Good morning 👄 How can AI truly understand a flower if it can’t smell it? Taste a croissant? Feel the sun? We have chatbots that can describe beauty using perfect language. But without senses, artificial intelligence is blind to what matters. Researchers now say that without a physical body even the most advanced models are just guessing.
🔫 DIY YouTuber builds world’s most powerful handheld laser gun. Drake “Styropyro” Anthony turned an old radar speed gun into a 250-watt laser cannon that’s 50,000 times more powerful than a laser pointer. It can set pennies on fire, vaporize aluminum, and superheat aluminum oxide until it becomes synthetic rubies. If a Marvel villain had a YouTube channel, this would be episode one.
🎭 AI copyright is officially a legal soap opera. Reddit is suing Anthropic for scraping its site more than 100,000 times after promising to stop. Meanwhile, Reddit is getting paid $60 million a year by Google to license that same data. This is the new normal. Platforms are either suing or signing deals. The age of free scraping is over. It’s a very good time to be an AI copyright lawyer.
🤖 Futurama got some things right. Bender’s binges might just fuel the next generation of robots. Researchers are developing machines that digest metal, breathe oxygen, and circulate synthetic fluids to power themselves and stay functional in the field. One robotic fish tripled its runtime by switching from a battery to a fluid-based system inspired by biology. Sooner or later, the robots are going to want a beer fridge.
😬 OpenAI just lost the right to forget. A judge told them to save everything – every chat, every deleted thread, even those “temporary” ones that were supposed to disappear. The order covers API calls too, which means companies are now caught in the blast radius. OpenAI says it breaks user trust, shreds contracts, and puts sensitive data at risk worldwide. Let’s hope they fight it, or we’re in deep shit.
🎮 Hugging Face turns your MacBook into a robotics command center. Their new open-source model, SmolVLA, runs on local hardware, uses vision, language, and action to control real-world bots, and outperforms larger systems in both simulation and live tests. It was trained on community data, works on cheap robots, and separates perception from action so machines can move faster. Long live the open source robotics movement.
🪱 Vibe hacking is the new zero-day. The next cyberattack starts with a prompt. Hackers are now using AI agents to write malware. No coding needed. Just vibes and a keyboard. This isn’t some future threat. Jail broken models like WormGPT and FraudGPT are already showing up in blackhat forums. But the real danger isn’t amateurs. It’s experienced hackers using AI to move faster and hit harder. Security training won’t save you from a vibe check.
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🌈 DeepMind’s CEO says AGI could be five years away. Demis Hassabis believes when artificial general intelligence comes it will kick off a golden age of science, make us less selfish, and force us to rethink capitalism, collaboration, and consciousness itself. He says AGI will solve root problems like energy, water, and disease. This will unlock a future of radical abundance, where humanity stops hoarding and starts evolving. It might even crack time, invent new physics, and finally explain reality. All this from a guy who refuses to try LSD.
🌔 Asteroid mining is hard. One misstep and the whole mission is scrap. Astronomers say the moon might be a better bet, with over 6,500 craters formed by platinum-rich asteroids. That’s a trillion dollars in plain sight, and the tech to reach it is finally real. Ispace, a private company, is landing there this week, targeting a region no one has touched. With demand for critical metals rising, the moon could be the next resource race. The only thing in the way? A VC deck that says “decentralized.”
🔆 Edge AI is coming to a Walmart parking lot near you. AI use is exploding, and infrastructure is shifting fast to meet the demand. Instead of massive hyperscale facilities, we’re seeing smaller data centers built closer to where people live and work. They use less energy, need less cooling, and can be deployed almost anywhere. These sites are already popping up in cities, strip malls, and retail chains. The singularity starts in a shipping container behind Taco Bell.
Fun stats
26 mins a day
average time saved with Microsoft 365 Copilot
ᕯ 14% saved +1 hour/day
ᕯ 22% saved less than 5 mins
ᕯ 70% said it cut grunt work and info-hunting
ᕯ 80% didn’t want to give it up after the trial [Barrons]
