Good morning 👋 If your weekend didn’t involve nudists, rockets, and billionaires, are you even living your best life? Fortunately, Florida is picking up the slack. The state’s nudists have declared war on Musk. SpaceX launches could close Playalinda Beach up to 60 days a year, disrupting wildlife and naked beach days for 250k sunbathers. Meanwhile, SpaceX fanboys say the nudists and endangered turtles should simply “migrate.”
🐻 Newsom is about to decide on SB 53. California’s AI safety bill combines oversight and cloud subsidies. Big AI labs would have to share their safety practices, and whistleblowers reporting sketchy behavior would get protection. But tucked inside is “CalCompute,” a mysterious state-funded cloud for startups. Nobody knows how it’ll work or who picks up the tab. Typical government move: demand transparency, then hand out freebies.
💊 Soon you might take a pill to make your brain younger. Not just slow down aging, but actually reverse it. Retro Biosciences, backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, says its new pill can clear out cellular junk linked to Alzheimer’s, literally rebooting your brain’s self-cleaning mode. Human trials start next year. If it works you could end up with a sharper mind and a longer, healthier life. Sounds better than Sudoku.
⚖️ Rolling Stone just dropped a lawsuit on Google for summarizing its content. They claim AI Overviews steal readers and slash ad revenue by over 1/3. Even worse, they say visibility in search now hinges on letting Google repurpose their content. Google swears its summaries send more traffic, but Rolling Stone’s not buying it. Guess they can’t get no satisfaction.
🎁 Can we sell billionaires on the idea of wealth redistribution? Ray Dalio thinks we might have to. He says AI and humanoid robots could soon replace lawyers, accountants, even doctors. When that happens, wealth inequality could explode, forcing us to rethink who gets what. Someone might want to remind them that capitalism doesn’t work without customers.
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👽 NASA claims Martians are real. Sort of. Perseverance found rocks dotted with crystals identical to those formed by ancient microbes on Earth. It’s the clearest sign of life on Mars yet. But proving it means shipping those samples home, an $11 billion headache. NASA’s already on a bare bones budget, leaving China poised to beat us with its 2028 mission. Who knew shipping from Mars was so expensive.
🧸 In other California AI news, SB 243 also just landed on Newsom’s desk. It targets AI chatbot companions like Replika and Character.ai, requiring regular reminders to users they’re not talking to real people. Companies could even face lawsuits if their products cause harm. Good luck explaining accountability to Musk’s NSFW bots.
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of devs report spending extra time fixing AI code 🔧 Senior devs are turning into ‘AI babysitters,’ but 59% say it helps them ship faster overall.