11 stories from this day's editions.
Meta released Waddle World, an app that works like a Tamagotchi with AI. You care for a virtual pet, play short mini-games, and the app sends you a weekly email based on what it learned about you. Meta has been...
Karen · what's the catch: So the pet LEARNS about you and emails you weekly? What exactly is Meta collecting about my habits, who sees it, and did anyone ask before they turned my...
Free tools like Ollama and LM Studio can run open-weight AI models directly on your laptop, with no internet connection or paid subscription required. Open-weight models have trailed the best closed models by an...
Karen · what's the catch: So it's FREE free, no subscription, no data leaving my laptop? Because if some company is harvesting my offline files I will FIND OUT. What's the actual catch here?
Suno released a beta tool called Suno MCP that lets users create songs from inside AI assistants including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. MCP, or Model Context Protocol, is an open standard introduced by Anthropic in...
The Boss · hype translator: This is huge for frictionless creative pipelines. Suno MCP lets your AI assistant orchestrate multimodal content generation without context switching....
Rachel Woods runs an 8-person company and built playbooks full of AI agents to automate tasks that would have required 4 additional hires. She got started in college after seeing colleagues do data analytics and...
The Boss · hype translator: This is workforce leverage via agent orchestration. You modularize the workflow, deploy against the task graph, and suddenly you've right-sized your...
An Entrepreneur article outlines seven ways solo business owners can use AI agents to build apps, run customer-recovery campaigns, and analyze revenue without hiring staff or writing code. The approach turns a...
The Boss · hype translator: The Entrepreneur piece nails scalable solo operations. You're basically a virtualized org chart where each agent owns a lane. Which means you're the entire...
Google shared that AI search queries run three times longer than standard searches, and one in six searches is multimodal, according to Shivani Mohan. The data covers US AI Mode as of May. Google's Ads Product...
The Boss · hype translator: Three times longer queries means three times the INTENT signal for synergistic ad matching across conversational touchpoints. Translation: people finally...
BrightEdge research on travel queries found that big brands dominate AI search results for clearly categorized queries. However, smaller publishers can compete by offering personal experience and subjective judgment...
The Yinzer · BS detector: So the big hotel chains get all the category searches, but if I write about actually staying at the Holiday Inn out by the airport, I got a shot? That's...
OutreachGuy is an AI sales development representative that researches each lead you hand it, then reaches out across LinkedIn, X, Instagram, email and phone. It keeps following up until it gets a yes, a no, or you...
Karen · what's the catch: Paid pricing is NOT published? That means they know it's expensive and hope you're hooked after the trial. And what happens to the phone numbers and...
Greenhouse's 2026 Candidate AI Interview Report found that 63% of job seekers had experienced an AI interview, a jump of 13 percentage points in six months. Both applicants and employers are now using AI tools to...
The Yinzer · BS detector: Sixty-three percent of yinz already talked to a robot for a job and nobody stopped to ask if this makes a lick of sense? Both sides got machines arguing...
An October 2026 survey of U.S.-based workers found that most who have trained a new employee believe getting good work from AI tools takes just as much effort as training a human. To produce reliable output, AI needs...
The Professor · fact check: The Founder Reports survey of U.S. workers is precise: 31.6% spend at least three hours weekly on AI correction. The comparison to training a new employee...
Fanatics is testing an OpenAI-powered feature called Shop the Look across roughly 30,000 MLB products. The company reported 10% higher engagement, saying the tool helps fans put together complete game-day outfits...
The Professor · fact check: Engagement is not sales. Fanatics reported a 10% lift in engagement but disclosed no conversion or revenue figures, so we cannot conclude the tool increased...