Hey there 👋 Beach season is here, and so is “Domidog” (no it’s not a sex thing). Domino’s new robot dog beach delivery service is specially trained to protect your pizza from seagulls. 1 in 3 beach goers have lost food to these snack pirates, so they unleashed a military-grade Boston Dynamics bot to eliminate the airborne menace.
What to look out for today: Trump drops his AI Action Plan at the “Winning the AI Race” summit. Expect big beautiful promises about infrastructure, zero regulations, and a global push to spread American AI everywhere.
🤨 How would you feel if your boss trained AI on your face? Employees at xAI are being asked to video themselves talking, laughing, and pretending to be friends so Grok can learn human emotion. Even weirder, they had to answer personal questions like “How do you secretly manipulate people?” The future of work is reality TV, where you sign away “perpetual” rights to your likeness.
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🧑🚀 NASA warns budget cuts could put astronauts’ lives at risk. Nearly 300 current and former NASA employees, including several astronauts, signed a formal letter saying recent budget decisions compromise safety. They pointed straight to past tragedies, warning silence and rushed changes could repeat devastating mistakes. Good luck getting to Mars on a shoestring budget.
🤑 Telegram just turned 87 million Americans into crypto users overnight. Its built-in TON Wallet lets people send crypto as easily as texting a friend. It even supports zero-fee token swaps, stablecoin transfers, and instant crypto purchases through MoonPay. Welcome to the future, where getting scammed out of crypto is as easy as drunk-texting your ex.
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🇺🇲 America wants to reshore AI chip manufacturing yet lags behind. Korea, Taiwan, and Japan have the most advanced semiconductors. Why? According to Nigel Toon, CEO of Graphcore, it’s because they still take pride in quality manufacturing. The US doesn’t have the culture or craftsmanship to build them right. Soon US tech supremacy could be stuck in customs.
🦾 China’s about to start subsidizing humanoid robots. Bold move. The fastest way to collect tons of real-world data is getting bots in people’s homes. Imagine EV incentives – but instead of cleaner cars, China gets smarter AI. Because whoever owns the data, owns the future.
fun stats
325%
amount xAI’s daily gross revenue jumped after launching Grok 4 on iOS (July 9). It jumped to $419k, up from $99k on the day before the launch.
Despite curiosity about Grok’s unfiltered AI companions, revenue only increased 9% after their launch (July 14).
[Appfigures via TechCrunch]
🤸 That’s not scary at all: Walker S2 is the world’s 1st humanoid robot capable of swapping it’s own battery out