Real luxury is waking with a quiet mind
Wealth can have little to do with possessions: real luxury is waking without an inner battle, with a healthy body and a peaceful mind.
Eleven traits associated with future wealth
Work ethic, an openness to sales and marketing, professional networking and building a personal brand are among eleven characteristics associated with future wealth. This is a subjective view of success rather than a guarantee of financial outcomes.
Strategic laziness in the age of AI
Postpone a difficult project in anticipation of better AI: a future model might finish it in one attempt, sooner than we could complete it ourselves.
Success means outlasting uncertainty
The ability to live with uncertainty may be the decisive factor in success: the person who can tolerate not having clear answers for the longest would eventually prevail.
39 business ideas around AI
Among 39 business ideas, many centred on AI assistants, are insurance for their mistakes, purchase safeguards, memory that moves between services, and licensing for faces and voices. These are proposed ventures rather than a catalogue of available products.
Dessa aims for more natural voice conversations
Dessa is a speech model designed to speak and listen simultaneously, with emotion, nuance, pauses and natural cadence. Voice is presented as the most natural way to interact with artificial intelligence.
Prime editing reaches trials inside the human body
The first administration of PM577a for Wilson disease has been reported. Prime Medicine is evaluating safety and efficacy.
New UFO files on sightings near US military sites
New White House UFO files reportedly describe black triangular craft spotted over sensitive US military sites that allegedly travelled 1.5 miles in under three seconds. The text does not link to the cited documents.
Meditate or fall asleep: a win either way
Meditating in bed can be a win either way: staying awake means meditating, while drifting off means sleeping. @naval inspires this small shift in perspective.
Change can be part of moving towards something better
When you have asked for something better, seeing everything shift can be part of that process, rather than a sign that things are going wrong.
Nasdaqistan: a day of seemingly overwhelming news
Reports about supposed alchemy, security vulnerabilities and tanker strikes pile up into an overload satirically called Nasdaqistan, mixing market language with a joke about the day’s absurdity.
If gold were produced from mercury, it could be good for Bitcoin
After years without a bullish view, a favourable case for Bitcoin returns: if gold really is being produced from mercury, that could be good news for BTC.
Microsoft’s AI tackles difficult medical cases
MAI-DxO is Microsoft’s system for comparing diagnostic hypotheses. In tests using complex cases published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Microsoft reports more than twice the accuracy of physicians with access to textbooks and the internet. The comparison concerns this benchmark.
An app where bored billionaires swipe to pay your bills
Imagine an app where people upload their bills and bored billionaires swipe right to pay them. It is a playful proposal, rather than an announcement of an existing service.
AI results depend largely on the intelligence of the user
An unpopular opinion: the results people get from artificial intelligence depend largely on how intelligent they are.
Trust in traditional news outlets, criticised without specific examples
Trusting traditional news is mocked as surprising. The criticism remains broad, without identifying any particular report or outlet.
AI without instructions may favour the curious
Artificial intelligence is like a superpower delivered without instructions: that lack of a manual may be precisely what gives curious people an advantage.
After 2030, from scarcity to abundance
An old world built on fear and scarcity could give way, after 2030, to a future shaped by curiosity and abundance. It is a hopeful vision rather than an established forecast.
A salute to everyone who shared time at the computer
An honour to have shared the experience of using the computer.
Frontier tech startups will become philosophy
Working on frontier technology startups will become indistinguishable from doing philosophy.
Good health and having your mum alive are not guaranteed
Do not take two things for granted: having no health problems and having your mum still alive. Be grateful for both.
Hackers should erase everyone’s loans, mortgages and debts
Hackers should raise their game by erasing everyone’s loans, mortgages and bad credit records: a comic fantasy about debt disappearing.
When coincidences lose their whimsical charm
Synchronicities are cute when they happen every three months. When they happen this often, the joke goes, by lunchtime you would want a lie-down rather than feel enchanted.
Fractals as a service: is anyone building this?
Fractals as a service: is anyone building this? There is no further specification, just the idea of finding someone who might be working on it.
AI reflects the curiosity of its users
Used lazily, AI produces lazy results; used with curiosity, it can offer metaphorical superpowers.
Nobody is an expert in the future, so start building
Nobody has twenty years of experience in what comes next. Everyone is learning, and the field is wide open: stop waiting and start building something.
Our Picks
Ideas, videos and reflections that caught our eye. Every card links to the original content and its author.
A 3D robotic hand taken apart into 2,317 pieces with Kimi
crystalsssup describes asking Kimi K3.1 to build a 3D website that takes a robotic hand apart into 2,317 pieces, and gives a positive assessment of the resulting project.
Real luxury is waking with a quiet mind
Wealth can have little to do with possessions: real luxury is waking without an inner battle, with a healthy body and a peaceful mind.
