All roads lead to AI

August 3, 2025

🧠 All roads lead to AI: Google’s new AI, Aeneas, is here to help historians make sense of old Latin carvings. This Rosetta stone with a GPU scans worn inscriptions, predicts missing words and even guesses where and when they were chiseled in. It’s open-source, trained on 150,000+ ancient texts and helped date 90% of test inscriptions better than humans. Pretty nifty.

Tags: Google, help, old, open-source, Texts

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Why rich people swap homes (and how you can, too)

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Want to globe-trot like a baller but on a budget? Enter home swapping: the Airbnb alternative that doesn’t cost a mortgage payment per night. It’s just what it sounds like. You stay in someone’s house, they stay in yours, like Freaky Friday with better Wi-Fi.

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One diet soda a day

Can increase your risk of type 2 diabetes by 38%. The kicker? That’s actually higher than regular sugary drinks, which come in at 23%. Why? Researchers think artificial sweeteners confuse the body and mess with gut bacteria and insulin response. So yeah, maybe not the healthier choice after all.

⚡️ 3-second tech genius: Use Ctrl + Shift + N (Windows) or Cmd + Shift + N (Mac) to open a private browsing window in most browsers. No history, no cookies, everything stays incognito.

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🌤️ Weather shortcut in Chrome: On desktop, type “weather” in the address bar to see a mini forecast right away. You don’t even have to press Enter. Want a sky report somewhere else? Just add a location, like “weather Arizona.” Spoiler: It’s hot. 🥵

📄 Simplify legal docs with AI: Got a lease or contract you don’t understand? Paste it into ChatGPT and ask for a plain-English breakdown. You can also ask what specific sections mean or how they might affect you. If it’s serious business, call a lawyer, not a robot.

Delete YouTube history: Sign into YouTube on your PC and click the three-dot menu (top left). Tap History, then select Clear all watch history on the right side of the screen. You can also choose Pause watch history to stop it from tracking future videos. PSA: This will also change your recommendations.

⚡️ 3-second tech genius: iPhone and Android both let you copy text from a photo. Just tap and hold the text, e.g., menus, signs, screenshots. Boom. Instant clipboard magic.

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$2.3 million

What it now takes to be considered “wealthy” in the U.S. That’s down from $2.5M last year. Still, unless you’ve got a trust fund or a crypto time machine, you’re probably just “comfortable.”