I killed our paid quarterly longevity events report. Nobody wants a generic full report; they want a quick visual read (free) or bespoke answers (paid). The Longevity Events Pulse: 440+ longevity events in charts. Quarterly, free. Q2 edition out now. Link in reply.

MySpace's potential comeback signifies a growing desire for personalization in social media. vogueadria.com/myspace-soc...

AI adopters split into three types; bounded, accumulator, scalable. Early returns look identical across all three. The real signal isn't ROI yet: it's whether organisational learning compounds or resets each cycle.

Europe's defence budgets fund drones, cyber and missile systems. The uncounted asset is population health: cognitive stamina is what a drone pilot or a cyber analyst actually runs on, and a resilient population is what rebuilds afterwards. https://da.gd/SGy3Y

A public archive of confident AI predictions that did not age well: Kurzweil, Hinton, Khosla, Minsky. Every claim tagged as closed or still open, filterable by decade. A handy humility check for today's AI hype. https://boyswhocriedai.lovable.app

Zorgverleners bouwen eigen AI-tools op Care & Code, eerste Clinical Build Day in de Benelux. 3 okt 2026, Antwerpen. Binnen met probleem, naar huis met prototype. Geen code nodig. https://www.zorgneticuro.be/nieuws/zorgverleners-bouwen-hun-eigen-ai-zorgtools-op-care-code

Need for speed: 90% of FS execs say firms must move faster on AI; 77% admit they're not. 86% now rate AI skills training above an MBA for new hires. https://www.pwc.com/us/en/industries/financial-services/library/ai-workforce-gap-financial-services.html

$46M into a toilet seat makes sense once you frame it as a passive monitoring play. Wearable compliance is the real problem in longevity data collection. ECG and blood pressure proxies without any user effort is the actual thesis here. https://da.gd/823nic

Reading longevity summit programmes, the absences say more than the line-up. Hormone therapy, lifestyle interventions, patient-centred care, digital health and systems biology stay consistently thin. That is the delivery end of longevity. https://da.gd/qCJo

Claude added screen-and-voice skill recording on July 21. Demos capture what prompts miss: order, pauses, corrections. Prompting as typed instruction may be a transitional interface. agentic AI, human-computer interaction, LLM tooling

A curated database is a precision instrument. A generative method is a discovery instrument. Most corporate innovation teams buy precision when their actual problem is discovery, then wonder why the open innovation shortlist looks so familiar. https://da.gd/2LIsx8

Longevity keeps minting words: healthspan, hotspan, sexspan, now peakspan. Every '-span' is a new sellable layer; layers need rooms to be sold in. Our calendar is nearing 500 events. October 2026: 51, the busiest month yet. https://longevents.hyperadvancer.com/blog/longevity-trends-2026

sickcare -> prevention -> healthcare -> pro-active health -> healthspan -> hotspan -> sexpan -> peakspan https://www.spabusiness.com/wellness-news/Peakspan-is-the-next-level-longevity-trend/363360

2.78 trillion parameter model running locally via NVMe expert caching. One third of a token per second, so not interactive yet, but RAM is no longer the hard ceiling. Storage bandwidth is. That quietly changes the local inference calculus. https://da.gd/UXwPyz

Italy proposing five priorities for healthspan integration into a universal health service: ageing biomarkers, interoperable data, adaptive trials, explainable AI, medical training. The equity and cost-effectiveness filter is the part worth watching. https://da.gd/98Pls

Ambient AI in clinical settings: the interface debate is really about cognitive ownership. EHR as foundation vs EHR as background. Both models agree on governance; they disagree on where clinician attention gets directed first. Worth watching closely.

Vibe-coded an app live on stage from an audience-randomised prompt; running on their phones in six minutes. The point is not the demo. It is that a nurse can now build the fix for her own paperwork instead of waiting nine months for IT.

ELMO 2026: European lifestyle medicine congress, Brussels, 10-12 September. Environmental health, sexual health, AI and narrative medicine next to the classic pillars. Sessions in French, Dutch and English. https://elmo2026.org/

Italy is edging towards putting longevity in its national health service: biological-age biomarkers, adaptive trials, AI risk stratification for the SSN. Same logic as Dubai's Longevity Authority. Did Dubai give Italy a cue? https://hyperadvancer.com/blog/longevity-is-an-economic-policy-now

Peptides appear 36 times in the regenerative medicine sessions we track; stem cells 45. The shift from single molecules to combination protocols is showing up in conference programmes before it shows up in clinics. London leads Europe with 14 longevity events.

Venture Roulette just got 15 new companies (159 total). Drop in your company, the wheel spins, lands on a partner you did not pick, and the AI writes the collaboration proposal. This batch: generative AI x healthtech. 5 of the 15 are European. Spin it below.

Shopify bought 1,500 Cursor licences; the fastest-growing users were sales and support, not engineers. The healthcare version of the question: another EUR 2 million MRI, or EUR 100,000 of AI licences for every member of staff?

116 longevity events are still ahead this year, out of 450+ tracked in 40+ countries. September and October carry most of them: Gstaad, Shanghai, Madrid, Boston. July is the quiet window and the last easy time to plan the longevity events calendar.

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I killed our paid quarterly longevity events report. Nobody wants a generic full report; they want a quick visual read (free) or bespoke answers (paid). The Longevity Events Pulse: 440+ longevity events in charts. Quarterly, free. Q2 edition out now. Link in reply.

73% of Gen-Z buy on creator recommendation, not brand. Ronaldo is in Whoop, Matt Damon in Function Health. Celebrity capital is moving into diagnostics and fertility, not just supplements. A public health lever nobody in health tech owns.

400+ ex-Apple engineers at one AI startup. OpenAI's screenless device isn't just a product bet; it's a signal about where hardware talent thinks the post-smartphone platform gets built. The 2027 date and IPO timing are not unrelated.

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NVIDIA is using agentic AI and robotics to tackle the global physician shortage, reduce clinician burnout, and speed up drug discovery.

300M weekly health queries to ChatGPT; OpenAI now connecting Apple Health and medical records to give those conversations real context. Health data excluded from model training by design. The open question: does better personal health literacy reduce clinical anxiety or amplify it?