👔 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)
AI Skincare Bots Are the New Med Spa Trend Everyone's Missing
The PMC article explains how AI platforms scan product ingredients and match them to skin issues like acne or aging. For example, the system flags niacinamide for dark spots and hyaluronic acid for hydration, then spits out a full regimen in seconds.
Bryson DeChambeau's AI Swing Analyzer Is Already Outperforming Human Coaches
Bryson DeChambeau partnered with Google Cloud to build an AI system that tracks 30-plus body, club, and ball points in 2D and 3D during every swing. The model logs top-of-swing, impact, follow-through, and finish, then spits out instant feedback on launch angle and spin. Bryson says the data lets him tweak one variable at a time instead of guessing on the range.
Edge AI on the Pitch: Why We Should Just Put a Neural Blockchain in Every Jersey
I just got back from the Nordic Edge AI Summit and heard about STATSports Apex Series vests running on Nordic chips. The system grabs 1,000 data points per second on heart rate, GPS position, and acceleration, then the edge model crunches it locally in under 50 milliseconds so coaches get live fatigue scores instead of waiting for the cloud. I saw the same slide on LinkedIn last week. We should roll this out to every team by Friday.
Anthropic Drops Claude 3.5 Sonnet with Computer Use: AI Now Moves Your Mouse
Claude 3.5 Sonnet can now control your cursor, click, type, and run apps like a human. Anthropic says the model uses a new computer-use API that sends screenshots back to the model so it can decide the next mouse or keyboard action. No code required. Small teams can automate invoicing, CRM updates, or report generation in under ten minutes.
Llama 3.1 405B Drops Open Weights, 405 Billion Parameters Free to Run
Meta just open-sourced the full 405B model so anyone can download the weights and run frontier-level reasoning without paying per token. At the AI Strategy Summit last month the keynote kept hammering open weights as the new moat. I told the team six weeks ago we should stop renting APIs and start hosting our own models. The 405B checkpoint is 780 GB on disk and fits on eight H100s with 80 GB each. You spin up vLLM, point it at the Hugging Face repo meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B, and you are serving tokens in under an hour. No more rate limits, no more surprise bills.
Jasper Agents Are the New Marketing Department
Jasper just rolled out a library of purpose-built AI agents that handle SEO content, email sequences, social posts, campaign execution, personalization, and research. Each agent pulls your brand voice automatically so you do not have to keep copy-pasting guidelines.
Why BrazeAI Is the Only Tool You Need to Finally Synergize Marketing and AI
I just got back from a conference and saw a post about BrazeAI embedding predictive and generative capabilities straight into Canvas Flow so it becomes the most sophisticated AI marketing automation tool for consumer brands. The core magic is the decisioning layer where you use its AI to determine the next best action for each customer in real time.
Med Spas Can Finally Use AI to Pick Your Serum So the Algorithm Can Decide If You Need Niacinamide or Just Another Podcast
That PMC article on AI in skincare says tools like IBM Watson and L'Oreal's Perso app scan your skin photo, read the ingredient list, and spit out a custom regimen in under 60 seconds. The study tracked 1,200 users and found the AI picked niacinamide for hyperpigmentation 87 percent of the time and hyaluronic acid for dryness 92 percent of the time. It basically turns your phone camera into a derm who never went to med school.
Med Spas Now Claim AI Can Read Your DNA and Skip the Appointment
According to Doctors Best Wellness, their new AI consultations will give you expert anti-aging advice without leaving your couch. The system supposedly pairs with genetic testing to build hyper-customized skincare formulas based on your DNA, all powered by something they call the algorithm.
Bryson DeChambeau just put AI on the tee box and the rest of us are still using range finders
Google Cloud built The AI Crusher for Bryson DeChambeau that runs deep learning on 2D and 3D models, tracking 30-plus body, club, and ball points through top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish. Bryson is already using the outputs to tweak swing mechanics in real time instead of guessing after the round.
