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Adam Wildheart
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Happy Friday 👋 especially to women looking for love. Let’s get real. Some men should come with a warning label. Wouldn’t it be great if you could read reviews before wasting your time? A new app lets women anonymously share experiences and rate their dates. They rave it’s a must-have to avoid cheaters and creeps. Swipe carefully, guys. Your next review might go viral.

🎮 A new AI web protocol is about to transform our world. Called Spatial Web, it uses HSML to give AI agents the ability to control real-world devices like humanoid robots, drones, VR, and wearables. It can be used to help robots navigate complex spaces or operate rovers on the moon. Soon AI could manage entire cities, optimizing traffic, logistics, and energy use in real-time.

Wearable tech is all the rage this season. But instead of recording your chats or tracking sleep, Meta’s wristband reads electrical signals from your muscles and translates them into computer commands. Their latest version doesn’t require personalized training. Anyone can slip it on and immediately start typing or controlling virtual objects. First step, gesture control – next step, remote controlled robots.

🔓 Remember when Tony Stark realized terrorists had his missiles in Iron Man? Banned Nvidia chips worth over $1B have made their way into China despite strict US export controls. Huang denies involvement. He points to distributors in Southeast Asia, where there’s a thriving black market. Why would China settle for Nvidia’s 4th-rate chips when they can score top shelf on the black market?

💰 Musk wants investors to bet big on Tesla bot. With EV sales sliding and profits thin, he’s pitching Optimus as Tesla’s next trillion-dollar jackpot. Small problem though. The humanoid robots are overheating, moving at half speed, and struggling with basic tasks. Meanwhile China is pulling ahead and deploying theirs at scale. One day Optimus might stack boxes… but for now it’s mostly stacking hype.

Automation without limits

n8n is open-source workflow software with over 1,000 integrations including Slack, Google Sheets, CRMs, and APIs. Unlike Zapier, it charges per workflow run instead of per step, so complex automations don’t get expensive.

Why you need it: n8n supports advanced automations like loops, branching, custom code, and direct API calls. You can host it yourself on your own servers for total data privacy. Plus, an active community constantly creates new nodes and ready-to-use templates, making complex workflows easy to launch.

Use it to sync CRM data, automate Slack alerts, build custom AI integrations, or handle repetitive tasks like reporting. Automate smarter, spend less, and control your data completely.

👤 Ever heard of Ambient AI? You will soon. It’s powering a new wave of wearable devices that give you a Jarvis-like personal AI assistant. They’re always on, designed to anticipate your every need and blend into the background of your daily life. It’s affordable too… because they’re capturing your real-world interactions and feeding mountains of fresh, juicy data straight into AI models.

fun stats

$9.5 billion

projected global AI Girlfriend market by 2028, up from $2.8 billion last year.

💋 1 in 5 men on dating apps have tried AI Girlfriend platforms

💋 55% interact with their AI girlfriend daily

💋 Character AI led the market with 97m monthly visits (Mar 2024)

[2025 report via Artsmart.ai]

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