🍺 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 (2107)
AI DNA Scans Now Pick Your Anti-Aging Cream
Med spas are using AI tools like SkinVision and Chronos AI plus cheap DNA kits from 23andMe. You swab at home, upload results, and the system spits out a cream formula with exact retinol strength and peptide mix. No office visit needed.
Bryson DeChambeau Just Bought Sportsbox AI and Golf Is About to Get Weird
Golf gear is already a fat multibillion-dollar business. Now Bryson DeChambeau and his investor buddies dropped an 8-figure pile of cash on Sportsbox AI. Their 3D Golf app films your swing, builds a motion-capture avatar, and spits out fixes in seconds. Bryson says this tech is the cheat code the rest of us have been missing.
Golf's New Caddie Is an AI App That Knows Your Swing Better Than You Do
On the Course, the $2.5B AI coaching wave just hit the fairway. WHOOP slapped a $200M raise on a $3.6B valuation in 2021 with Kevin Durant and Patrick Mahomes writing checks. Now golf apps use the same tech to read your swing data, tell you when you're tilting, and cut strokes without hiring a $300-an-hour pro.
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet Now Drives Your Mouse
Claude grabs your mouse and keyboard to fill forms, edit spreadsheets, and click through apps just like you would. No code needed. Anthropic dropped the computer-use preview so anyone can hand routine desktop work to the AI.
Meta just dropped the biggest open model yet
Llama 3.1 405B matches closed frontier models but runs on your own hardware or cheap cloud GPUs. No API keys, no usage caps, full GPT-4-class power for small teams.
AI now picks your serum like your weird aunt picks wine
PMC study shows AI tools scan your skin pics, check 200 plus ingredients, and spit out a custom mix for acne, dark spots, or wrinkles in under 60 seconds.
AI Turns Your DNA Into A Custom Anti-Aging Cream Recipe
Med spas are using AI tools like SkinDNA and Revieve to scan your face and genes, then spit out a one-of-a-kind serum formula. No office visit needed. You swab your cheek at home, mail it in, and the AI spits back a product list tailored to your collagen breakdown rate and UV damage markers.
Bryson DeChambeau just bought Sportsbox AI for eight figures to turn your phone into a golf coach
Golf gear is already a multibillion-dollar business. Now AI is jumping in. Bryson DeChambeau led investors to snag Sportsbox AI and its 3D Golf app. The app films your swing with a phone camera then spits out a motion-capture avatar so you can see exactly what your body is doing wrong.
Bryson DeChambeau's AI Swing Lab
Bryson is using Google Cloud AI to track 30 body points plus the club and ball in 2D and 3D. The system watches every inch of his swing from takeaway to finish and spits out data on ball flight and impact.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Just Beat GPT-4o at Coding and Vision for Free
Anthropic dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet on claude.ai. It crushes GPT-4o at writing code and reading images. No paywall. Indie devs and freelancers just got a free top-tier coding buddy.
Llama 3 8B and 70B Drop: Free Local AI That Beats the Cloud Bills
Meta just open-sourced Llama 3 in 8B and 70B flavors. The 8B runs on a decent laptop GPU, the 70B needs a 24 GB card or a cheap cloud spot. No API keys, no data leaving your machine.
SurferSEO Drops Real-Time AI Editor That Spies On Top Google Pages
SurferSEO just shipped an AI editor that reads the current top 10 Google results, pulls their word count, headings, and E-E-A-T signals, then spits out live rewrite suggestions so your draft matches search intent without leaving the doc.
Ahrefs just dropped an AI grader that scores your draft against the real top dogs in Google
Paste your draft into the new Content Grader tool, it pulls the current top 10 SERP pages, then spits back a score plus fixes on word count, keyword gaps, and missing internal links you should add.
AI Just Became Your Skin's Personal Detective
PMC article shows AI tools now scan your skin photos and ingredient lists, then spit out a custom routine. One example? It spots redness and says swap that retinol for niacinamide.
AI Skincare That Reads Your DNA, No Office Visit Needed
Med spas are rolling out AI chat tools that ditch the waiting room. You upload DNA test results from 23andMe or Ancestry, the AI spits back a custom cream formula with exact percentages of retinol, peptides, and hyaluronic acid. No appointment. No travel. Just a $99 kit and a 4-minute quiz on the med spa website.
Bryson just dropped eight figures on AI that films your swing
Sportsbox AI turns your phone into a 3D motion-capture studio. You swing, the app builds an avatar, then spits out fixes like a robot coach. Bryson DeChambeau and buddies bought the whole shop in April for a mystery eight-figure price because the golf gear biz is already worth billions and they smell bigger money coming.
Bryson DeChambeau Just Turned His Swing Into a Google Cloud Science Project
Bryson is feeding every inch of his golf swing into Google's AI so the robot can spot what his human coach misses. The system watches 30-plus body and club points in 2D and 3D, then spits out exact numbers on top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish. Bryson calls it the future of sports performance and he is already using the data to tweak his game in real time.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Just Beat GPT-4o at Coding and Reading Charts
Anthropic dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet and it smokes GPT-4o on coding benchmarks while also reading complex diagrams like a champ. Limited free access is live right now at claude.ai so small teams and freelancers finally get a real coding sidekick without paying enterprise prices.
New AI trick cuts power bills 100x and gets smarter too
University of Michigan researchers ditched the old matrix math that guzzles electricity. They swapped in something called analog in-memory computing with phase-change materials. The chip does the heavy lifting right where the data sits so it skips the constant back-and-forth to memory. Result: same accuracy on image tasks with 100 times less juice.
HubSpot AI Now Writes Whole Email Sequences From One Prompt
HubSpot's AI Email Writer takes a single sentence prompt and spits out a full 5 to 7 email nurture flow complete with subject lines and CTAs. The tool lives inside the Marketing Hub and pulls your brand voice from past campaigns so the tone stays consistent. One marketer who tested it cut campaign build time from 4 hours to 25 minutes.