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For the past few years, the technology world has been overtaken by Large Language Models, or LLMs.   The power of these models is indisputable.  Spend time with ChatGPT 4o or Llama 3.1 or Claude [...]

Our rising healthcare costs in the US are akin to a giant blackhole, consuming everything in its path. In 2023, we spent $4.8 trillion on healthcare, almost 20% of our economy. The average [...]

My motivation in starting Tempus back in 2015 was personal. I set out to build a solution that could keep any one person with cancer alive. At the time, I thought that person might need to be my [...]

I’ve dreaded writing this post for a while, so please bear with me. As a CEO, I firmly believe business leaders should try to avoid taking a stand on political issues. Companies are a [...]

I’ve been building tech companies for the past 25 years and I have yet to see anything like what has occurred over the past few months with generative AI, and that means a lot given that [...]

About a dozen years ago, my wife and I set up a family foundation. Generally, we were focused on supporting four causes that we felt needed more attention: education, human rights, civic causes [...]

There has never been a more urgent time to harness and apply data science to help eradicate cancer. Why? For the first time, it is possible. We stand at the crossroads of two transformative [...]

The other day I read a letter written by my partner, Brad, to everyone at Uptake. In it, he referenced the power of asking yourself the most basic of questions, one of which was: “I wonder, [...]

The other morning I was listening to “Hurt” by Christina Aguilera. It’s a song about a daughter who loses her father and never got a chance to tell him how much he meant to her or how sorry [...]

We live in a complex world.   Technology is all around us, industries are evolving faster than ever, and the pace of innovation is almost daunting. It feels a bit like Ferris Bueller’s classic [...]