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Stanford and Harvard proved AI can outpick your fund manager

Three studies. Some very uncomfortable numbers for the guy in the Patagonia vest.

He trained an AI to sound like his wife. Now they talk every day.

A category of AI built for grief and caregiving is quietly growing. Here’s what it is, who it’s for and why it might matter more than any productivity app ever will.

She lost everything in a wildfire. Then her adjuster paid 38 cents on the dollar. Here’s the 20-minute fix.

Carol couldn’t remember what she owned. Her adjuster took full advantage. Here’s how you can protect yourself with one Sunday afternoon and your phone camera.

Big Tech’s best April Fools’ jokes weren’t jokes. They changed your life.

Gmail. Google Maps. The App Store. Every one was dismissed like an absurd April Fools’ prank. Every one became unavoidable. And every one came with a price tag nobody saw coming.

ChatGPT has been taking notes on you. Here’s how to see them.

ChatGPT’s memory feature is on by default, and it’s been building a personal profile from every conversation you’ve ever had. Here’s what it knows and how to take control in under two minutes.

Google Maps accidentally photographed the world’s strangest secrets

From a village with 400 dolls to a desert landing pad for space travelers, here’s what Google’s cameras found when nobody was watching.

Isn’t my browser’s built-in password saver good enough?

Joe in Phoenix uses Google to save his passwords and wants to know why he’d need anything else. Fair question. Here’s the honest answer.

I mentioned Google Calendar scams on the show. The response was enormous. Here’s everything you wanted to know.

A fake meeting invite shows up on your calendar. Looks completely real. One tap on the link inside and your Google account is gone.

My grandfather had 7 letters on his Ellis Island form. That’s how we got Komando.

My grandparents came from Ukraine with a name nobody could spell. An immigration officer wrote down seven letters, and our family was changed forever. I finally went looking for what came before.

The AI chatbot you use every day has a point of view. Researchers proved it.

Multiple universities tested the biggest AI chatbots on political questions. The results were surprising. And one finding should stop you cold.

Medical identity theft is the one type that doesn’t just wreck your finances. It can wreck your health.

Someone uses your insurance to get surgery. Now their blood type, their allergies, their diagnoses are in your medical file. Your doctor thinks that’s your history. It isn’t.

Pull up your childhood home and go back in time. Here’s how.

Google Maps has a hidden clock that lets you drag time backward to 2007. Your old fence might be there. The car in the driveway. People have found photos of loved ones taken before they passed. Kim shows you five free ways to walk back through your own history, and one AI trick to make something unforgettable out of it.

The silent thief that’s inflating your power bill every single month

Your devices are draining electricity 24/7 even when you think they’re off. It costs the average household $100 to $200 a year. A quick, inexpensive fix stops it cold.

That estimate sitting on your counter is probably wrong. AI can tell you how wrong in about three minutes.

A $900 landscaping quote dropped after a three-minute ChatGPT camera scan revealed $20 plants hiding in the mix. The same trick works on contractor estimates, repair bills and hospital invoices. Here’s exactly how to point your phone and stop paying more than you owe.

How long does collagen actually take to work?

Take the protein-packed path with NativePath Collagen. Learn why collagen matters. Ever start a new supplement and find yourself checking the mirror every morning waiting for… something? You’re not imagining the wait. Collagen takes time. But here’s the thing: just because you can’t see it working doesn’t mean it isn’t. Collagen is the most abundant […]

AI companies are paying people to do their own chores. Here’s how to get in on it.

Hundreds of people are strapping cameras to their heads and getting paid $20 an hour to wash dishes, fold laundry and clean kitchens. No, really. The robots are watching. And the pay is real.

Anthropic just published a bombshell report on AI and jobs. Here’s what the chart means for you.

The blue area is what AI could do. The red area is what it’s actually doing. That gap is the most important thing you’ll look at today.

You forget 80% of what your doctor says before you leave the parking lot. AI can fix that in 90 seconds.

This week: Use AI as your doctor’s appointment copilot The average doctor’s appointment is 18 minutes. You waited weeks or months for it. You drove there, parked, sat in the waiting room with a 2022 copy of People magazine, watched a fish tank for nine minutes. Then the moment you sat on that crinkly paper […]

Everyone’s asking AI to draw their character. I tried something way more interesting.

You’ve seen the trend. Everyone’s asking AI to turn them into a cartoon character, a video game avatar, a Pixar version of themselves. Cute. Fun. I get it. But I kept thinking: What if you asked AI for a portrait that actually meant something, a reflection you’d still be thinking about tomorrow? ✍️ Here’s the […]

That unsubscribe button is a trap. Here’s what to do instead.

One click to clean your inbox. One click to hand criminals your password. Do you know which is which?