👔 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)
Penn Researchers Just Built a Light-Matter Hybrid That Could Make Our GPUs Look Like Dial-Up
A team at the University of Pennsylvania created a polariton, a hybrid light-matter particle, that handles matrix multiplications 100 times faster than current silicon while using 1,000 times less energy. They built it by sandwiching a 2D material between two mirrors in a microcavity, then trained it on MNIST with 98 percent accuracy using only light.
Your 3D Chip Stack Is the Real Bottleneck Fix You Have Been Waiting For
Researchers just built a 3D chip that stacks memory and compute layers vertically instead of the usual flat layout. Data now travels straight up and down instead of fighting sideways traffic across a 2D surface, cutting latency by up to 10 times on AI workloads. The team used a new vertical interconnect process that bonds 8 layers of SRAM directly on top of logic at 5-nanometer scale.
Med Spas Should Already Be Running AI-Driven Longevity Diagnostics on Every Client
Aura Med Spa in NYC is using an AI simulation platform that scans your face, runs longevity biomarkers through its neural blockchain engine, and then shows you a 3D preview of dermal filler results before the needle even touches skin.
How the Algorithm is Personalizing Anti-Aging Skincare
At the Med Spa & Wellness Conference last month I heard this guy say AI plus genetic testing will give you hyper-customized anti-aging plans with zero appointments or travel. The tool is called SkinDNA AI and it pulls your 23andMe file, runs it through their neural blockchain model, then spits out a 14-day peptide serum protocol with exact percentages like 0.8 percent retinol and 3.2 percent niacinamide. No more guessing.
The Boss Thinks AI Swing Analysis Is the Next Neural Blockchain for Golf
Bryson DeChambeau is using Google Cloud's AI system that runs deep learning algorithms on 2D and 3D models to track 30 body, club, and ball points plus shot phases like top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish. I saw this on LinkedIn after the AI in Sports Summit and immediately told the team we should leverage the same stack across our entire workflow.
On the Course: Our AI Coach Is Already Hitting Birdies While the Competition Is Still in the Rough
Team, I just got back from the AI in Sports Summit and I need everyone to drop what they're doing. WSC Sports is using some kind of neural blockchain to turn golf swings into money. WHOOP raised $200 million at a $3.6 billion valuation because Kevin Durant and Patrick Mahomes are wearing the strap. Why aren't we doing this already? We should be leveraging AI coaching on our quarterly planning calls. The algorithm knows when you're about to slice your forecast.
Llama 3.1 405B: The Open-Weights Play That Finally Lets You Run GPT-4-Class AI Without Paying OpenAI
Meta just dropped the 405 billion parameter Llama 3.1 model as fully open weights, matching or beating GPT-4 on coding, math, and long-context tasks. You can now spin it up locally on a Mac Studio with 192 GB unified memory or rent an 8xH100 cluster on RunPod for roughly $2.80 an hour instead of burning $20-plus per million tokens through the OpenAI API.
Researchers at Penn just dropped a hybrid light-matter particle that crunches AI workloads at light speed while sipping way less power
The team built a polariton device that merges photons and excitons so data moves through light instead of electrons, cutting latency and heat. They ran benchmark matrix multiplications on the prototype and saw a 40x throughput bump versus a standard GPU at one-tenth the wattage.
FLO Turns AI Into Shelf Dollars While Your Team Still Guesses Replenishment
FLO used an AI demand engine to lift on-shelf availability from 71 percent to 94 percent, slash out-of-stocks from 15 percent to 3 percent, and pull in an extra 2.7 percent revenue. I saw the same playbook on LinkedIn last week and immediately asked why we are not doing this already.
The AI Pricing Playbook Every Small Biz Needs Yesterday
SBE Council just dropped fresh survey data showing 65 percent of small businesses are already using or rolling out AI pricing tools like DynamicPrice and OptiRev. Among those users 97 percent saw revenue lift and 94 percent said the models paid for themselves in under 90 days.
