Good morning 🌱 A startup without a product just raised a $2 billion seed. Mira Murati was OpenAI’s CTO during last year’s boardroom blowup over Altman. Now she’s chasing AGI dreams with an ambitious new AI lab called Thinking Machines. It’s the biggest seed round ever, and nobody can explain why the world needs it.
👍 Reddit wants to scan your eyeballs to prove you’re human. They’re considering Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to fight the flood of bots and fake content. Sure, cutting API access would be simpler. But why go simple when you can grab more data? Reddit’s whole appeal is anonymity. Now “staying anonymous” means permanently linking your biometrics to a crypto wallet.
💬 Apple may have found a way to make Siri relevant again. For years Apple has lagged in AI and search. Now they’re eyeing Perplexity AI, a conversational search startup some say is a potential Google killer. Critics say the AI startup just repackages existing tech and looks good. Yet the move could help Apple regain credibility. Siri may be confused, but at least now she knows who to ask for help.
🦎 Wouldn’t it be cool if we could regrow limbs like salamanders? It’s closer than you think. Scientists just discovered we produce the same chemicals salamanders use to regenerate body parts. Now they’re working on teaching our cells to follow suit. Regrowing entire limbs is a big leap, but scarless healing is within reach. Evolution gave us superpowers like Deadpool, yet left them switched off. Typical.
🎨 AI can restore damaged paintings in hours, not months. An MIT student developed a method that scans a painting, maps the damage, and instantly prints a polymer film to hide imperfections. Conservators apply the mask directly to the artwork. Since it’s removable, nothing permanently changes. Traditional restoration is painstakingly slow. This process is practically instant. Art restoration is now less Da Vinci, more screen protector.
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🕳️ Conspiracy theorists now have their very own AI chatbots. For when reality is just too inconvenient. Fringe groups are training chatbots specifically to validate conspiracy theories, then posting the conversations online as “proof.” One bot, Neo-LLM, was fed over 100,000 conspiracy articles from a far-right website to convince parents vaccines are dangerous. There’s never been a better time to sell tinfoil hats.
😶🌫️ The smarter your AI gets, the more pollution it creates. Researchers have found that bigger, high-performance chatbots generate exponentially more carbon emissions than smaller, simpler models. So-called “reasoning” AIs, which carefully explain answers step by step, use even more energy – without significantly improving accuracy. Maybe the future of AI is efficiency, not raw power.
🚷 Banning AI regulation might actually slow AI down. Microsoft’s chief scientist says clear rules and oversight help research move faster and turn discoveries into useful tech sooner. Without good regulations, we’re more vulnerable to misinformation and misuse, slowing progress instead of speeding it up. Maybe regulation is just a quality filter that keeps AI from learning on junk data.
