China’s Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. While GLM lags behind models from Anthropic and OpenAI in other, more general tasks, it seems that China has dramatically reduced the gap in the capabilities between its models and those of the US.

This level of advancement is particularly concerning to the US government, which has worked to restrict China’s access to powerful models like Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable, as well as the hardware necessary to train and run them. The Trump administration views Mythos and other advanced AI models capable of identifying vulnerabilities as serious national security threats. Recently, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.6, which has also raised concerns about its potential for misuse and has limited access to it.

Because GLM is an open-weight model, it can be downloaded and run by anyone on readily available hardware. That gives it great flexibility and allows power users deep access, but it also makes it ripe for abuse by bad actors who can run it with little oversight.

Midjourney made its name by turning text prompts into stunning AI images. Now it wants to scan your body while you stand in warm water. Yes, really.

The company has announced Midjourney Medical, a new division focused on a full-body ultrasound scanner. Midjourney says the goal is to make body scans faster, cheaper and easier to get.

The basic idea is this. You step onto a platform in a shallow pool. Then the platform slowly lowers you through water while underwater sensors send sound waves through your body. The system listens for how those waves bounce back and change. From there, computers build a 3D map of what is happening inside your body.

Midjourney says the scan could take about 60 seconds. No radiation. No powerful magnets. Just water, sound and a huge amount of computing power. That sounds amazing. It also raises a big question: Can a company known for AI art really help change medical imaging?

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What is the Midjourney body scanner?

Midjourney describes its body scanner as a water-based full-body ultrasound system. The company calls the technology “Ultrasonic CT.” Instead of lying inside a hospital scanner, you would step into a shallow pool. Then a platform would lower you through a ring of ultrasound sensors.

Those sensors send sound waves through your body from many angles. The system studies how those waves change as they pass through tissue. Then, powerful computers turn that information into a detailed body map.

Midjourney says its first scanner will focus on body composition maps. That could include details about muscle, fat and other body structures. That part is important because body composition fits more clearly into a wellness starting point. Diagnostic medical uses would require regulatory clearance.

How the Midjourney body scanner works

The scanner starts with water because ultrasound travels well through it. You stand on a platform connected to rails. Then the platform slowly lowers you at about 2 inches per second. As your body moves downward, it passes through a ring of tiny sensor elements. Midjourney describes those elements as both tiny speakers and tiny microphones.

Each one sends ultrasonic sound waves into the water and your body. Then it records what comes back. Think of it as echolocation with extreme detail. A dolphin uses sound to understand what sits nearby. This scanner uses sound from many angles to build an image of your body.

Midjourney says the system produces a massive amount of data every second. That data then moves to a large computer cluster, where the system turns sound-wave changes into images. Those changes reveal important differences.

Sound moves through skin, fat, muscle, bone and other tissue in different ways. The scanner studies those shifts and uses them to reconstruct a 3D map.

Why Midjourney built a medical scanner

At first, this move feels strange. Midjourney is the company people know for AI images, not medical hardware. But the technical connection makes sense. This scanner needs huge amounts of computing power. It also needs advanced image reconstruction. Midjourney already works with large image systems and AI models.

The company also describes itself as a research lab. It says it has no investors and gets support from its community. That gives Midjourney room to chase ideas that look unusual from the outside. A water-based body scanner inside a spa definitely qualifies.

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Why the Midjourney Spa matters

Midjourney wants the scanner to feel more like a spa visit than a medical appointment. Its first Midjourney Spa is planned for San Francisco at the end of 2027. The concept includes hot tubs, saunas, cold plunges and scanning rooms with pools of golden light.

That changes the whole feel of medical imaging. No cold hospital room. No loud MRI tube. No long appointment that wears you and me out.

Instead, the company wants people to get scans more often. In Midjourney’s view, you could track body changes over time, almost like you track sleep, steps or heart rate today.

Midjourney body scanner vs. MRI

Midjourney makes a bold comparison to MRI. The company says its scanner could create images that look similar to today’s MRI scans, but much faster.

MRI machines can show remarkable detail. Doctors use them for serious medical questions. They also require trained staff, approved protocols and careful interpretation.

Midjourney’s scanner has not replaced MRI machines. For now, the company plans to start with body composition maps. That still could be useful. A quick scan may help someone better understand changes in muscle, fat or other body measurements.

Yet medical diagnosis takes more than an impressive scan image. Doctors need proof. Regulators need data. Patients need clear answers about what the scan can find, what it can miss and what the results actually mean.

Why FDA clearance matters for the Midjourney body scanner

Medical imaging has a high bar for a reason. A scan can shape major health decisions. Midjourney says it plans to submit test results to the FDA for added capabilities. That process will help determine what the scanner can legally claim.