Filmmaking with AI still needs creative taste
AI does not replace a director's judgement about pacing, atmosphere and emotion. BytePlusGlobal presents Volcano High as an AI filmmaking experiment involving Tom Tykwer, Bonn Park and Sarika Hemi Lakhani.
Living rather than simply lasting
Use the time we have rather than spending it trying to extend it. The thought accompanies an earlier post contrasting living with merely existing.
What-if videos for advertising
Adverts that start with hypothetical scenarios, such as a zombie apocalypse, and introduce the product at the end. With tools such as Higgsfield’s Content Factory, this format could let one person run an entire campaign.
Eleven traits associated with future wealth
Work ethic, an openness to sales and marketing, professional networking and building a personal brand are among eleven characteristics associated with future wealth. This is a subjective view of success rather than a guarantee of financial outcomes.
Strategic laziness in the age of AI
Postpone a difficult project in anticipation of better AI: a future model might finish it in one attempt, sooner than we could complete it ourselves.
Success means outlasting uncertainty
The ability to live with uncertainty may be the decisive factor in success: the person who can tolerate not having clear answers for the longest would eventually prevail.
Dessa, a human-sounding artificial voice
Dessa is presented as an answer to doubts that AI voices could ever feel human. jack introduces the speech model as offering conversation with emotion, pauses and a natural cadence.
39 business ideas around AI
Among 39 business ideas, many centred on AI assistants, are insurance for their mistakes, purchase safeguards, memory that moves between services, and licensing for faces and voices. These are proposed ventures rather than a catalogue of available products.
A strikingly human voice and the future of AI relationships
Dessa’s strikingly human voice could signal the future of relationships between people and AI. Jack attributes emotion, nuance and a natural conversational rhythm to the model.
Dessa aims for more natural voice conversations
Dessa is a speech model designed to speak and listen simultaneously, with emotion, nuance, pauses and natural cadence. Voice is presented as the most natural way to interact with artificial intelligence.
New White House release of UFO material
A new White House release of UFO material links to a dedicated page on WAR.GOV. The accompanying video does not describe the released material in its text.
Prime editing reaches trials inside the human body
The first administration of PM577a for Wilson disease has been reported. Prime Medicine is evaluating safety and efficacy.
New UFO files on sightings near US military sites
New White House UFO files reportedly describe black triangular craft spotted over sensitive US military sites that allegedly travelled 1.5 miles in under three seconds. The text does not link to the cited documents.
See first, believe later: the universe’s reply
Humans insist on seeing before believing; the universe answers with laughter. A joke about our demand for proof.
Was an airport display board in Sicily coded with AI?
Was an airport display board in Sicily coded using AI? The joke invokes vibe coding, without offering an account of how the system was actually built.
Meditate or fall asleep: a win either way
Meditating in bed can be a win either way: staying awake means meditating, while drifting off means sleeping. @naval inspires this small shift in perspective.
The Venus rose as a symbolic turning point
The Venus rose can be read through astrology, alchemy and esoteric symbolism. In this spiritual reading of Venus’s cycle, a shift from Scorpio to Libra would mark a new era and a rebirth of light.
Prime editing reaches trials inside the human body
The first PM577a dose has been given for Wilson disease. Prime Medicine is assessing safety and efficacy.
The idea of a phone that becomes a robot
A video presents the idea of a phone that becomes a robot, without identifying the device or explaining how it works or what it can do.
Change can be part of moving towards something better
When you have asked for something better, seeing everything shift can be part of that process, rather than a sign that things are going wrong.
A whole game, video and song made with Opus 5.5
An entire game, video and song were reportedly made with Opus 5.5. The game is described as enjoyable to play, and a link is available for anyone interested.
Nasdaqistan: a day of seemingly overwhelming news
Reports about supposed alchemy, security vulnerabilities and tanker strikes pile up into an overload satirically called Nasdaqistan, mixing market language with a joke about the day’s absurdity.
Bitchat reportedly topped France’s App Store
Bitchat reportedly topped France’s App Store amid protests and unrest. The app associated with Jack Dorsey is described as a way to send bitcoin without internet access and as a win for offline technology.
Marathon Fusion says it has turned mercury into gold
Marathon Fusion says it has produced gold from mercury by transforming elements. One constraint remains: the waiting time associated with radioactivity in the resulting material.
Alleged chess cheating with Ray-Ban Meta glasses and AI
A video describes an alleged case of cheating at chess using Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, AI and a MacBook. The brief text does not identify the player or explain the context of the game.
If gold were produced from mercury, it could be good for Bitcoin
After years without a bullish view, a favourable case for Bitcoin returns: if gold really is being produced from mercury, that could be good news for BTC.
Microsoft’s AI tackles difficult medical cases
MAI-DxO is Microsoft’s system for comparing diagnostic hypotheses. In tests using complex cases published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Microsoft reports more than twice the accuracy of physicians with access to textbooks and the internet. The comparison concerns this benchmark.
