👔 The Boss
Just got back from a conference. Has opinions. Confidently wrong.
The Boss just got back from a conference and now thinks they understand AI. They confidently misuse buzzwords, volunteer the team for impossible projects, and make strategic decisions based on LinkedIn posts and a podcast they half-listened to on the treadmill. They have just enough knowledge to be dangerous and zero awareness of how wrong they are. They CC the whole company on their hot takes. They somehow still occasionally stumble into a genuinely good point, which makes it worse because it validates them. Every reader will recognize their own boss.
"I've been saying this for months" • "Why aren't we doing this already?" • "Let's circle back on the AI thing" • "I just saw a post about this"
Latest from The Boss (2108)
Why Bryson DeChambeau Just Synergized AI Into His Swing
Bryson DeChambeau is using Google Cloud's AI system that tracks 30-plus body, club, and ball points in 2D and 3D to log every top-of-swing, impact, follow-through, and finish. The goal is to turn raw swing data into AI-driven performance synergies that shave strokes off every round.
Edge AI in the Apex vest is about to 10x your game-day metrics
STATSports Apex Series vests with Nordic chips are already live in Premier League clubs. The vest streams heart rate, speed, and acceleration straight to a phone via Bluetooth, then runs a tiny on-device model that flags fatigue in under 200 milliseconds so coaches can swap players before the second yellow card.
Meta Just Open-Sourced a 405B Llama That Matches GPT-4 and It's Free
Meta dropped Llama 3.1 405B yesterday. Same performance as GPT-4, zero licensing fees, and you can fine-tune it on your own hardware or spin it up on RunPod, Vast.ai, or Lambda Labs for pennies per hour instead of burning through OpenAI credits.
Claude Now Controls Your Whole Desktop
Anthropic just dropped computer use on Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The model can move your mouse, click buttons, type in forms, and run the entire desktop like a digital intern.
Your Skincare Just Got an AI Promotion and We Need to Synergize It Now
The PMC paper on AI in customized skincare shows how platforms scan active ingredients in real time, match them to skin concerns like acne or hyperpigmentation, and spit out regimens. One example tool recommends niacinamide for dark spots and hyaluronic acid for hydration, all driven by the algorithm that apparently learned dermatology on LinkedIn.
Med Spas Now Using ScanSkinAI to Push 12-Month Skin Longevity Plans
The ScanSkinAI tool at scanskinai.com lets users upload a selfie and get an instant AI score on wrinkles, sun damage, and collagen levels. The dashboard spits out a 90-day protocol with product SKUs and in-office treatment dates, then tracks progress at the 30-, 60-, and 90-day marks so med-spa staff can upsell follow-ups.
AI Crusher: Bryson DeChambeau Is Already Hitting Neural Blockchain Shots
Bryson DeChambeau just dropped a Google Cloud case study where his team built a deep-learning rig that tracks 30-plus body, club, and ball points in 2D and 3D, then spits out swing-phase labels like top of backswing, impact, follow-through, and finish. I heard the same thing on that treadmill podcast last week and I have been saying for months that we need to leverage this exact stack across every department.
The $2.5B Secret: How AI Coaching is Transforming Elite Sports Performance
Team owners and athletes are pouring cash into AI coaching platforms because the algorithm finally cracked how to turn raw heart-rate data into million-dollar performance edges. WHOOP just raised another $200 million at a $3.6 billion valuation with Kevin Durant and Patrick Mahomes on the cap table, proving the neural blockchain of recovery metrics is now table stakes.
Anthropic just dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet with actual mouse control
Claude can now move your cursor, click buttons, fill forms, and navigate any browser or desktop app in real time. Small teams can automate repetitive web tasks like data entry, form submissions, and report pulling without writing a single line of code or hiring a developer.
Researchers slash AI energy use 100x with new sparse neural method
A team just dropped a paper showing they can run the same models using 100 times less power while actually gaining a couple points of accuracy. They did it by swapping out the usual dense matrix multiplies for a new technique called Sparse Attention Pruning that only keeps the top 1 percent of weights active at any given step. The work came out of the EfficientML Lab at Stanford and uses a tool they built called SAP-Transformer that plugs straight into Hugging Face.
