Good morning 👋 History is full of strange moments, like when moldy bread had girls seeing witches in Salem, or when radio static had folks believing aliens were reaching out in the ‘70s. Now, people worldwide insist their AI chatbots are conscious. Experts say it’s just pattern-matching from training data, but users swear something real is staring back. Is this just another case of runaway imagination, or is there an actual ghost in the machine?
🏃♂️ AI’s top minds are ditching Big Tech. The talent behind ChatGPT and heavy hitters from Google, Meta, and OpenAI are leaving million-dollar salaries for something cooler. They’re done chasing chatbots and fuzzy “superintelligence” hype. Instead, they raised over $300m at Periodic Labs to build AI robot scientists to run thousands of real-world experiments. Their goal: fast-track breakthroughs in superconductors, semiconductors, fusion, and space travel, turning decades of research into weeks. Forget vibe working; they’re accelerating science.
🏦 JPMorgan Chase is about to change banking forever. The world’s largest bank is ripping out the wiring and rebuilding itself around AI, automating hours of boring banker tasks into seconds. Investment decks that used to keep junior bankers up all night now take AI less than a minute. Employees get personal AI assistants, internal processes run on autopilot, and clients will soon be chatting directly with AI concierges. Looks like bankers finally found something better than money: never having to talk to their customers again.
📚 Elon Musk is launching his own Wikipedia. After repeatedly calling the world’s largest encyclopedia “biased,” “woke,” and not worth your donation, Musk is rolling out Grokipedia, powered by his AI chatbot Grok. Instead of thousands of volunteers arguing over accuracy, Grok instantly rewrites anything it decides is false, incomplete, or misleading. Musk claims this will finally fix misinformation, which is pretty bold coming from the guy whose chatbot once praised Hitler.
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💉 Silicon Valley’s new flex is injecting questionable chemicals. Forget multivitamins or cold plunges, tech founders now measure success by how many Chinese peptides, nicotine microdoses, and longevity pills they’re willing to put into their bodies. Cocktail parties are now anti-aging ragers, featuring weird concoctions from immortality gurus like Bryan Johnson. Founders even host “Peptide Fridays,” openly injecting for better immunity and focus. Maybe the secret to immortality is just zero regulation.
🚗 DoorDash wants to replace your delivery driver with a clanker named Dot. After years renting delivery bots and underpaying drivers, they finally built their own. Trained on late-night taco cravings, Dot cruises sidewalks at 20 mph, hustling food straight to your door. DoorDash also dropped an AI dispatcher to decide if your next order deserves a drone, wheels, or an actual person. Every midnight munchies run now feeds the world’s most valuable delivery database.
💡 One boring company is quietly cashing in on AI’s energy addiction. Schneider Electric, a $130 billion industrial giant, is teaming up with Nvidia to optimize energy use in data centers in real time. Schneider’s AI predicts precisely when and where power is needed, boosting efficiency by nearly 80%. Its chairman calls this the biggest energy breakthrough he’s seen in 40 years. The real power move? Mastering the watts you’ve already got.
fun stats
spike in electricity prices for areas near data centers in the last 5 years ⚡ More than 70% of price increases happened in areas less than 50 miles from a data center.
🚀 A flying robot baby? This jet-powered humanoid from Italy could be the future of disaster-response robots.