A wellness scan and a diagnostic scan serve different roles. A wellness scan may help you learn more about your body. A diagnostic scan may help guide treatment for a disease, injury or medical condition.

Each of these requires different evidence. They also carry different risks. For example, a scan might spot something unclear. That could send someone into follow-up tests, specialist visits and weeks of worry.

On the other hand, a scan might miss something important and give someone false confidence. That is why doctors will want strong clinical data before they trust this technology for serious medical decisions.

What to watch next for the Midjourney body scanner

The big thing to watch is proof. The scanner may look impressive, but medical claims need strong testing behind them.

FDA clearance will be another key step. If Midjourney wants this to do more than body composition maps, regulators will need to see solid data.

The first San Francisco spa will also tell us a lot. Once people actually use it, we will learn more about comfort, cost, safety and privacy.

Doctors will have the final say in whether this becomes a trusted medical tool. If the science holds up, this could be a huge shift. If it does not, it may stay more of a high-tech wellness experience.

What this means for you

If the Midjourney body scanner works, it could make health scans feel much less intimidating. That alone could be a big deal. Many people avoid scans because they cost too much, take too long or feel stressful.

A 60-second water-based scan could lower that barrier. It could also help people track changes in their bodies over time.

Privacy also needs serious attention. A full-body scan contains deeply personal information. Before anyone signs up, they should know who stores the data, who can see it, how long it lasts and whether it can be shared.

For now, treat this as a fascinating early project. Do not treat it as a replacement for medical imaging that your doctor orders.

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Kurt’s key takeaways

Midjourney’s body scanner is one of the wildest health tech ideas I’ve seen in a long time. You step into warm water, get lowered through ultrasound sensors and come out with a body map in about a minute. That could make scans feel a lot less stressful. It could also help people track changes in their bodies over time. However, this still needs proof. Midjourney needs clinical data, FDA clearance for medical uses and clear privacy rules before anyone treats this like a trusted medical tool. I love the big idea. I just want the science, safety and privacy to be as impressive as the technology.

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I’m sure we’re all familiar with Dark Crystal, so we know that Jim Henson can be weird and tackle slightly more mature subject matter. But there is little in his oeuvre that is quite as mind-bending as the Muppetless The Cube. This 1969 teleplay was produced for an NBC anthology series called Experiment in Television, which featured, appropriately enough, various experimental films, plays, and documentaries. One episode even featured Marshall McLuhan explaining his oft-cited theory that “the medium is the message.”

Even among all these oddities, however, Jim Henson’s The Cube stands out. It’s a 53-minute bottle film — taking place almost entirely in a single room. A man awakes in a white cube, unsure of where he is or how he got there. There are no windows, no door. Just walls of white panels.

It doesn’t take long for someone to open a section of the wall and bring in a stool for our nameless man in the cube. But when he closes the “door” behind him, our protagonist can’t open it back up. And thus begins the parade of people, dozens of them, taking turns going in and out of various invisible doors in the titular cube.

The interactions start off strangely enough — why is there strawberry jam on the stool? Who is this woman who claims to be the protagonist’s wife even though he doesn’t recognize her? But they quickly escalate, calling into question the nature of reality, our protagonist’s sanity, and raising questions about what the cube is exactly. Jim Henson himself even makes an uncredited cameo as the voice of a gorilla in a tutu.

As people come and go, delivering supplies to the man, harassing him, or even attempting to seduce him, the room changes around him inexplicably. Beds, couches, fully stocked liquor cabinets, and other furniture mysteriously appear. A full band slips in and sings a song with the line “you’ll never get out ‘til you’re dead,” before it’s revealed to be a recording as the record skips repeatedly on the word “dead.”

The Cube offers many questions but no answers. Is the man living in a simulation? Is he on TV? Are the people around him actors? Is any of it real at all? Does matter exist?

Even in a post-Twilight Zone world, The Cube feels uniquely bizarre, more akin to the modern dystopian anthology series Black Mirror than anything else. While it’s not true lost media, it remains relatively obscure. It only aired twice, there’s a sold-out DVD listing on Amazon, and it only occasionally makes an appearance on streaming services in any official capacity.

Your best bets right now are a pair of YouTube uploads, both embedded above. One is a much higher-quality transfer of a black-and-white kinescope film with remastered audio. Unfortunately, it also cuts out most of the song due to copyright. The other upload is full color and retains the song, but is a generally lower quality rip with muddier image and audio. Regardless of which one you choose, it’s a wild and thoroughly enjoyable ride that shows just how twisted the mind of Jim Henson could be.