Bloomberg asked advisers where they'd put $1M this quarter. Most skipped hyperscalers and chips for energy, logistics and live events, with safaris filed under treat-yourself money. AI and the IRL craving now share a portfolio.
The AI bot at my Dutch bank didn't know how the bank's own systems worked, and every answer left me more confused than the last, until I finally got through to a human. 51% of consumers say AI made things slower or never solved the problem at all.
Nine out of ten AI pilots reportedly never reach production. Model quality stopped being the constraint a while ago. They stall in plumbing humans laid before AI existed: data nobody cleaned, systems never built to connect, governance written for human sign-off.
Google is building a robot medic for NASA with Johnson Space Center and JPL. It runs on CMO-DA, a decision-support system with its models onboard, because a crew officer treating an injury can't wait out deep-space communication lag for a doctor on Earth.
Eko's CORE 300 just got FDA 510(k) clearance, and the detail I keep coming back to is that you can drain the battery to zero and the chestpiece still works as a plain acoustic stethoscope. Twist it for digital: up to 35x amplification with active noise cancellation.
The Guardian (24 Oct) names AI slop as the tipping point for a culture stuck in sameness, and calls for human-made art, writing, music and design. I'd move the tipping point back years, to the influencer feed.
Radical Numerics ran Omnii-1 to design bacteriophages against bacteria isolated from one patient's antibiotic-resistant infection. The patient got the dose under compassionate use. First human treated with a virus no evolution wrote.
Nature just published the anatomy of a personal health agent, and it splits the job three ways: a data science agent reading your wearable history, a domain expert agent, and a coach. Mixture of experts, applied at the agent level. Makes perfect sense.
Alex Gibney made a documentary about Elon Musk. X blocked its ads, and Musk threatened legal action over what he called a 'hit piece', which is about the best free trailer a documentary can get. Meta and YouTube banned the ads too, then reversed. TikTok kept its ban.
Time just gave Technogym Checkup a special mention in its Best Inventions 2026, for an AI that scores your physical and cognitive state and then hands those numbers to the gym machines. I already log every set and let a model write my routine. Smart gear is next.
