Good morning. Two of the world’s richest men are having the most expensive midlife crisis ever. Musk launches rockets, so Bezos builds bigger ones. Musk creates an AI company, Bezos fires back with Project Prometheus: a new AI startup he’ll co-CEO targeting spacecraft and automobiles to directly challenge xAI, SpaceX, and Tesla. They both have media companies, so what’s next? At this point, it’s basically two billionaires burning piles of money to troll each other.
👺 Japan signals it’ll step in if China attacks Taiwan. China claims Taiwan belongs to them and isn’t exactly subtle about using force to bring it under Beijing’s control. Japan played it safe, avoiding sides and sticking to careful diplomacy. But Japan’s new leader just broke a 70-year streak, openly linking Taiwan’s security directly to Japan’s survival. China instantly lost it, calling this the most provocative move since World War II. Why does it matter? The US backs Taiwan, so Japan is dragging America even closer to a direct fight with China. Suddenly your iPhones, AI chips, and fighter jets are stuck in the world’s messiest custody battle.
✅ AI bots can now rig political polls. A researcher at Dartmouth proved AI agents can easily bypass every safeguard designed to detect bots. The AI solved logic puzzles, answered questions like a human, and even threw in some typos to evade detection 99.8% of the time. Polling companies think they’re measuring public opinion, but could easily be chatting with bots. It’s time to wake up and confirm responses come from real people. Otherwise, political surveys might as well be horoscopes.
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🎮 Google found a way to kill the joy in video games. Its new SIMA 2 AI gaming agent learns by observing, then figures out how to play on its own. No rules or instructions. Just trial, error, and an endless appetite for self-improvement. SIMA 2 easily masters games like Valheim and Goat Simulator 3, but Google isn’t chasing high scores. They’re training AI to understand and act within environments it’s never seen before. Games today. AGI, robots, and the real world tomorrow.
🚘 Lyft’s CEO squashes the driverless car hype. David Risher says there is “zero likelihood” of self-driving cars replacing drivers soon. The tech isn’t even close to ready. It still struggles in fog, snow, and heavy rain, and most riders prefer a human at the wheel. On top of that, self-driving cars cost $250k to $300k and depreciate fast. He predicts they will make up less than 10% of Lyft’s business by 2030. Good thing Silicon Valley never overpromised anything.
💡 Kosmos unlocks the powers of Einstein. It’s an autonomous AI scientist designed to speed up research discoveries. Created by Edison Scientific and backed by ex-Googler Eric Schmidt, Kosmos doesn’t just read research papers. It independently generates original insights using structured world models. In one run, Kosmos can read 1,500 studies and write 42,000 lines of code, doing 6 months of PhD-level research in a single day. Fully auditable and traceable, Kosmos gets it right 80% of the time. So for $200/month, researchers can now spin up scientific breakthroughs.
🛑 The “buy now, pay later” guy thinks AI’s trillion dollar bet is reckless. Klarna’s founder, one of the first CEOs to replace staff with AI, just called out Big Tech for overspending on massive AI data centers. He claims advanced models will soon run efficiently on a fraction of today’s resources, making all that pricey infrastructure pointless. Pretty rich coming from someone who built a fortune convincing people to spend first and worry later.
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of billionaires surveyed use AI for business (everything from legal research to strategy) 🤖 79% use it for everyday tasks like travel planning and writing bedtime stories for their kids. Billionaires, they’re just like us.