Hey there 👋 Ever turn down a billion dollars? Us neither. But that’s exactly what just happened at Thinking Machines Lab, where Mark Zuckerberg tried – and spectacularly failed – to buy his way into relevance. We’ve seen desperation before, but Meta offering over $1B to poach talent from Mira Murati’s startup sets a whole new bar. Spoiler: they all said no. Turns out, Zuck’s big-money rizz isn’t working as well as he hoped.
🇪🇺 Tomorrow, Europe’s controversial AI Act goes live. Companies will have to prove their AI models are safe, secure, and won’t harm people. They’ll need to clearly show how their models make decisions, reveal training data, and track their energy use. Europe is also banning social scoring and emotion recognition. Plus, it’ll demand transparency for high-risk tools like hiring algorithms and facial recognition. Meanwhile in the US, all the AI rules fit neatly on a Post-it note.
🎈 Could steampunk airships make satellites irrelevant? SoftBank thinks so. They’re planning solar-powered blimps that hover 20 km up and beam down 5G signals. That’s twice as responsive as Starlink. Just one floating cell tower can replace 25 ground towers and stay airborne for an entire year. Looks like satellite internet is about to become overpriced space junk.
📣 Google is indexing your private ChatGPT conversations. When you click “Share,” ChatGPT creates a public link to your chat. But many users don’t realize these links can show up in basic Google searches. Thousands of private conversations, including mental health and addiction struggles, are already publicly searchable. If exploited carefully, this could be the greatest marketing hack of all time.
🏥 Trump wants Big Tech to handle your medical records. His administration is teaming up with over 60 tech giants to build a nationwide health data network. Soon you’ll manage doctor visits with apps, AI chatbots, and wearables tracking your every heartbeat. Just one catch. These companies aren’t bound by medical privacy laws, meaning your most sensitive health info could soon become ChatGPT training material.
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👄 Meta allegedly pirated porn to train its AI. A new lawsuit claims they torrented nearly 2,400 copyrighted adult movies, feeding Meta’s AI models explicit “human-centric imagery” since 2018. The reason? To teach the AI how real humans move and interact, details it apparently couldn’t get from mainstream videos. Good luck explaining that browser history, Zuck.
fun stats
of all chatbot answers come from journalism sites.
📚 48% of AI’s advice comes from corporate blogs.
📚 33% of AI’s facts are pulled from encyclopedias or aggregators.
📚 Sponsored ads? AI barely notices – paid content rarely makes the cut.
[what AI actually reads via Axios]
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Today Mark shared Meta’s vision for the future of personal superintelligence for everyone.
— AI at Meta (@AIatMeta) July 30, 2025
Read his full letter here: https://t.co/2p68g36KMj pic.twitter.com/Hpzf77jAiG