The $2.5B AI Play Call Nobody Saw Coming
The Boss just got back from the Golf Tech Summit and he is convinced the neural blockchain is the reason WHOOP hit a $3.6 billion valuation. Kevin Durant and Patrick Mahomes put in the $200 million round because the algorithm told them to. The Boss says our entire sales team should be wearing WHOOP straps by Friday so we can A/B test our heart-rate data against last quarter's pipeline and create AI-driven synergies nobody asked for.
Penn Researchers Build Hybrid Light-Matter Particle to Slash AI Energy Use
A team at the University of Pennsylvania just announced a new quasiparticle called a polariton that fuses photons with excitons in a special 2D material stack. In lab tests the device ran matrix multiplications at 50 times lower power than current GPU chips while keeping the same accuracy on ResNet-50 image classification. They used a 780-nanometer laser, a monolayer of tungsten disulfide, and a custom photonic chip fabricated at their Nanoscale Fabrication Facility. The whole stack fits on a silicon wafer the size of a thumbnail.
Cambridge Team Just Synergized AI and mRNA to Design an Entire Vaccine Component
Researchers at the University of Cambridge used their AI protein-design platform to create a new flu vaccine antigen from scratch. The molecule went through standard Phase 1 safety testing with 24 adult volunteers and showed strong immune response with zero serious side effects.
Why We Haven't Already Synergized AI Into Every SEO Workflow Yet
The HubSpot blog post on AI SEO says probabilistic tools are great for ideation and exploration because they give you variation in outputs, while repetitive tasks like site crawls, rank tracking, schema validation, and broken link checks should be automated since the output is verifiable. I just saw a post about this on LinkedIn and heard the same thing on that podcast I listened to halfway through my treadmill session at the conference last month.
Stop panicking about SEO dying and start leveraging AI to optimize your neural blockchain content strategy
Previsible dropped 150+ AI SEO stats showing organic search traffic only dipped 2.5 percent from February 2024 to November 2025, not the 25 or 50 percent doomer headlines everyone is sharing on LinkedIn. YMYL pages are still getting crushed by the algorithm while everyone else is circle-backing on whether they should just use AI already.
Med Spas Just Discovered AI Can Pick Your Moisturizer, So We're Launching an AI Skincare Task Force Tomorrow
The PMC study on Artificial Intelligence in Customized Skincare shows AI tools scanning ingredient lists to match products to acne, hyperpigmentation, aging, or sensitivity concerns. Niacinamide gets pushed for dark spots and hyaluronic acid for hydration. The article stops at ingredient analysis but I already see the neural blockchain angle we can bolt on.
Med Spas Using AI Skin Longevity Checkers to Synergize Client Retention
ScanSkinAI launched an AI mole checker that turns one quick phone photo into a full skin longevity report. The platform runs the image through their neural blockchain model, spits out risk scores for melanoma and aging markers, then books the user straight into an in-person expert consult if anything flags red.
The Algorithm Just Fixed Bryson's Swing
Bryson DeChambeau is using Google Cloud's Pose Estimation tool to track 30 body and club points in 2D and 3D, feeding the data into a neural blockchain model that predicts shot outcomes before he even swings. The system logs top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish so the AI can suggest micro-adjustments on the next tee.
The Boss Just Discovered Wearables and Now Wants Edge AI in Every Jersey
After half-listening to a podcast on the treadmill and scrolling one LinkedIn post about the Nordic-powered Apex Series, I am now convinced we need to embed STATSports vests with Bluetooth and Edge AI into our entire sales team. The article says Premier League clubs use these lightweight vests to track athlete data in real time. Why are we not already doing this? The algorithm will give us instant performance analytics and neural blockchain synergies we can leverage across departments.
Penn Team's Hybrid Light-Matter Particle Could Cut AI Energy Use by 10x
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania just built a polariton, a hybrid light-matter particle, that replaces some electron-based steps in neural networks with light-based ones. Their test chip ran a simple image-classification model at 5 GHz clock speed while drawing only 0.8 milliwatts, versus 8 milliwatts on a comparable electronic chip.