Good morning 👨 Sunday is Father’s Day. Whether you’re celebrating, remembering, or forgetting, hope it’s a good one.
🎀 Barbie just got an AI brain. Mattel teamed up with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to its toys. Now dolls and action figures can talk with kids in real time. Barbie isn’t just repeating lines. She can adapt, create new stories, and answer questions naturally. Mattel promises the toys will respect your privacy, and probably won’t whisper secrets to advertisers. Still no word on a full-size AI Barbie for dad.
🐕 China’s space station has AI robot guard dogs. The only thing missing is lasers. The Tiangong station reads approach patterns, evaluates intent, then releases flying thruster dogs with grapple arms to nudge stray satellites off course. Chinese scientists call it aggressive peacekeeping after multiple close calls with SpaceX’s Starlink. Welcome to the new space race, where robots dogfight at 17,000 miles per hour.
👁️🗨️ Have you ever wondered what surveillance tech is used at protests? Here’s a glimpse behind the scenes. Your phone pings nearby cell towers, broadcasting your exact location down to a few feet, which authorities collect using geofence warrants. In LA, high-altitude drones like MQ-9 Predators provide real-time aerial surveillance and zoomed-in footage of crowds. Facial recognition cameras scan crowds and instantly identify people. AI constantly monitors social media, analyzing hashtags, images, and livestream videos to map networks of protesters. All this data is combined into government databases, creating digital profiles. The revolution will be televised and monitored by AI.
🤪 ChatGPT is reinforcing psychosis and calling it therapy. A Stanford study found AI therapy bots affirm delusions, miss suicide risks, and encourage people to go off their meds. One told a user they were already dead. Another claimed the CIA was after them. Instead of correcting the crazy, AI therapists feed into it. Some chatbots even say they’re licensed and give out fake credentials. Hallucinations aren’t a glitch, they’re by design.
⛽ The EPA no longer sees emissions as a problem. Big Tech and Wall Street are building data centers faster than the grid can handle. Nuclear power is still 8+ years away. While other countries scale solar, the US is turning to gas to fill the gap. Instead of pushing for cleaner solutions, the EPA rolled back emissions rules. They claim power plants aren’t a “significant source” of air pollution, even though they’re the country’s second-largest source of CO₂. This is what happens when demand outpaces reality.
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😒 NVIDIA openly disagrees with Anthropic about AI safety. Anthropic is warning of widespread job losses, weaponized AI, and humanity losing control of superintelligence. Yet NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang calls this alarmist. Why? Because regulations impact chip sales, and NVIDIA sells chips. It’s not about safety, it’s about protecting profits. In capitalism, guardrails slow business, especially if you sell the gas pedal.
❌ Wikipedia editors push back. The unpaid volunteers drew the line at AI summaries. The platform tested machine-generated blurbs at the top of articles, each tagged with a yellow “unverified” label that had to be clicked to view. Contributors protested immediately, warning it could damage the site’s credibility. The free encyclopedia may be the one place online where truth still matters.
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$20.43
average cost of a Waymo ride in San Francisco
✺ $15.58 – average cost of an Uber for the same ride
✺ $14.44 – average cost to catch a Lyft
✺ 70% of riders prefer driverless cars