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Thank you, Yusuf. Your voice has always counted in both the West and East in ways that few others can match. I believe I speak for countless millions who are grateful for your poetic and powerful comments about freeing Imran Khan from this terrible injustice of democracy. As I’ve said from the first time I visited Pakistan in 1994, as goes Pakistan, so goes the world. IK did much in his brief time in power to improve the lives of the Pakistani people. Also, in my own personal work during Covid, Pakistan was the only country in the world that openly allowed its information on Covid to be shared with the rest of the world. It was Pakistan that first discovered that the Chinese Covid vaccines were useless against the Omicron variant. Without that information and advice to many countries to be aware of that information and protect themselves in other ways, many millions of people would have died around the world, unnecessarily. The world owes Imran Khan a debt, not apathy.

100% right, Richard. Imran Khan has been deposed, shot by a would be assassin, deprived of his rights, and stuck in solitary confinement on invented charges despite orders from the Supreme Court of Pakistan to free him. It is unconscionable that a democracy can act this way while the world stands idly by.

Thanks @jeffskoll , your Oscar winning films like “ Contagion” “ An inconvenient Truth “ Charlie Wilson’s war “ “ Good night Good luck “ are among @ImranKhanPTI favourites. His brutal solitary confinement by the military establishment is illegal, unethical and a danger to his life and Pakistan’s democracy. Thanks for raising your important voice in this critical time.

I just spent several days with @richardbranson and @sufisal (Dr. Salman Ahmed) discussing the dangerous detention of former PM @ImranKhanPTI in Pakistan. As a physician and friend of Pakistan, I have watched with pain and sadness at his deterioriting health status while a prisoner in round the clock solitary confinement. To make it worse, he has not been allowed reasonable visits from his own physician. His health status alone demands an immediate release to hospital or other good medical care before it is too late. What happened to Alexei Navalny in Russia's gulag cannot be allowed to happen to @ImranKhanPTI .

RT @richardbranson: It's not cricket. @ImranKhanPTI should be released immediately by Pakistan’s authorities. His arbitrary detention casts…

1/ If you wanted to craft a @CMSinnovates model with the best chance of improving care and reducing cost, this would be it. CMS nails it with the ACO PC Flex Mode a 🧵

The Change Healthcare ransomware attack led to serious snags in the delivery of prescription drugs nationwide for 10 days and counting. One of the partners of the hackers behind the attack points out that those hackers received a $22 million payment. wired.trib.al/qYCDaTe

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Gemini 1.5 Pro - A highly capable multimodal model with a 10M token context length Today we are releasing the first demonstrations of the capabilities of the Gemini 1.5 series, with the Gemini 1.5 Pro model. One of the key differentiators of this model is its incredibly long context capabilities, supporting millions of tokens of multimodal input. The multimodal capabilities of the model means you can interact in sophisticated ways with entire books, very long document collections, codebases of hundreds of thousands of lines across hundreds of files, full movies, entire podcast series, and more. Gemini 1.5 was built by an amazing team of people from @GoogleDeepMind, @GoogleResearch, and elsewhere at @Google. @OriolVinyals (my co-technical lead for the project) and I are incredibly proud of the whole team, and we’re so excited to be sharing this work and what long context and in-context learning can mean for you today! There’s lots of material about this, some of which are linked to below. Main blog post: blog.google/technology/ai/go… Technical report: “Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context” goo.gle/GeminiV1-5 Videos of interactions with the model that highlight its long context abilities: Understanding the three.js codebase: youtube.com/watch?v=SSnsmqIj… Analyzing a 45 minute Buster Keaton movie: youtube.com/watch?v=wa0MT8Ow… Apollo 11 transcript interaction: youtube.com/watch?v=LHKL_210… Starting today, we’re offering a limited preview of 1.5 Pro to developers and enterprise customers via AI Studio and Vertex AI. Read more about this on these blogs: Google for Developers blog: developers.googleblog.com/20… Google Cloud blog: cloud.google.com/blog/produc… We’ll also introduce 1.5 Pro with a standard 128,000 token context window when the model is ready for a wider release. Coming soon, we plan to introduce pricing tiers that start at the standard 128,000 context window and scale up to 1 million tokens, as we improve the model. Early testers can try the 1 million token context window at no cost during the testing period. We’re excited to see what developer’s creativity unlocks with a very long context window. Let me walk you through the capabilities of the model and what I’m excited about!

Year of the dragon: We have entered the AI age venturebeat.com/ai/year-of-t… via @VentureBeat

Google Gemini Ultra 1.0 is here, as of an hour or so, 2 month free subscription, $19.99/month. Save 1 cent on GPT-4...? Video coming tonight.

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Despite just passing the peak, there are still A MILLION new #COVID cases in the 🇺🇸 EVERY DAY - and about 1 in every 33 people is infected. #COVIDisNotOver @CatchTheBaby 📩drruth.substack.com/

Wearable Digital Health Technologies for Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine | NEJM bravo to ⁦@leftbundle⁩ et al nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…

We talk a lot about overall health spending, but less about the profit pools. Super interesting lens from @McKinsey here. They peg the overall U.S. healthcare profit pool at ~$580B in 2022, with 40-45% of that flowing to providers and ~10% to payers. h/t @SebastianCaliri

It was my first #CES but it definitely won’t be my last! I was blown away by the global presence, the tech innovation, and oh yeah, my panel with @mcuban. Connecting with my #healthcare conference family and glimpsing the future at #CES2024 was amazing! 👏👏