Good morning 👋 The hottest item online isn’t Superbowl halftime tickets or AI smart glasses. It’s invite codes for an app that pumps out AI-generated deepfake videos of you and your friends. People are farming and flipping access to OpenAI’s Sora 2 on eBay and social media, regularly selling codes for around $35, with some currently listed as high as $100. Because each invite generates four more, it’s basically an infinite cash hype-loop.
🎟️Seriously though: If anyone has a spare invite, hit us up. We’ll give you a shout out in tomorrow’s issue.
🪄 Imagine having your own personal AI. Mira Murati’s new startup, Thinking Machines Lab, just launched Tinker, a simple tool that lets anyone fine-tune advanced models like Meta’s Llama or Alibaba’s Qwen. Usually, customizing AI requires expensive GPU clusters and expert skills. Tinker simplifies all that, letting users create personalized AI models and run them privately. Now companies can secure sensitive data, and DIY hackers are one step closer to building their own Jarvis. Personalized AI just went mainstream.
💥 Yale researchers say AI isn’t taking jobs or boosting productivity. Despite nonstop headlines claiming AI is reshaping work, new data from Yale’s Budget Lab says reality is quieter. Nearly three years after ChatGPT’s launch, researchers found no meaningful shift in productivity, hiring, or corporate AI adoption. In fact, AI adoption even slowed slightly since July. So if AI isn’t causing disruption, why exactly are companies laying people off?
🧠 Now your brainwaves can control Apple’s AR headset, no implants required. Cognixion is launching clinical trials to help paralyzed patients communicate and control Apple’s Vision Pro using only their thoughts. Users wear a headband that detects what they’re looking at, then translates their brain signals into speech or actions. An AI assistant, custom-trained for each user, helps the headset respond instantly and accurately. It’s as close as you can get to mind controlled tech.
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🗑️ Low Earth orbit is basically a space junkyard. Millions of tiny fragments circle the planet, each one fast enough to shred satellites or spacecraft. Every collision spawns thousands more fragments, risking an exponential nightmare called the Kessler syndrome. Once it kicks off, collisions multiply endlessly, eventually making orbit too dangerous for satellites. SpaceX’s Starlink satellites alone had to dodge this orbital shrapnel 144,404 times in just six months. Can we send Elon the cleanup bill?
🤘 An AI band is now more popular than the band it copied. Welsh post-hardcore group Holding Absence spent nearly a decade building their audience. Bleeding Verse, a gen AI act openly inspired by them, beat their Spotify listener count in just two months. Fans initially couldn’t tell them apart, and Spotify’s algorithm boosted the copycat. Turns out originality isn’t worth much when AI makes the playlists.
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people worldwide use Meta AI every month 🥳 To celebrate, Meta announced it’s going to mine your chats and messages to target you with more ads.
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