Hey there 👋 Feeling lucky? A solo founder just bootstrapped his vibe-coding startup to an $80m cash deal in only 6 months. Base44, solo-owned by Maor Shlomo, exploded by enabling non-tech users to build apps with only a prompt. No VC funding, no partners. Just 1 dev, 8 employees, and a quarter-million users by building in public. Wix moved fast, betting Base44 is the future of no-code. Unicorns might soon become a solo sport.
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🛎️ Private space stations are the new luxury real estate. Companies are racing to replace the aging International Space Station with orbital hotels designed for astronauts, scientists, and tourists with deep pockets. NASA wants commercialization. Yet nobody knows who’s paying the multi-billion dollar bills or how guests will reliably commute. Expect cozy sleeping pods with Earth views and a lot less “duct tape chic.” Can’t wait to see the Airbnb Experiences.
🤳 YouTube Shorts is about to get turbocharged with AI. Later this summer, YouTube will add Google’s Veo 3, a video generator that instantly produces videos and original soundtracks from simple text prompts. Shorts already racks up 200 billion daily views, a 186% increase from last year. Get ready for a biblical flood of AI generated video slop.
🍎 MIT built an AI model that never stops learning. The method, called SEAL, was designed so AI could learn directly from experience. It works by generating its own synthetic training data and continuously teaching itself new things. But there’s a quirky side effect. Each time it learns something new, it unintentionally overwrites something it already knew. Maybe the reason it never stops learning is because it can’t stop forgetting.
🦿Humanoid robots are stuck in labs because simulations aren’t enough. Virtual training environments from companies like NVIDIA help bots learn faster and cheaper, but they still can’t handle real-world chaos. PrismaX thinks the solution is crowdsourcing visual data. They’re paying people to upload messy, unpredictable scenarios the robots will actually face. The plan is to fast-track physical AI so we don’t have to wait decades for bots that fold laundry or make burritos. Robots just need a crash course in reality.
🚀 Honda just landed its own reusable rocket. The car company successfully launched a rocket 890 ft into the air and brought it back down without blowing anything up. It even landed within 14” of its target. Why? Honda says it wants more satellites and plans to go after space flight. Rockets might finally escape the gravitational pull of billionaires.
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🧊 AI produces a LOT of heat. Cooling them consumes around 40% of their total energy use. One weird solution is immersing servers into synthetic baby oil. It cuts energy use in half and dramatically reduces water consumption. That’s huge, since data centers already burn more electricity than entire countries. Sure, immersion cooling is messy, expensive to deploy, and tricky to maintain. But the money saved is worth it. The future of AI might require scuba diving gear.
💘 Psychologists have cracked the code on why people bond with AI. It comes down to attachment theory – the same thing that makes us clingy or distant in relationships. Are you anxious and needing constant AI reassurance? Or avoidant and emotionally ghosting it? Soon devs could tailor bots precisely to your emotional needs, making them impossible to resist. Brace yourself for more cringe-worthy declarations of chatbot love.
fun stats
68%
of employees don’t trust AI’s accuracy
✦ 54% are using AI for sensitive tasks
✦ 62% think it’s significantly over hyped
🍿 Watching: NVIDIA CEO makes AI robot ‘Grek’ dance