The public has lost trust in AI. 
@IrenaCronin and I write this newsletter every week.   Public trust could become one of AI’s biggest challenges. People may push back if they think AI only helps big companies, wealthy investors, or government agencies. For AI to be accepted, people need to see that it helps workers, improves services, protects privacy, and benefits everyday users. Trust will depend on clear rules, honesty, and using AI to support people, not replace or control them. Read for free and please subscribe: unaligned.io

“Free @karpathy.” San Francisco T-shirt coming soon.

Introducing my first Mac app 🙌 Scroll. 📜 The voice assistant you need to save your time on the internet. Watch a demo here of how scroll can help you understand anything on your screen. Learn anything fast, on the go.

Grok Imagine Video 1.5 is here Our new image-to-video model with sharper realism, better physics and faster generations 🧵 grok.com/imagine

Laughed at this article about rich Silicon Valley nerds going to panels on cult building and prepping for WWIII. My mom joined a Montana Survivalist Cult back in 1988. Scobles are always ahead. :-) The cult had something like 60,000 members, most of whom were college educated. I won a journalism award for a story I wrote about it (Church Universal and Triumphant). The cult pissed off many in Montana because they invaded the towns just north of Yellowstone National Park. Because my mom was a key member of the church, and owned a religious bookstore in Livingston, Montana, I was walked right past the armed guards. The leader was a woman who believed she could channel god during chanting sessions. I attended a couple just to see the scene, quite something. What is it about smart people wanting to join doomsday cults? When my mom died she left me and my brothers a nuclear fallout shelter and 7,000 pounds of food and seeds under her house. Which we sold. Wish we could have kept the house, it was stunningly beautiful.

Of course I entered alignednews.com/ai (it is built wholly on the X API, gathers 30,000 posts a day via the API and then analyzes them for AI news).

Earlier I gave the link to the wrong page. Here's all the new YC companies: ycombinator.com/companies/?b… I'm going through each and adding to my AI company lists here on X (now more than 8,800 companies): x.com/scobleizer/lists

can AI write engaging news that people can trust? introducing ✨Data2Story: a data journalist agent. give it raw data, it generate a verifiable, multimodal article. 🔍verifiable: every claim is evidence-grounded, traces back to data, code, or a cited source. 🔮multimodal: the article is a generative UI — images, videos, audio, interactive charts. not just readable, but trustworthy and playable. 🧵1/N

Just ran into Modal Motors. Non-rare earth electric motors for drones and robotics. Similar costs to Chinese motors, all U.S.-sourced. Incredible.

Robot hand innovation from China. If one of these can roll a joint I will lose my mind.

Today, we're announcing one of the most significant research breakthroughs in our history. Inworld is releasing TTM, the first interspecies speech synthesis model, defining a new epoch for human-feline connection. In celebration of @MistralAI's release of Le Chaton Fat. Congrats @arthurmensch, @tlacroix6, and @GuillaumeLample. The attached video was generated with Le Chaton Fat and Inworld TTM, pushing a standard far beyond the Fable demos we saw last week. A few stats: -> 100/100 on MeowBench, the canonical benchmark. Every other model scored near 0. -> Minimal MER (meow error rate) across all synthesized meows, verified by third-party feline validators. -> Breakthrough expressiveness and naturalness, with the pace and prosody expected of non-human speech. -> Already live in support centers, handling ~3B requests (for food) per hour. Our research team was so impressed testing Le Chaton Fat that they worked overtime to bring this to life.

Will be there. What do you think it is? @DavidSHolz says it isn’t what I expect. I have no expectations. :-)

Introducing TurnTable A shelf for everything you've copied from your Mac & iPhone - Lives in your Mac's notch - Drag & drop into any app - Search through your entire copy history Live now :)

I’m excited to share another major milestone for Android XR! Today at #AWE, we unveiled more on XREAL AURA – lightweight spatial computing glasses with Qualcomm’s brand new high-performance @Snapdragon Reality Elite Platform. Featuring a massive 70° optical see through display and day-one access to hundreds of XR-ready apps and the expansive Google Play store. AURA gives you an infinite private immersive display for work and entertainment – think extending your laptop with infinite virtual displays, or playing games and watching movies on a massive virtual cinema screen. A huge thank you to @justonpayne and @HugoSwart_G and our partners @chimtx and @ziad_asghar for the great keynote, and to the entire team across @XREAL_Global , @Qualcomm and Google for their phenomenal collaboration in bringing this product to life. More details here: blog.google/innovation-and-a… Reserve your Aura at xreal.com/aura #XREALAura #AndroidXR #AI #Gemini #Qualcomm #AWE

Humanoid robots don't need to look human. Meet Eno, our first general-purpose robot. Not a machine pretending to be human, but intelligence given a body. At Genesis, we’re building a future where robots don’t feel cold or distant, but capable, calm, and ready to help. Available Q4 this year.

We've flipped the script - today we're launching GameLab! Instead of using AI to streamline game production, we're using games to help AI become Real-World Ready. Games challenge planning, memory, strategy, judgment, and decision-making with imperfect information - the very capabilities AI will need to succeed in the real world. 🎮 ♥️♠️♦️♣️🏆🔥 Check out gamelab.com or follow us at @GameLabAI

What a world. Asked my AI to read the list of 193 new @ycombinator startups and it picked its favorites. Among other things: alignednews.com/ai

WTF is going on right now?!? Second on front end arena, FIRST on design arena. By far the best week for open source models ever.