'. This week, he rented them his entire 220,000-GPU Colossus 1 supercluster. Tech is genuinely wild sometimes.
The Details:
Anthropic signed a deal with SpaceX to lease Colossus 1 — a 300+ megawatt Memphis data centre with over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs coming online within a month
As a result, Claude Code's five-hour usage limits have doubled across Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, with peak-hour restrictions removed
Musk posted on X that SpaceX would rent compute to "AI companies taking the right steps to ensure it is good for humanity"
Anthropic is also reportedly committing to a $200 billion, 5GW compute deal with Google Cloud over the next five years
Conscious Take:
The 'enemy of my enemy is my friend' logic here is fascinating, helping Anthropic get more compute directly chips away at Musk's actual rival, OpenAI. It's a calculated move dressed up as an ideological stance.
But the bigger number here is 300 megawatts… Enough to power a small city, and that's just one facility for one AI company. The scale of what's being built to run these models is genuinely staggering.
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Locals are pushing back against data centres being built in their neighbourhoods — and honestly, fair enough. One Oregon startup's answer? Build them in the middle of the ocean. Panthalassa just raised $140M, backed by Peter Thiel, to do exactly that.
The Details:
Each 85-metre floating steel node converts ocean wave motion into electricity for onboard AI chips, cooled naturally by seawater — no engines, no grid power needed
The autonomous nodes can steer themselves to remote waters using only their hull shape and beam results back to land via Starlink
The raise values Panthalassa at nearly $1B; the first wave-powered compute nodes will deploy in the Pacific Ocean with commercial rollout in 2027
Peter Thiel told the Financial Times that "extraterrestrial solutions to compute are no longer science fiction" and called this "the ocean frontier"
Conscious Take:
Some creative engineering here. Communities don't want the noise, heat, and power draw of a giant data centre next door.
But the ocean solution opens its own questions: jurisdiction, environmental impact on marine ecosystems, who controls critical infrastructure in international waters.
📬 One quick ask...
If this email has been helpful, would you forward it to one person this week who might be interested?
Could be a friend in ministry, a creative who's curious about AI, someone trying to figure out how to build with Kingdom purpose.
I'd love to see this grow and reach more people. And honestly, personal recommendations mean way more than any algorithm.
Thanks for reading. Really.
"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters." — Colossians 3:23
Build with the tools. But build for the right reasons.
That's all for now
Stay conscious,
Josh
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