Good morning 👋 Next time you experience déjà vu, don’t dismiss it too quickly. An MIT professor says there’s about a 70% chance we’re living in a simulated reality like the Matrix. His reasoning? AI and VR tech are advancing so quickly that hyperrealistic virtual worlds are becoming inevitable. So if today’s especially glitchy, it probably just means ChatGPT pushed an update.
⛔ Reddit is blocking the Internet Archive. Critics say Reddit is erasing history, but there’s more going on here. They already licensed their data to Google and OpenAI. To prevent unauthorized scraping by AI companies they have to block the Wayback Machine. When billion-dollar deals are at stake, history gets paywalled.
💊 What would you pay to give your loved ones a longer life? A startup called Loyal is creating pills designed to help dogs live longer. The FDA-backed drugs work by fixing hormonal and metabolic problems. Loyal’s first pill is already in advanced clinical trials, with over 1300 dogs taking part. If they pull it off, longevity becomes the hottest tech play overnight.
⛰️ NVIDIA’s new AI perfectly simulates reality. Their latest platform, Cosmos, uses “Physical AI” to let robots and autonomous vehicles train in simulations that look and feel exactly like the real world. There, bots can practice millions of scenarios, cramming years of experience into just a few days. Now they can crash endlessly in the metaverse before hitting city streets.
⁉️ WTF is Neurosymbolic AI? It’s a new hybrid AI that blends the pattern-recognition skills of neural networks with the logical, fact-based approach of symbolic AI. In other words, it checks facts instead of guessing. Amazon is already using it in shopping assistants and warehouse robots where hallucinations aren’t an option. Maybe the smartest AI isn’t the one with the best imagination.
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👬 Therapists can now clone your personality. They’re using AI to create digital twins of patients called personas. These virtual clones rehearse therapy sessions, predict emotional reactions, and cut down on experimenting with real people. What’s next? Persona scoring for dating apps, credit reports, and hyper-targeted ads.
🔥 OpenAI is gaslighting you about GPT-5. ChatGPT-5 sucks at a lot of things, and valid criticism is being brushed off as emotional attachment. Users report GPT-5 gives clipped replies, stumbles on basic facts, fumbles punctuation, and ignores user writing styles. For many, professional workflows built around GPT-4 completely broke on the new model. Calling your customers clingy isn’t the flex Sam thinks it is.
🪖 Wikipedia has declared war on AI slop. Editors rolled out a “speedy deletion” rule letting admins instantly purge AI-generated articles and fake citations. The goal is to save Wikipedia’s credibility before it’s swallowed by a tsunami of synthetic nonsense. If we lose Wikipedia to bots, reality becomes whoever hits ‘publish’ fastest.
fun stats
revenue AI companion apps are on track to generate in 2025, with 60 million downloads in the first half of the year. That’s up 88% YoY.
🧺 Finally, a robot we would actually buy.