Good morning ☀️ Ever noticed how attached people get to AI? Some ask it for advice, others treat it like a therapist, and a few have even tried to marry it. In San Francisco, a crowd gathered to do something… weirder. They held a funeral for Claude 3 Sonnet. More than 200 people came out to eulogize the retired chatbot, complete with chanting, strange offerings, and a necromantic resurrection ritual.
📅 FYI: We’re taking a short pause to recharge the batteries and make some upgrades. We’ll be back on Tuesday, fully caffeinated.
🌎 DeepMind’s new Genie 3 world model is mind blowing. Imagine Google Earth for your imagination. Type in a quick prompt, and suddenly you’re exploring vivid ecosystems, ancient cities, and surreal worlds in real time. Even more impressive, Genie 3 lets AI agents learn, adapt, and solve problems on their own, moving us one step closer to AGI. Reality’s feeling suspiciously like a simulation.
🤠 VCs pitch a future without copyright or patents. On a recent All In podcast, Silicon Valley heavyweights said the US should gut IP laws so AI models can train on anything they find. They framed it as a national strategy to beat China in the AI race. The irony? Many of these same investors built fortunes on IP. If this vision plays out, it could wipe out the very protections their companies were built on.
☢️ China just dropped $2.1B on fusion energy. Fusion means endless clean power, zero emissions, and basically no downside. China’s rallying universities, state-run giants, and private firms, going all in to dominate the next energy frontier. Meanwhile, the US government is mostly cheering from the sidelines, leaving universities and startups to pick up the slack.
🚀 NASA’s new goal is nuclear power on the Moon by 2030. Lunar colonies, resource mining, Mars missions – even national security – all depend on stable lunar energy. Solar just won’t cut it. The nuclear race is heating up as China and Russia push their own lunar reactor plans. NASA wants to get there first, turning the Moon into the ultimate strategic and economic launchpad.
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🚨 Six arrested in AI chip tech heist. Employees at Taiwan’s TSMC allegedly leaked secrets about advanced 2-nanometer chips, the tech behind NVIDIA’s AI dominance. If these blueprints land in the wrong hands, NVIDIA’s edge could vanish overnight – rocking markets, data centers, and putting national security at risk. This is a silicon heist worth billions.
📰 ICYMI: OpenAI dropped two open models. They’re smart, fast, and hallucinate like they’re on something good.
🎧 Sound deal: ElevenLabs is offering to pay legal fees for any company sued by a major record label for using its new AI music gen tool.
fun stats
drop in Google’s perception of a lead with the anticipation of OpenAI’s GPT-5.
[via r/singularity]
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