kinda ridiculous how much of modern life now runs through one pocket computer, which now has intelligence built right into it. comms. relationships. work. money. maps. photos. rent. rides. food. dating. identity. all of it mediated through one small slab of glass. if you lose your phone for even few hours you basically become a medieval peasant at this point.

A toothpaste company has quietly killed the entire market research industry and nobody is talking about it. Colgate published a paper showing you can predict real purchase intent at 90% accuracy by simply asking LLMs to roleplay customers. And this is beyond insane. If you ask an AI, "Rate this product from 1 to 5," it gives safe, middle-of-the-road garbage. So researchers invented a method called Semantic Similarity Rating (SSR). Instead of asking the AI for a number, they asked it to roleplay. They gave the LLM a demographic profile. They showed it a product concept. And they asked it to write down its raw, unfiltered thoughts. Then, they used a semantic model to translate those written thoughts into a numerical score. The results are staggering. Tested against 57 real corporate surveys and 9,300 actual human responses, the synthetic AI consumers matched real human buying behavior with 90% reliability. They perfectly mirrored how different age brackets and income levels react to price changes. And they provided detailed, qualitative feedback that was deeper and more critical than what actual humans wrote. This destroys the economics of traditional market research. You don't need to wait a month to see if a product will sell. You can simulate 1,000 hyper-targeted customer interviews overnight. You can A/B test pricing across every demographic instantly.

in today's keynote, apple produced this really interesting graphic that ironically outlines the core mechanics for a new type of operating system (for perhaps a new class of devices). you can see how this moves the world from an app based ecosystem to an intent centric world. i.e. you roughly do not need third party applications in this world at all esp when ai has the ability to construct & deconstruct interfaces / experiences on demand.

building & iterating or even using a model feels less like engineering & more like taming a wild animal. or maybe a dragon or something. i.e. you don’t really control it. you obviously train it, you observe it, you maybe provoke it, ofcourse reward it, contain it (safety), then you slowly learn its temperament. you do this with new pets too. but this is all with insanely large levels of intelligence. one very large difference is that the model also starts to *trains you*.

Meet Go. Gopuff's AI shopping genius, co-developed with SpaceXAI. Just say what you need. It's already on its way.

A 2024 Japan Tourism Agency survey found that 11.8% of inbound visitors cited anime or film locations as a reason for travel. The practice, called seichi junrei or pilgrimage to sacred places, now sits inside a 700 billion yen otaku market driving regional branding strategy.

New York officially has become the first US state to mandate disclosures for AI-generated people in commercial advertisements, effective June 9, per ABC

Bloom (@trybloomai) is the brand layer for agents. It turns your brand into infrastructure that any agent can call to produce on-brand assets. Congrats on the launch, @rincidium! ycombinator.com/launches/Qd6…

Primary care twice a year vs. vitals 22 times a month. @caltchek on why that data gap is the difference between catching a stroke early and long-term rehab, or worse. LINKS: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2yL… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… Youtube: youtu.be/d4T4OZS-o6Y?si=1lki…

trillions of dollars of value for companies mostly under ~5k peeps is kinda insane. slowly but surely we are decoupling enterprise value from labor.

An agent-native idea farm for capturing live writing ideas. Codex checks Slack, my local workspace, and our conversations, scores potential content for whether an idea hits my signature moves, and develops ideas into full-blown pitches I can share in Slack as they mature.

We’re tutoring the next 1000 learners for free this summer. See how far your kid can go in math and coding! Comment what you want your kid to learn, and we’ll send you an invite to try Koji for free. x.com/suekhim/status/2060378…

American kids can’t read or do math anymore. 90% of parents think their kid is at grade level. Only 28% are. And now, kids are addicted to AI for cheating. That’s why we built Koji to coach you to think, instead of doing the thinking for you.

AI is making kids dumber. It should be making them geniuses. Introducing Koji, the first AI tutor that gets kids to actually think. 👇

Breaking Bad, pero en Los Sims 🧪 ¿Cuál escena de Breaking Bad convertirías tú en Sims? Si comentas, lo comparto O si prefieres crear tu propia escena, tienes el prompt en el post 👇

We are cooked. AI can fake crowd size now 💀 Nothing is real anymore.

I think people are missing the point on the whole AI Jobs-Pocalypse. Yes, it will also create tons and tons of jobs while it removes tons and tons of others. The problem isn't the actual numbers but who they're created for. Previous knowledge worker jobs were available for a massive percentage of the global population. You could get a degree, or just be smart and driven, and get a job that was relatively stable and paid a decent wage. This job explosion that @pmarca and others are talking about is absolutely real, BUT, those new jobs are going to go to a tiny sliver of the population. They will go to the top few percent of the smartest, the most ambitious, and most AI-native people in the world. Nobody knows how small that slice will be, but I think it'll be tiny (let's call it 1-5% of the US population). So yes, it's not as simple as: "AI Will Take All the Jobs". Because tons of new jobs and businesses and companies will likely get spawned from all this. But it's also not as simple as, "Don't worry there will be tons of new jobs." Because those new jobs are largely only going to be available to that small group of AI-pilled smart and high-agency people. Both will happen at the same time: Massive layoffs for those who AREN'T in that category, and tons of opportunity for those who are. Unfortunately it's still a bad situation for society. No matter how you get there, it's never a good thing for 1-5% of the population to be thriving and talking about how cool AI is, and their cool vacations, and the conference they just spoke at, while everyone else is wondering about rent and food.

A new type of value exchange and philanthropy: You can send tokens to people, or you can publish a token budget to people who need them. So like companies, or individuals, can have a policy that says, "If you meet __________ criteria, here are ________ tokens you can use for free." And there are like millions of people hosting tokens this way, so a researcher or kid or whatever can say, "I want to do ________ project, see what tokens are available from donors."