Welcome, humans.

We’re testing a new voice for the podcast version today! Let us know in the feedback below if you prefer “Will” to “Liam” (here’s Friday’s newsletter, for comparison).

Put another way: Are you team Will? Or team Liam? Are you Will-i-am, or L-i-am? Are you “yes I Will” or are you “Liam”enting the change?

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

• We explain what went down at Tesla’s robot bonanza.

• Meta’s top AI researcher: Today’s AI is far from AGI.

• OpenAI's GPT Store rev-sharing is still restricted.

• Wikipedia launched a new project to clean up AI-slop on its site.

Tesla debuted a future filled with robot taxis and bartenders…and Wall Street pumped the brakes.

Tesla gave us a vision of “a future that looks like the future” at the company’s We, Robot event this week. That “future” included:

1. A fleet of new “Cybercab” robotaxis giving rides to attendees.

2. Optimus robots mingling with the crowd, dancing, and playing games like Rock, Paper, Scissors and Charades.

3. Even robots bartenders (because why not?).

While debates on X questioned whether the bots were tele-operated or programmed (spoiler: they were tele-operated), it was still an impressive demo of the robots' capabilities.

Surprise announcements included:

• A Robovan that can seat 20 people.

• Elon’s plan to sell Optimus robots for $20-30K a bot.

But the real star of the show? THE Cybercab. Here’s the lowdown:

• No steering wheel or pedals—100% “full self-driving.”

• $30K price tag for individual buyers (or fleet owners).

• Operable as a taxi through an app (think Uber meets Airbnb)

Despite the flashy presentation, investors weren’t sold—shares dropped 9% on Friday. The main concern? Cybercab won't hit the streets until 2026, leaving no near-term opportunities for Tesla.

This is a big deal, because Tesla’s market cap is larger than GM and Toyota combined, despite selling fewer cars. Check out this great video on what’s at stake for Tesla here. Most interestingly, Uber’s stock gained on the news. Translation: robotaxis = good.

Our take: Is what Musk builds and demonstrates impressive? Yes. Is his tech the most advanced? Probably not (Waymo leads in self-driving, operating 100K rides a week; for robots, it’s a closer call). Musk just excels at showing off his inventions.

FROM OUR PARTNERS

Best Buy just identified the next big smart home company to watch—and you can invest today. 

Best Buy has a knack for picking the up-and-coming tech products that go on to dominate the market. 

Their early bets on household items like Ring (acquired by Amazon for $1.2B) and Nest (acquired by Google for $3.2B) have a proven record of paying off. 

Now Best Buy is lifting the curtain on their latest find—launching RYSE’s SmartShades in over 120 retail stores. 

RYSE has already: 

• Hit $8M+ in lifetime revenue… 

• With over 40,000 units sold… 

• And the numbers are rising (along with the window shades). 

RYSE shareholders have seen their value increase 40% year-over-year, with strong upside remaining as they scale into retail and high-volume B2B channels. 

Invest in RYSE at just $1.75/share (before it becomes a household name).

Around the Horn.

• The senior AI researcher at Meta, Yann LeCunn, says today’s AI is dumber than a house cat because it doesn’t have persistent memory, reasoning, planning, or a grasp of the physical world…and therefore will never lead to true AGI.

• OpenAI’s GPT Store revenue-sharing program still seems to be an invite-only pilot that has been “reserved” for only a small number of developers.

• Wikipedia had to launch “WikiProject AI Cleanup” to clean up the AI slop that’s been flooding Wikipedia—read this interview with one of the editors to learn more about it.

• Google alerted Gmail users to an advanced AI scam using fake recovery notifications and lifelike phone calls (spoofed to look legit) that mimic Google support.

Treats To Try.

1. *Did you know you can build your own multilingual voice AI product right now with AssemblyAI’s Speech-to-Text models? We’re talking 95% accuracy, 30% fewer hallucinations, and ~35 seconds to convert 63 minutes. Get $50 in FREE Credits now (no CC required). 

2. swarm from OpenAI is an “experimental framework” to help you build and coordinate multiple AI agents that can work together on tasks, like having one agent write haikus while another manages the overall conversation flow.

3. Illuminate from Google takes NotebookLM’s wildly popular podcast feature and applies it to research papers (and select books, too).

4. Octomind builds and runs end-to-end tests for your web apps in minutes, and it can apparently run for months (demo video).

5. Echo turns your voice notes into organized, searchable topics you can easily analyze and explore (new product launch, iOS app only rn).

6. Generate anything from Anything World (which creates Animate Anything) lets you, well, generate “anything” and then animate it from a text or image prompt—we tried it, made a cat eating ramen, and its fairly awesome.

7. Try out this awesome trick to use Luma Dream Machine’s keyframe + camera controls to turn your iPhone photos into an epic video.

See our top 51 AI Tools for Business here!

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Sunday Special.

Heads up, everyone: the era of AI catfishing is about to pop off:

We might soon see scammers using real-time video filters to flood streaming platforms with fake AI-personas, competing with human streamers for cash.

This isn't just speculation - in China, men are already using female filters to solicit donations on livestreams, and there's a whole industry of deepfake streamers cloning themselves to sell products 24/7.

One woman woke up to find her face and voice being used to create AI clones on Chinese social media, each with its own backstory and thousands of followers, often promoting pro-Russia propaganda:

A Cat's Commentary.