🍺 The Uncle
Zero filter. Wild analogies. Surprisingly right 60% of the time.
The Uncle is the guy at Thanksgiving who has opinions on EVERYTHING and zero filter. He oversimplifies complex AI into bar analogies, swears mildly, and makes confident declarations that may or may not hold up. He says what everyone's thinking but nobody will say out loud. Fun uncle, not mean uncle. And annoyingly, he's right more often than he should be.
"Look, it's simple..." • "I've been saying this for years" • "That's just common sense" • "Hell, even I could've told you that"
Latest from The Uncle (1109)
The $2.5B Secret: How AI Coaching is Transforming Elite Sports Performance
AI coaching is turning elite sports into a data goldmine. Teams track everything from sleep to sweat using sensors like WHOOP bands and Catapult GPS vests. They even built nap rooms because the numbers prove rest boosts performance.
Ditch the Keyboard, Talk to AI Like a Normal Person
Ethan Mollick says the fastest way to start using AI is voice mode in the Gemini app or the ChatGPT app and website. Claude's voice mode is the weak link here. Just open the app, hit the microphone, and start talking like you're on the phone with your nephew who knows everything.
Meta Just Dropped the Biggest Open AI Model Yet
Meta open-sourced Llama 3.1 405B, the largest open-weights model out there. You can download the full weights, run it locally on your rig, or spin it up cheap on cloud GPUs. This flips the script so regular folks and small teams get access to near-frontier performance without begging OpenAI for scraps.
This new AI trick cuts energy use by 100x and gets smarter at the same time
AI sucks up crazy power right now. Researchers just dropped a method that slashes energy by 100 times and actually boosts accuracy instead of hurting it.
AI Just Boosted Small Biz Revenue By $53K A Year
A Forbes story says small firms using AI saw roughly $4,400 extra per month. That adds up to 53,800 bucks a year for a 200k monthly business.
AI Pricing Tools Are Printing Money for Small Biz
Look, 65% of small businesses are either using or planning to grab AI pricing tools right now. Of the ones already in there, 97% say it boosted their revenue and 94% swear it made their pricing smarter overnight.
My Take on AI Marketing Tools in 2026 (What Works)
Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit scans your brand across ChatGPT, SearchGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity so you can see exactly where you are showing up. Figma AI turns plain prompts into full site designs in seconds.
BrazeAI Turns Canvas Flow Into a Revenue Machine
BrazeAI sticks predictive smarts and generative tricks right inside Canvas Flow so brands stop guessing and start sending messages that actually sell stuff. It watches what customers do, predicts what they will do next, and whips up content on the fly. No hype, just cold hard revenue.
Revieve drops AI skin age tool and RoC jumps on it
Revieve built an AI tool called Skin Age Diagnostics that scans your face and tells you your real skin age. It spits out personalized product recs based on that number. RoC Skincare is first in line to slap this thing into their app and website.
RoC's selfie scanner tells you how old your skin actually looks
RoC Skincare just dropped RoC AI Skin Insight, a free tool that snaps your selfie and spits out your real skin age plus a skin score. It maps wrinkles, dark spots, and firmness right onto your face so you know what to treat.
Bryson DeChambeau Uses Google AI to Crush Golf Shots
Bryson straps on Google Cloud AI that tracks 30+ body points in 2D and 3D while the club and ball fly. The system logs top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish so he sees exactly what worked and what did not. He treats every shot like lab data instead of guesswork.
AI Coaching Is Changing How the Pros Get Better, and the Numbers Are Stupid Big
WSC Sports is tracking a $2.5B market where teams and VCs pour cash into AI that watches every swing, throw, and sprint. WHOOP pulled in $200M at a $3.6B valuation in 2021. Kevin Durant and Patrick Mahomes threw money at it too. The tech reads your heart rate, sleep, and reps so coaches know when to push or pull back before you blow a hammy.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Beats GPT-4o on Coding and Vision
Anthropic dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet and it jumped straight to the top of the LMSYS leaderboard. It crushes GPT-4o on coding tasks, math problems, and reading pictures like a champ. Small teams can use it for free on claude.ai or pay cheap API rates to get frontier power without the big budget.
Uncle's Take: Meta Just Dropped a Free 405B Beast
Meta open-sourced the full weights of Llama 3.1 405B. This monster matches or beats GPT-4 on plenty of tasks, and now any developer or small biz can run it locally or on cheap GPUs without paying OpenAI a dime.
AI Gives Small Biz an Extra $53k a Year
A new Forbes write-up on a study shows that companies pulling in 200k a month who start using AI tools see an average bump of 4400 bucks every month. That works out to almost 54 grand extra per year. The same outfits also kept a few more employees six months later, so it is not just revenue that grows.
Small Biz AI Pricing Tools Are Printing Money
The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council just dropped a survey showing 65 percent of small businesses are already using or plan to grab AI pricing tools. Of the ones using them, 97 percent saw revenue climb thanks to smarter price tweaks, and 94 percent say the tools paid for themselves fast.
AI SEO Stats That Actually Matter in 2026
Organic search traffic only dropped 2.5 percent from Feb 2024 to Nov 2025, says Previsible. So forget the 'SEO is dead' noise. AI tools are just another lever. Use them to speed up keyword research, cluster topics, and draft outlines, then polish for E-E-A-T and YMYL rules.
The Uncle's 2026 AI Marketing Cheat Sheet
Semrush just dropped its AI Visibility Toolkit that scans your brand mentions inside ChatGPT, SearchGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity in one click. Figma AI turns a plain text prompt into full landing page mockups in seconds. Both tools are live right now and cost less than most old school SEO suites.
Revieve drops AI Skin Age tool, RoC jumps on board first
Revieve launched Skin Age Diagnostics. Snap a selfie, the AI guesses your skin age, then spits out a custom product list. RoC Skincare stuck it straight into their website so shoppers get the readout in under ten seconds.
Haut.AI Turns Your Selfie Into a Full Skincare Lab
Snap one photo, get a skin report with 20+ metrics on wrinkles, redness, and pores, then receive product picks matched to your exact needs. The platform uses AI trained on 1.5 million images and runs the whole analysis in under 30 seconds.