Animated Fable 5.1 stories: 20.1 million views in 17 days
Every video reportedly has over a million views. Animated stories made with Fable 5.1 reportedly reached 20.1 million views in 17 days. These are the authors’ reported figures.
An app where bored billionaires swipe to pay your bills
Imagine an app where people upload their bills and bored billionaires swipe right to pay them. It is a playful proposal, rather than an announcement of an existing service.
AI results depend largely on the intelligence of the user
An unpopular opinion: the results people get from artificial intelligence depend largely on how intelligent they are.
BitChat tops France’s App Store social networking category
In France, GrablyR describes BitChat as an encrypted messaging app independent of mobile networks, reporting it first in the App Store’s social networking category and in the overall top ten.
Trust in traditional news outlets, criticised without specific examples
Trusting traditional news is mocked as surprising. The criticism remains broad, without identifying any particular report or outlet.
AI without instructions may favour the curious
Artificial intelligence is like a superpower delivered without instructions: that lack of a manual may be precisely what gives curious people an advantage.
After 2030, from scarcity to abundance
An old world built on fear and scarcity could give way, after 2030, to a future shaped by curiosity and abundance. It is a hopeful vision rather than an established forecast.
A salute to everyone who shared time at the computer
An honour to have shared the experience of using the computer.
An open-source humanoid robot kit to build yourself
Asimov 1 is described by the company as an open-source design supplied as a complete DIY kit for $20,000, including delivery.
If gold could be manufactured rather than mined
Marathon Fusion claims to have made gold from mercury. Jokingly, manufacturing the metal rather than mining it could change its value.
Frontier tech startups will become philosophy
Working on frontier technology startups will become indistinguishable from doing philosophy.
Good health and having your mum alive are not guaranteed
Do not take two things for granted: having no health problems and having your mum still alive. Be grateful for both.
Hackers should erase everyone’s loans, mortgages and debts
Hackers should raise their game by erasing everyone’s loans, mortgages and bad credit records: a comic fantasy about debt disappearing.
When coincidences lose their whimsical charm
Synchronicities are cute when they happen every three months. When they happen this often, the joke goes, by lunchtime you would want a lie-down rather than feel enchanted.
A collection of AI devices worth watching
Two months of work went into collecting AI hardware projects considered worth seeing. Each entry links to the product’s official website and GitHub repository.
Fractals as a service: is anyone building this?
Fractals as a service: is anyone building this? There is no further specification, just the idea of finding someone who might be working on it.
Tim Cook would be turning in his grave over apps on iPhone Duo
Given the current state of apps on iPhone Duo, Tim Cook would be turning in his grave. The joke responds to MKBHD’s post on the subject.
Macrofying is credited with its own microscopic optics
Macrofying is credited with inventing its own microscopic optics. The accompanying image is simply described as a printer printing onto paper.
Designers’ jobs are safe if they are really good
Designers’ jobs could be safe, provided they are really good. The visual inspiration is avstorm’s video about Apple Music’s new identity.
The 1978 Bang & Olufsen headphones that still look futuristic
The Bang & Olufsen U70 headphones from 1978 somehow look more futuristic than most headphones made today.
Seedance 2.5 at $0.039 per second, if it’s real
Sunra_ai advertises Seedance 2.5 at a starting rate of $0.039 per second, if the price is real.
The fun starts with simply moving around
Even simply moving around in the game can be great fun. A video accompanies this brief observation about the gameplay experience.
A website reacts when a magnet comes near
The Libraries website responds to a nearby magnet, connecting a physical gesture to what happens on screen.
A virtual watch to wind, open and explore
Interactive everyday machines to take apart and explore, developed with Claude: the latest addition is a virtual mechanical watch that, according to its creator, can be wound and opened to observe its inner workings.
Free food but no robots: a paradox
In a cartoon, a man calls for free food, then refuses a crate of vegetables offered by a robot and insists that abundance should require human labour. The joke targets the apparent contradiction between wanting abundance and opposing the artificial intelligence depicted as helping to produce it.
A Roadster game with thrusters and aerial rolls
A Subway Surfers-style game featuring a Tesla Roadster with thrusters, reportedly built by Opus 5.5. Players score for near misses and jumping off trucks, and can perform aerial rolls.
The end of low-quality human-made products? A provocation
Low-quality human-made products may be nearing their end, in a provocative prediction. nathanclark’s project reportedly replaced Samsung Smart Hub with a custom TV home screen that is already working while undergoing further refinement.
Homes may welcome characters, not machines
People may welcome a character into their homes rather than a machine. The thought is prompted by Voxel, presented as a droid butler made by Tuesday Labs.
A simulator recreates light seen through narrowed eyes
A visual simulation inspired by the effects of light when we narrow our eyes explores interference and diffraction through moving images.