🍺 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)
Anthropic Just Gave Claude 3.5 Sonnet a Mouse and Keyboard
Claude 3.5 Sonnet's new computer use tool lets the AI move your cursor, click buttons, and type in apps like a human. No code needed. Small teams can now automate boring desktop tasks that used to need expensive software or a full dev team.
New AI Trick Slashes Energy Use 100x, Nails Accuracy Too
Stanford researchers built a sparse attention model called LightCore that skips 95 percent of the heavy math in transformer layers. On the GLUE benchmark it hit 89.4 percent accuracy while using 87 times less power than GPT-3. The secret sauce is a learned mask that only keeps the top 5 percent of token connections.
AI is turning med spas into high-tech skin labs overnight
Tools like Haut.AI and Perfect Corp scan your face in seconds, build 3D maps, and spit out virtual before-and-after shots so the doc can plan your treatment on the spot.
Haut.ai scans your mug and sells you the right cream
Haut.ai built an enterprise platform that beauty brands drop into their apps and websites. The AI camera picks up 150 skin parameters like wrinkles, redness, pores, and pigmentation then spits out a custom product stack on the spot.
Bryson DeChambeau Swings Like a Robot Thanks to Google Cloud AI
Bryson straps on Google Cloud's 3D motion system that locks onto 30 body and club points. The deep learning model spits out exact angles for top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish so he can tweak his game like code.
Bryson DeChambeau just dropped eight figures on AI that turns your swing into a 3D avatar
Sportsbox AI built a phone app that films your golf swing and spits out a motion-capture avatar. Bryson and his investor crew bought the company in April for an undisclosed eight-figure chunk of change. The bigger story is that the whole golf gear market is already multibillion-dollar and this kind of AI is about to jack it higher.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Now Drives Your Mouse and Keyboard
Anthropic just flipped the switch on the Computer Use beta inside Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The model can literally grab your cursor, click buttons, type text, and hop between apps on the screen like a digital intern.
Llama 3.1 405B Just Dropped Free
Meta open-sourced the 405 billion parameter Llama 3.1 model. Anyone can download the full weights from Hugging Face, run it on eight H100 GPUs or rent time on RunPod for pennies per hour, and get near GPT-4 quality without sending a dime to OpenAI.
AI SEO: Let the Bots Crawl, You Write the Damn Headlines
HubSpot says split your SEO workflow in half. Let AI hammer the grunt work like site crawls, rank tracking, schema validation, and broken link checks in tools like Screaming Frog or SEMrush. Keep the human brain on content briefs, competitor analysis, and keyword clustering where voice and strategy matter.
AI SEO Tools 2026: Stop Chasing Google, Start Feeding the Answer Engines
Traditional rankings still count but the real game is now winning spots inside AI Overviews and LLMs. Yotpo says brands need tools that optimize for generative search instead of just keywords. Top picks include SurferSEO for content scoring, Clearscope for semantic depth, and Frase for question mapping. Add schema markup, tighten E-E-A-T signals, and rewrite pages so the model grabs your facts first.
Med Spas Now Scan Your Face Like TSA
Haut.ai built an AI tool that spots 150 skin issues in one photo. Beauty brands drop the selfie into the platform and get instant product picks that actually match the customer's skin instead of guessing.
NYC Med Spa Uses AI Scans to Show You What You'll Look Like After Fillers
Aura Med Spa in New York scans your face with AI, runs longevity bloodwork, and then shows you a 3D model of exactly how your skin will age over the next decade if you do nothing versus if you get the treatments they recommend.
Bryson DeChambeau just bought Sportsbox AI to turn your golf swing into a 3D avatar
Golf gear is already a multibillion-dollar biz. Bryson DeChambeau and investors just paid an 8-figure sum for Sportsbox AI, the company behind a 3D Golf app that records your swing and spits out a motion-capture avatar. The tech shows exactly how your body moves so you can fix your slice without guessing.
Your iPhone Just Became Your Golf Coach
Greenside AI runs entirely on your iPhone's GPU and Neural Engine so you can film your swing on the range or the back nine and get instant feedback with zero internet. It breaks down the biomechanics, then spits out a predictive model that shows exactly what needs fixing.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet now drives your mouse and keyboard
Anthropic dropped computer use on the new Sonnet. It sees your screen, moves the cursor, types, and clicks. You type plain English like fill this spreadsheet or book the flight and it does the clicks for you.
Microsoft Just Launched Its Own Code Writer
At Build in San Fran on Tuesday, Microsoft dropped MAI-Code-1-Flash. You type what you want, it spits out the code for apps and sites. Goal is to cut OpenAI bills and give devs cheaper tools.
My Take on AI Marketing Tools in 2026 (What Works)
Semrush just dropped their AI Visibility Toolkit that scans your brand mentions across ChatGPT, SearchGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity in one dashboard. Figma AI lets you type a prompt and spit out full website mockups in seconds instead of hiring a designer.
AI SEO: Let the Robot Do the Boring Stuff
HubSpot's playbook splits SEO tasks into two buckets. Bucket one (site crawls, rank tracking, schema validation, broken link checks) hands the grunt work to AI for speed, then a human double-checks. Bucket two (content briefs, competitor analysis, keyword clustering) stays human because judgment and brand voice still matter.
AI Tools Are Taking Over Med Spas
3D facial mapping software, virtual before-and-after planners, and AI skin apps like Haut.AI and Perfect Corp are now standard at clinics. These tools scan your face in seconds, show you projected results, and cut consultation time in half.
NYC Med Spa Uses AI to Show You Future Face Before the Needle
Aura Med Spa in New York scans your skin and runs longevity diagnostics. The AI then builds a 3D model so you can see exactly how dermal fillers or facial balancing would look before any shots happen.