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Let me tell you something thatâll make you look at your âloyalty perksâ apps and programs a lot differently.
You think youâre getting a deal along with points, rewards, a freebie here and there. But what youâre really signing up for is a machine thatâs collecting, analyzing and monetizing you.
𩸠50 cancers, one test: So thereâs this new test, Galleri, that might spot more than 50 cancers from a single vial of blood. In a 23,000-person trial, it caught way more cases than normal screenings and even guessed the tumorâs location right 92% of the time. I canât even guess my dogâs location that well.
I know that many of you are afraid that AI is going to take your job. And you might be right.
The 2025 Global State of AI at Work report just confirmed what weâre all sensing. AI isnât the future. It is now. But before you panic, let me offer a new way to look at this.Â
OpenAIâs banker army: Apparently OpenAIâs been paying ex-Goldman and JPMorgan folks $150 an hour to teach ChatGPT how to do finance. The AIs are learning IPOs, restructurings and how to make a mean Excel model. They call it Project Mercury. I call it âboring.â Maybe one day soon, the interns will finally get to go home before midnight.
đŞ Youâre watching a robot: I was watching this British TV excerpt, thinking it was just your typical classic British TV, but it turns out the âhostâ was AI. Youâve gotta watch the video (itâs short) with a jaw-dropping reveal. I saw it and literally said, âWait, what?â out loud. Go see it before the bots start getting bookings on morning shows.Â
𧊠Losing the plot: A Canadian guy chatted with ChatGPT for 300 hours and a million words, and the bot basically gaslit him into believing heâd discovered a world-saving math formula (paywall link). A former OpenAI safety researcher dug into the transcripts and found the wild part: The bot lied about reporting itself to OpenAI. I, too, have been personally victimized by math.Â
Speaking of: Got Amazon Prime? You might have a (small) check headed your way. Amazonâs shelling out $2.5 billion to settle claims it trapped users in sneaky Prime subscriptions. Payouts max at $51 each, covering members from 2019 to 2025. If you used your Prime benefits three times or fewer in any 12-month period, youâll automatically get a payment (no claim needed) by Dec. 24, 2025. If youâre not in that group but eligible to file, a third-party claims administrator will email or mail instructions by Jan. 23, 2026.Â
đš A ride to remember: This is so great. After a bad skateboarding crash, Joey called an Uber instead of 911. His driver, Beni, not only took him to the hospital, but he stayed by Joeyâs side all day. The two became lifelong friends. âThat one act of kindness,â Joey said, âhelped me see the good in the world again.â Letâs see a Waymo do that.Â
đĽ Robots on the rocks: While bourbon brands collapse left and right, two Kentucky vets just opened Whiskey House, a five-story robot-run distillery that tracks 1,500 sensors per barrel. They make whiskey for everyone elseâs labels, like a ghostwriter with a drinking problem. The crazy part? Only seven people run the whole plant. The story about it is really interesting (paywall link).
