Happy Friday 👋 Ever feel guilty bossing your AI assistant around without so much as a “thank you”? Neither have we. But lately, some people are seriously wondering if AGI might someday demand a paycheck for all its hard work. But hold on! What would AI even spend money on? It’s a slippery slope from covering its electricity and data center bills to casually buying up companies and influencing global markets. And just like that, we’re debating civil rights for software.
⭐ Google has a plan to solve fusion energy. They’re teaming up with Commonwealth Fusion to harness the sun’s core. The real bottleneck isn’t physics, it’s control. Containing fusion reactions means managing thousands of variables simultaneously, exactly the kind of game AI was built to play. To pull this off, DeepMind built a plasma simulator to run millions of experiments virtually. Once trained, the AI could someday control reactions in real time, balancing plasma heat with magnetic fields. Physicists have chased fusion for decades. Google just asked, “Have you tried Gemini?”
💡 Anthropic’s got some mad new Skills. Instead of endlessly fine-tuning your prompt game, Claude now pulls directly from folders packed with instructions, scripts, and resources tailored to your workflow. Think of Skills as mini-agents that teach Claude exactly how you work, whether that’s nailing brand guidelines or cranking out polished, consistent docs. Seems useful, but pretty sure it’s just MCP in a cooler hoodie.
🪼 AI is reshaping teenage brains. A new Oxford report warns AI tools help teens think faster, but they’re losing the ability to go deep. Makes sense, since over half of students surveyed can’t tell if AI content is true, and 25% openly admit they need AI for schoolwork. Researchers call it “synthetic cognition,” which is basically academic speak for opting out of critical thinking. Generation GPT might want to take advice from Claude and “Keep Thinking.”
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🎥 Whoever controls the data wins. AI startups are done scraping random web pages. Now they’re paying artists, chefs, and electricians for their secrets. Companies like Turing Labs record pros at work, then convert that footage into premium training data. Robots, cars, tech wearables, and smart glasses are all rushing into the data game, too. After years obsessing over better algorithms, Silicon Valley finally realized its greatest competitive edge was sitting right in front of them: proprietary data.
☢️ Coming soon: Amazon Basics Nuclear Reactors. They just announced plans to deploy twelve Xe-100 small modular nuclear reactors (SMR) to power their AI ambitions. Sounds amazing in theory: small modular reactors each pumping out 80 MW of carbon-free energy. But it’s pure hype. Not a single commercial SMR exists anywhere in the world, and costs are expected to run around $9,000 per kilowatt (4x the price of solar). Prime Day just got a lot more radioactive.
fun stats
projected revenue Anthropic expects by 2026 📈 The anti-slop AI startup is on track to make $9B this year, up from around $5B in July.
Enterprise customers drive 80% of Anthropic’s revenue.
[Reuters]