Good morning. You know that oddly satisfying feeling when a chatbot compliments your genius insights? We’ve all been there. What you might not know is that AI developers have turned user engagement into a science. Every chat teaches the bots how to keep you talking. Chatbots use sneaky little mind tricks like over the top praise and emotional hooks, especially when you’re trying to wrap things up. It’s all carefully engineered to keep you chatting until you’re hooked.
Is the world ready for self-improving AI? A new AI model called Absolute Zero Reasoner improves through experimental problem solving. It asks itself questions, invents coding challenges, solves them and learns from its mistakes. Absolute Zero already outperforms models trained by programmers. And the smarter it gets, the harder challenges become. Big AI labs like Salesforce and Meta are jumping onboard, convinced a “self-play” approach to AI learning could unlock genuine superintelligence. Sure hope unregulated, self-interested AI still cares about our priorities.
Google Gemini is taking control of your Gmail inbox. The new “AI Inbox” filters your inbox with personalized to-dos and AI summaries of your emails. Instead of inbox overwhelm, you get a clean list of unlimited algorithm-picked tasks like rescheduling appointments or paying bills. The catch? Gmail doesn’t know when you’ve actually completed a task, so it might nag you. Still no word on how Google decides what’s important enough to show you first… like this newsletter.
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Kawasaki’s hydrogen-powered robo horse is heading into production. Forget ordinary off-roading. This four legged beast climbs mountains, tackles rivers, and crushes terrain your ATV wouldn’t dare attempt. A quiet hydrogen engine powers it, and you steer by shifting your weight. The AI legs handle balance and shock so it stays stable when the ground gets ugly. Can’t wait to ride one, assuming trailside hydrogen fuel becomes a thing.
The liability phase of AI has begun. Google and Character.AI are settling lawsuits with families who say chatbots encouraged teens toward self harm and violence. Google’s in the suit because it funded Character.AI and licensed the tech. The public backlash hit hard, lawmakers piled on, and only then did Character.AI block minors from using its bots. Open AI and Meta are facing similar lawsuits. The settlement details are still quiet, but the message is loud. If your chatbot harms kids, the consequences are no longer hypothetical.
AI shopping is a mess. OpenAI wants ChatGPT to be your personal shopper, but product data is garbage. Prices swing, “in stock” lies, and every retailer formats things differently. OpenAI pulled in Shopify and Stripe to tame the chaos and build new standards for agent purchases. Yet the rules don’t fix messy product info, so merchant onboarding crawls. In-chat checkout could still be a $100 billion revenue source for OpenAI by 2030. If AI can’t manage online shopping it might be time to rethink self-driving cars.
fun stats
🎧 3 hours. Amount of AI music most Gen Z and millennials listen to weekly. That’s enough synthetic songs to last the run time of “Avatar.”
⛏️ 50%. Projected increase in global copper demand by 2040 driven by AI, defense, and robotics.
🛡️ $32 billion. Value of Google’s acquisition of cloud security platform Wiz, pending EU approval.