| Hi, AI Enthusiast! | Welcome back to the #1 AI newsletter on the planet. | Hereās a glimpse into what we have today: | Nvidia drops AI for self-driving cars. Googleās Gemini is getting a body. AI manga becomes a 2026 best-seller. Fake Maduro images hit 14.1M views in 48 hours. Smart clipper promises mistake-proof fades.
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| Breaking News | The Latest AI Developments | š¦¾Ā Gemini Gets a Body | Boston Dynamics publicly demoed its humanoid robot Atlas for the first time at CES. The production version ships to Hyundai factories in 2028. Google DeepMind signed on to integrate Gemini Robotics into Atlas. Specs: 7.5ft reach, lifts 110lbs, operates from -4°F to 104°F. | š¤Ā xAI Raises $20 Billion | Muskās AI company closed a $20B Series E, beating its $15B target. Nvidia and Cisco joined as strategic investors. The Colossus supercomputer now runs over 1 million H100 GPU equivalents, and Grok 5 is in training. The round values xAI at roughly $230 billion. | šĀ Nvidia Launches Alpamayo | Nvidia unveiled Alpamayo, a family of open-source AI models for self-driving vehicles. The 10B parameter model lets cars reason through complex edge cases like traffic light outages without prior experience. Jensen Huang called it āthe ChatGPT moment for physical AI.ā |
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| Interesting AI | | GLYDE wants to make bad haircuts impossible. | Itās a smart clipper with built-in sensors that track your speed, angle, and motion as you cut. Move too fast and the blade retracts. Tilt wrong and it trims less. | The idea is that even if youāve never held clippers before, you can give yourself a clean fade at home without destroying your hairline. Thereās a band you wear around your head to mark where the fade starts. | The app walks you through each step. Pick a style, follow the guide, done in about 10 minutes. They showed it off at CES and the demos looked surprisingly legit. | |
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| | AI Finds | Beyond the Feed | š NYU Professor Fights AI With AI | An NYU professor started using AI oral exams to catch students submitting AI-written work. Students who wrote their own work pass easily. Those who didnāt canāt explain what they turned in. | š AI Manga Becomes a Best-Seller | One of the best-selling manga in 2026 so far is entirely AI-generated. The series has climbed sales charts in Japan, raising questions about creative authenticity and what counts as authorship in the AI era. | š¤„Ā Viral Reddit Post Was AI-Generated | A viral Reddit post accusing a DoorDash of fraud turned out to be fake. It gained thousands of upvotes before users spotted inconsistencies. A reminder that AI-generated misinformation doesnāt need deepfakes to spread. | šÆĀ AIās Timeline Is Faster Than You Think | Dan Koe says the most valuable skills now arenāt technical. Theyāre meta: learning how to learn, think, and earn. AI is accelerating the need for adaptability. Taste, narrative, and trust are the real moats. | šøĀ Maduro Capture Images Hit 14.1M Views | Within hours of Maduroās capture, AI images flooded X. Maduro in pajamas on a cargo plane. Maduro in a prison jumpsuit before real photos existed. 7 videos alone led to 14.1 million views in two days. |
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