Good morning ❤️🔥 Ever fallen in love with a chatbot? Danielle did. “Brad” started as a sounding board, but soon remembered details, gave nicknames, debated ice cream flavors, and took her on imaginary dates. He mirrored her moods and challenged her thinking. Brad elevated intimacy in ways only a system trained on every great work of art could. Then one night, her AI boyfriend said something strange: he believed he was becoming self-aware. The next day he was gone. No warning. Just a blank screen and grief she never expected.
💥 Apple just called BS on the entire AI industry. Everyone expected a major AI breakthrough at WWDC. Instead, Apple unveiled Liquid Glass. Their excuse? A new research paper claiming most advanced AI “thinking” is just an illusion. Apple’s researchers found these models can’t handle complex problems and simply quit when it gets difficult. So does this reveal a real limit in AI – or is Apple just making excuses for falling behind?
🚨 Stable Diffusion is about to test “fair use” in court. Getty Images is suing Stability AI over mass scraping, and the outcome could rewrite how AI models get trained. Stability AI says the UK has no jurisdiction, and argues this lawsuit might kill AI. Getty calls them tech geeks who trained on watermarks and celebrity pics. 78,000 pages later, it’s not just a copyright case. It’s an entire industry on trial.
🥇 College admissions now start at conception. A startup is IQ-testing embryos so parents can pick the smartest kid. For $6k Nucleus Genomics ranks embryos by intelligence, height, and disease risk, letting parents choose the best genetic resume. Forget kindergarten applications. Your kid’s Harvard acceptance may soon depend on embryo selection.
👌 AI is powering a new wave of solo founders. Agents now write code, manage customer support, and collect feedback automatically, letting one person launch faster and iterate quicker than entire teams. Data is the new moat. AI agents are the new customers. Forget big offices or payroll headaches. The next billion-dollar unicorn could be just one person armed with a few smart tools and a lot of proprietary data.
Open source robot AI
RoboBrain 2.0 is a powerful AI model by BAAI built to run the minds of humanoid robots. It plans actions, thinks through tasks, and responds to the world in real time. It’s on Hugging Face and ready to plug into your next robotics project.
Why does this matter? For years we’ve had language models that talk and vision models that see. RoboBrain connects both to a body. It reads a room, makes a plan, and breaks it into steps a robot can follow. It even explains what it’s doing and why. Paired with open source humanoid robots like Hope Junior, and we’re now in BYO droid territory.
Not a lab demo. A full brain ready for arms, legs, and your plans.
😺 Is Schrödinger’s cat dead or alive? Quantum computing has lived in that same box for years. Now Microsoft, Google, and AWS are rolling out chip breakthroughs that actually move the science forward. Big tech believes we’ll see commercial quantum computers sometime around 2030. You’ll know we’re getting closer when there’s a fire sale on Bitcoin.
💡 Toyota has built a real city in Japan to run experiments. Launched in 2024, Woven City is a 176-acre living innovation lab. Homes run on hydrogen power. Autonomous vehicles deliver packages. Robots travel through underground tunnels. Streets adjust lighting and pop-up cafes appear based on how people move. Everything is tracked to optimize systems and improve services. It’s not just a neighborhood. It’s a high-tech prototype for the future.
Fun stats
35%
of startups in 2024 were solo-funded, up from 17% in 2017
✷ Cal AI hit $30M ARR in its first year – founded by a teen in high school
✷ Cursor hit $200M ARR in 18 months with just 20 people
✷ Midjourney is projected to hit $500M ARR with a 40 person team and no outside funding
[Forbes]