Good morning to all you music lovers 👋 Everyone knows that music can move us. Researchers in Japan say it can alter our genetics, too. They played audible sounds to mice cells and found more than 100 genes changed their activity. Muscle cells became stronger. Fat cells slowed their growth. Looks like your friend with the singing bowls might be onto something.
🙈 Someone made a phone that does absolutely nothing. Nothing Phone 3 drops today, but the phone everyone’s going ape for is even more minimal. The Methaphone is a clear slab of acrylic shaped like a smartphone, created to help break your real phone addiction. It lets you pull it out and mindlessly scroll nothing, easing your dopamine habit the way methadone eases heroin cravings. Sure, it sounds ridiculous, but the first batch sold out instantly.
💸 Hype is one thing. Promising 100,000 startups a year is… Audos. The 5 person studio gives non-technical founders up to $25k upfront, AI tools, and marketing support in exchange for a 15% lifetime revenue share. They’ve already launched hundreds of micro-startups. To hit 100K, they’d need to launch 274 startups daily and fund upwards of $2.5 billion. If this works, everyone will be an entrepreneur.
👤 Denmark is giving people copyright over their own likeness. With AI deepfakes on the rise, the government says your body, face, and voice legally belong to you. The culture minister made it clear humans need to be protected from becoming misused digital clones. Congrats, you’re no longer public domain.
🎞️ “Ethical” AI-gen storytellers look to disrupt Hollywood. Most AI is trained on other people’s unlicensed work. Asteria wants artists and filmmakers to train AI on their own sketches and distinct style. The goal is to help creators rapidly build entire worlds that match their voice – with smaller teams and lower production costs. Hollywood finally found something cheaper than interns.
🦾 China is dominating the race to build humanoid robots. The government is pouring billions into robotics, rapidly scaling supply chains and testing bots in real-world settings as they prep to flood global markets with low-cost humanoids. It’s the same playbook that took drones from niche gadgets to global necessities, leaving the US scrambling.
🫧 The data center gold rush is starting to feel like a bubble. Investors are pumping billions into massive facilities, betting the AI boom won’t slow down. Lux Capital’s Josh Wolfe warns we’ve seen this movie before with fiber optics and drones. Too much hype, too much cash, too little patience. When everyone rushes in, smart money starts edging toward the door.
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🌵MIT just turned desert air into drinking water. Researchers tested hydrogel domes in Death Valley, pulling safe drinking water straight from the atmosphere in the driest spot in America. It’s small scale for now, but arrays of these window-sized devices could someday deliver household water to billions. Today Death Valley, tomorrow your supermarket bottled water aisle.
👃 Wondering what happens if you snort Moon dust? Australian “researchers” ran a blind taste test to find out. Turns out it’s irritating enough to make you sneeze, yet far less toxic than feared. It’s even safer than breathing regular Earth dust. Good news for astronauts heading back to the Moon. Technically you could snort Moon dust and survive – but you’ll probably sneeze all the way back to Earth.
🤠 We’re watching: China’s humanoid robot cowboy “Jake the Rizzbot” running around Austin