Jasper's AI Agents Just Handled Our Whole Marketing Funnel While We Were At The Conference
Jasper dropped a library of purpose-built agents that own specific marketing jobs like SEO content, GEO optimization, campaign execution, email, social media, personalization, and research. Each agent pulls your brand context automatically and runs the full workflow end-to-end instead of one-off tasks.
Why Our Organic Traffic Only Dipped 2.5% While Everyone Else Panics About AI Killing SEO
Previsible's December 2025 report analyzed 150+ AI SEO stats and found organic search traffic dropped just 2.5% from February 2024 to November 2025, not the 25-50% crash everyone keeps posting about on LinkedIn. YMYL sites held steady too.
AI-Powered Skin Diagnostics Are Quietly Taking Over Med Spas
Haut.AI and Perfect Corp's YouCam now run the consult rooms at clinics using 3D facial mapping and virtual before-and-after planners. The PMC study says these tools cut consultation time and let practitioners map wrinkles, pigmentation, and pore size in under 90 seconds.
Why Your Med Spa Is Still Guessing at Skincare When the Algorithm Already Knows the Answer
The PMC study on AI in customized skincare shows platforms scanning ingredient databases for active components like niacinamide and hyaluronic acid, then matching them to concerns such as acne, hyperpigmentation, aging, or sensitivity. One tool flagged in the research processes user skin profiles against 50,000 ingredient interactions to output regimens in under 90 seconds.
Bryson DeChambeau Just Bought Sportsbox AI for Eight Figures
Bryson DeChambeau led investors to acquire Sportsbox AI, the company behind the 3D Golf app that turns your phone camera into a motion-capture studio. The app records your swing, builds an avatar, and spits out numbers on hip rotation, club path, and shoulder tilt so you can fix the exact degree that is costing you distance.
The Boss Thinks AI Will Fix Your Golf Swing
After seeing one Google Cloud post, the Boss is convinced we need to track 30 body points on every employee like Bryson DeChambeau. He wants to replace quarterly reviews with the AI Crusher system that logs top of swing, impact, and follow-through on Slack messages.
Meta Just Open-Sourced a 405-Billion-Parameter Beast and We're Already Circling Back on the Neural Blockchain Angle
I just flew back from the AI Summit in Vegas where every keynote mentioned open weights, and now Meta dropped Llama 3.1 405B with full weights, tokenizer, and the new Llama Stack inference server. The model runs in FP8 on eight H100s or can be quantized to 4-bit with Hugging Face bitsandbytes so a two-person startup can fine-tune it on their own A100 cluster using Axolotl scripts in under 48 hours.
Penn Team Builds Hybrid Light-Matter Particle to Cut AI Energy Use
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania just announced a hybrid quasiparticle called a polariton that combines photons and excitons in a 2D material stack. In their lab they fired a 780-nanometer laser into a tungsten-disulfide and aluminum-nitride cavity, measured a 40-times reduction in switching energy, and clocked a 200-femtosecond response time. The setup replaces a few electronic logic gates with this optical shortcut, which they say could drop data-center power draw by up to 30 percent once scaled.
Why Your Med Spa Is Still Booking Consults the Old Way While Everyone Else Is Running AI Skin Scans
The PMC paper on AI in Aesthetic Medicine shows clinics are now using 3D facial mapping software, virtual before-and-after planners, and AI skin diagnostic apps like Haut.AI and Perfect Corp to cut consultation time and lock in treatment plans faster.
Med Spas Just Discovered AI Skincare and Now Want to Synergize It Into Every Facial
A PMC study shows AI platforms scanning active ingredients to match niacinamide for hyperpigmentation and hyaluronic acid for dryness. The Boss read the abstract on LinkedIn during the flight back from the AI Skincare Summit in Miami and now wants the entire med spa team to pivot to neural blockchain diagnostics by Q3.