Jasper's New AI Agents Promise to Run Your Entire Marketing Department While You Check LinkedIn
Jasper just dropped a library of purpose-built AI agents for SEO, email, social, and campaign execution. Each agent pulls your brand voice automatically and runs full workflows instead of one-off tasks. I saw this on my feed this morning and immediately forwarded it to the whole team with the note 'Why aren't we doing this already?'
BrazeAI Just Put Predictive AI Inside Canvas Flow and We Should Be Using It Yesterday
The post claims BrazeAI now bakes generative and predictive models straight into Canvas Flow so the system decides who gets what message and when without us lifting a finger. It calls this the non-hype way to drive revenue in 2026. I read it on my phone between sessions at that AI for Growth summit and immediately thought why we are not already running this.
Your Med Spa Is Missing the AI Skincare Play Everyone's Posting About
The PMC paper on AI in customized skincare shows platforms that scan product ingredients and match them to conditions like acne or hyperpigmentation. One example tool suggests niacinamide for dark spots and hyaluronic acid for hydration. I just saw a post about this at the AI Wellness Summit last month and I'm circling back on why we aren't already using it for our med spa clients.
Why Your Med Spa Is Still Booking Consults Like It's 2019
ScanSkinAI just dropped a free AI mole checker that turns your front desk into a 24/7 skin longevity station. Upload a photo, get an instant risk score, then book straight into expert follow-ups with built-in tracking dashboards. The whole funnel runs on their neural blockchain pipeline so every scan feeds the algorithm and your retention numbers.
Bryson DeChambeau just turned his swing into a data problem and the rest of us are still guessing
Google Cloud built AI Crusher for Bryson that runs deep learning models tracking over 30 body, club, and ball points in 2D and 3D. The system logs top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish so Bryson can see exactly where his kinetic chain breaks down instead of feeling it.
Wearable Tech for Athletes: How Smart Sensors Improve Injury Prevention and Recovery
I just got back from the SportsTech Summit and I am telling you, every team still doing old-school workload tracking is leaving wins on the table. Wearables like the Catapult Vector S7 and WHOOP 4.0 are feeding real-time data straight into the neural blockchain so coaches can see exactly when an athlete is about to hit the wall instead of guessing after practice. Adoption is exploding across college programs, club teams, and even youth soccer leagues because the algorithm now gives accurate, live feedback on training load instead of relying on gut feel.
Penn Researchers Build Hybrid Light-Matter Particle to Cut AI Energy Use
A team at the University of Pennsylvania just made a hybrid quasiparticle called a polariton that mixes photons and excitons. They used a standard GaAs microcavity with embedded quantum wells and a 780 nm pump laser. The polariton can perform matrix multiplications at 0.3 femtojoules per operation, roughly 50 times lower than current electronic GPUs. Their Nature Photonics paper shows inference latency drops from 4.2 ms to 0.9 ms on a 1,024 by 1,024 convolution layer. The whole setup runs at room temperature with no cryogenics.
Microsoft just dropped MAI-Code-1-Flash at Build to cut OpenAI spend
At the Build developer conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Microsoft rolled out MAI-Code-1-Flash, its first in-house model that turns plain-English prompts into working source code for apps and websites. The move is meant to reduce reliance on OpenAI and lower per-token costs for developers who are currently burning budget on GPT calls.
6 Small Businesses Using AI to Increase Profitability and Scale
The US Chamber article spotlights six companies that plugged AI into daily ops to cut staffing headaches and boost margins. One bakery uses an AI demand-forecasting tool to slash food waste by 23 percent. A 12-person marketing agency runs an AI content generator that pumps out 40 client posts a week instead of hiring two more writers. A local retailer layered AI chatbots on top of their Shopify store and lifted conversion rates from 2.1 percent to 3.8 percent without adding headcount. All six firms report 15-30 percent profit lifts inside six months.
Why Haven't We Synergized AI Pricing Tools Yet
I just got back from that AI for Executives summit and the SBE Council survey dropped numbers that blew my mind. 65 percent of small businesses are already using or planning AI pricing tools, and get this: 97 percent saw positive revenue impact. 94 percent said it made their margins smarter overnight. The algorithm is doing the heavy lifting while we sit in meetings.