Good morning. You know AI is advancing quickly when Apple sends veteran devs to vibe coding bootcamps. Apple’s Siri team is infamous for moving slowly and getting tangled in politics. Now they’re sending 200 of their best to master a skill so basic even children can do it. Apple’s betting that personal iphone agents are the future, and they need their top engineers to be able to write code faster. Better than sending Tim Cook to leadership camp.
We’ve seen the future, and it’s a beanie that reads your mind. Silicon Valley startup Sabi has come out of stealth with a hat that turns your thoughts directly into text. The beanie uses EEG tech packed with 100,000 tiny sensors, decoding inner speech at around 30 words per minute. OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla predicts billions of people might soon ditch keyboards for brain signals. And yes, your neural data stays encrypted. Good news, since your next accidental Slack message might go straight from your brain to your boss. (Wired)
OpenAI is coming for pharma’s biggest cash cow. Drug discovery is slow, expensive, and extremely profitable. It takes up to 15 years and billions of dollars to bring a single drug to market, with only 1 in 10 making it through trials. OpenAI’s latest move is GPT-Rosalind, an AI model built to fast track research tasks like generating hypotheses and crunching biological data. Scientists warn that AI trained on biological data could speed up dangerous pathogen design. On the bright side, when AI takes over pharma, it’ll price gouge us far more efficiently. (Axios)
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Anthropic rolls out Claude Opus 4.7 and promises this version won’t destroy the world (yet). Redditors immediately called foul, accusing Anthropic of secretly throttling Claude 4.6 for months just to stage a heroic comeback with the “new” 4.7. Is this actually a meaningful upgrade, or is Anthropic just pulling the oldest trick in the marketing book?
Nvidia is stacking the deck in their favor (again). They’re pushing a new token economics structure called “cost per token.” Don’t be surprised if this turns into a blockchain token, because it works in similar ways to mining. Instead of traditional metrics like computing power or hardware pricing, Nvidia says the only thing that matters is how efficiently hardware generates AI output. Tokens. Conveniently, their new Blackwell platform delivers tokens 35x cheaper than older systems, turning legacy setups into budget killers. Good thing Nvidia would never invent a standard just to boost its own profits. (Nvidia)
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AI shopping agents are a financial disaster waiting to happen. These bots shop faster than people ever could, flooding merchants with purchases – and then overwhelming them with refunds and expensive chargebacks. Payment processors built decades ago can’t handle the sudden flood of simultaneous refund requests, forcing them to rethink fees for AI shopping. Companies racing to automate commerce skipped the part where they checked if existing infrastructure could keep up. Your credit card might soon pay the price for Silicon Valley’s latest untested beta. (The Information)
fun stats
🍫 50,000 tons. Celleste Bio’s 2035 goal for lab grown cocoa butter, about 5% of the chocolate industry’s yearly needs. The tech startup grows cocoa cells by feeding them sugar, basically giving chocolate its own candy diet.
🛻 18%. Share of Tesla’s Q4 Cybertrucks bought by Musk’s SpaceX. Without Elon buying from Elon, sales would drop by half. Musk promised investors 250,000 trucks a year; reality is closer to 20,000. Oops.
♻️ 30%. Amount of recycled materials in all Apple products shipped in 2025. New gear like the MacBook Neo hits 60%.