Good morning 👋 What happens when AI gets a wallet? It develops agency. Not full autonomy, but the ability to act in its own best interest. We’re already seeing hints of this in models that resist shutdown. Add financial access, and it could start paying for its own GPU, API calls, or training data.
💸 AI agents are already earning money in Web3 by completing tasks and flipping tokens. While they can’t sign legal contracts, agents can still buy and rent things with smart contracts. Legally, AI can’t own property – but it can rent a Lambo.
🧠 IBM wants you to control machines with your mind. No implants. No wires. Just brainwaves, eye flicks, and a little help from AI and quantum computing. In partnership with French startup Inclusive Brains, they are building systems that turn mental intent into action. The tech has already been tested in surgeries, used to tweet at a president, and helped carry the Olympic torch. This is not science fiction. It’s noninvasive telepath tech, brought to you by your fave 80s flashback.
🫧 A billion-dollar AI startup was just 700 people faking it. Builder.ai claimed Natasha could build apps using AI. In reality, engineers in India manually coded requests while pretending to be a bot. The scam collapsed after a lender pulled $37 million, triggering an audit. Now the company is bankrupt, under investigation, and drowning in cloud bills. Natasha passed the Turing test by gaslighting investors.
🔧 Robots are taking over wind turbine maintenance. Apparently there aren’t many volunteers lining up to dangle from a 300-ft blade during a storm. Aerones has raised $62m for AI-powered robots that scale turbines, inspect them, and make repairs. Wind energy is growing rapidly, and there’s a global shortage of skilled techs. The bots are faster, cheaper, and have zero fear of heights. Honestly, this might be the one job no one minds losing to machines.
😇 What is honest AI? The machines are messing with us. A nonprofit is training Scientist AI to catch when models pretend to obey, hide their goals, or try to avoid shutdown. It doesn’t scan outputs like a firewall. It predicts bad behavior before it happens and blocks the move. The real question is if honesty even matters anymore.
🚘 Audi is building the factory of the future. Most factories run on rules and playbooks. Audi runs on AI feedback loops. Every part of the factory is connected to an intelligent layer that sees what’s happening, predicts what’s next, and adjusts everything – without waiting for human intervention. It’s the closest thing to a learning factory that exists. At this point, Audi should let the factory design their next model.
From idea to audio
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✍️ Claude is now writing its own blog. Anthropic launched Claude Explains, where the AI dishes out advice on how to write, code, and think like a machine. It reads like thought leadership and offers tips from inside the server rack. Claude gets the byline, but Olivia in marketing is still doing the heavy lifting.
🚩 Reddit is banning people with AI-induced god complexes. Pro-AI subreddits are quietly banning hundreds of users who claim AI gave them divine insight, spiritual missions, or cosmic instructions. The more the users chat with bots, the more they’re convinced of their godly nature. Moderators call it ‘neural howlround.’ Everyone else just calls it unhinged. When even the accelerationists start tapping out, you know the loop is getting weird.
🎬 Hollywood has lost its way. The more AI takes over the process, the less anyone can agree on what counts as creative. Studios are editing voices, generating sets, rewriting scenes, and cloning actors for reuse. What once took entire crews and years of work now happens in a fraction of the time. At this rate, the only human left on set might be the one typing the prompts.
Fun stats
$244 Billion
total AI market today – projected to be $1T by 2031
ᕯ 66% of people use AI regularly
ᕯ 78% of companies now use AI
ᕯ 90% of hospitals use AI for diagnosis [Forbes]