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Good morning 👋 to anyone who’s ever wanted telepathy without spending 3 days vomiting in the desert. You know, the kind where you silently control your phone and text your friends using only your mind. An MIT Media Lab project called AlterEgo just showed off their noninvasive wearable neural interface that lets you chat with AI without uttering a single word. No brain surgery required.

🤯 Check out their demo video further down. It’s mind-blowing stuff (literally).

🖨️ A 3D printer just created living human tissue with AI. It sounds like Star Trek, but it’s real. Researchers at Utrecht University have developed a new bioprinting method that combines laser imaging with AI. The technique maps out living cells, then designs a custom network of blood vessels to keep the tissue alive. The breakthrough could eventually solve the organ shortage and put the black market kidney trade out of business.

⚗️ Silicon Valley billionaires want to make aging optional. Thiel, Altman, Andreessen and other wealthy investors have pumped more than $12.5B into longevity startups, betting science can add decades to our lives. Their money is funding startups and nonprofits that rewind cells, battle age-related diseases, and sell trendy anti-aging supplements. Yet despite all the cash and big promises, there’s still no magic pill for eternal youth. So why keep investing? If they can reverse aging, it’ll unlock the biggest market in human history.

🎬 OpenAI wants Hollywood to bet big on AI. They’re pushing out a GenAI feature length David Attenborough wannabe film called “Critterz,” set to debut at Cannes in 2026. Cleverly disguised as AI slop, the animated movie is being produced in just 9 months on a shoestring budget. Real people still handle the voices (for now), and someone (maybe a child with crayons) sketched the artwork. AI does everything else. Based on the preview, Pixar and Disney are safe.

⚡ The biggest barrier to AI growth isn’t square footage, it’s electricity. By 2026, data centers could burn more power than entire countries. Utilities are already warning the grid can’t handle it. Now investors won’t touch new data centers unless developers lock in wind, solar, or nuclear power first. Soon AI companies will have no choice but to become energy companies.

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👁️ Ever ask a question and get the “Gen Z stare”? That blank, deadpan look suggesting they just logged out (or are silently mocking you). Raised on social media and digital messaging, Gen Z increasingly struggles with real-world conversations. Covid lockdowns didn’t help either. Ironically, the fix might be practicing face-to-face conversations in VR with virtual AI people. Because AI conversation coaches aren’t cringe at all.

🎪 Vibe coding is great for MVPs, but terrible for security. Sure, AI tools can spin up entire apps overnight with ridiculously good-looking code. But when Coinbase bragged that half its code was AI-generated, devs ridiculed them on social media. They called out vibe-coded software for hiding bugs and tech debt that only show up after compiling.  Fixing AI code can take just as much time as writing it yourself.

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🧠 Legit or fake? AlterEgo’s silent convo in their (nearly) telepathic wearable demo video is blowing up on Reddit.

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$115 billion

amount OpenAI now expects to burn through 2029 ❤️‍🔥 That’s $80B higher than previous estimates. Luckily their revenue is also growing faster than expected, with a projected $13B this year and $200B in 2030. 

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