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💦 Hey there, friend. It’s been a wild week in AI. Come on in and make a Splash.
WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE:
🎯 AI turns “get healthier” into a real 90-day plan.
💼 Make rival AIs check each other before you trust their answers.
⚠️ Fake support numbers are sneaking into AI search results.
🤯 Pool-watching AI can spot drowning before humans notice.
🛠️ New Claude Design turns messy ideas into polished visuals.
🫠 Floating AI data centers are headed for the ocean.
But first, what pops up into your head when you say “robot”?
Do you think of a Roomba? The Terminator? The little “I’m not a robot” box judging your humanity? We see the word robot dozens of times a week. The tech feels new, so the word is pretty new-ish, right? Turns out it’s over 100 years old, and it didn't come from a scientist or an engineer.
A Czech writer named Karel Čapek slipped it into a 1920 stage play about artificial workers. So my question for you is this.
🤖 What does the word robot mean in the original Czech? A) Tireless metal helper, B) Forced labor, the kind serfs got stuck doing, C) Thinking machine or D) Our future overlords (give it time)? Keep reading. The answer is waiting at the end like a very dramatic stage cue.
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🎯 YOUR AI POWER MOVE
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I’ve done it. Opened the Notes app. Typed “Get healthier.” Then achieved nothing. Because “healthier” doesn’t tell me whether to walk, lift, stretch, sleep, sprint or stop training like I’m late for the Tour de France. It sits there. A wish in an app, and wishes don’t do push-ups.
Instead of wishing, it’s better to ask: What do I want my body to do?
Run at dawn into my 70s. Haul every grocery bag inside in one trip like a lunatic. Stay independent for the long haul.
Those are goals. “Healthier” is a mood. Real fitness is a few levers: strength, endurance, flexibility, balance and recovery. It’s the difference between dreading the stairs and not even noticing them.
🔍 Turn the fog into a plan
This is the one I’d hand a friend who restarts every January and quits by February. Open ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Grok and paste this:
You’re a practical fitness strategist. Turn my goals into a capacity blueprint: Raise the floor where it matters most, raise the ceiling on one or two areas. My details: age range [insert], current routine [insert], training history [insert], injuries or limits [insert], equipment [insert], time per week [insert], what I enjoy [insert], what I hate [insert]. Give me priorities, what to train, what not to overdo, a weekly structure, warning signs and one key takeaway. Then turn it into a 90-day plan with a first big win, a normal week and a bare-minimum week, warm-ups, recovery, a progress test every 4 weeks and what to track in 5 minutes a week. Keep it realistic.
That gives you priorities, warning signs and a 90-day plan with a first real win. It also builds a “bare-minimum week” for when life punches back and you’ve got 20 minutes, not hours.
Realistic beats heroic. Heroic usually needs a knee brace tomorrow.
💪 Make it something you’ll look at
Now turn that plan into a one-page picture instead of a spreadsheet that makes you tired before you start:
Turn my 90-day capacity plan into a clean, magazine-style fitness infographic. Personal, motivating, not cheesy. Show my main goal, my capacity map, weekly structure, bare-minimum week, recovery rules, progress tests every 4 weeks and a 5-minute weekly tracking dashboard. Use sections, icons, simple meters and a “raise the floor/raise the ceiling” theme. Make it feel like an operating system for my body, not a gym poster.
You get a clear and simple dashboard you can stick on the fridge. I keep mine where I see it every single morning. Out of sight, out of shape.
FYI, AI is not your doctor or your physical therapist. Chest pain, dizziness, a real injury, surgery, pregnancy, anything neurological? Go get a human. And if the AI tries to jump you from couch to five hard sessions a week, tell it to calm down.
📩 Forward this newsletter to someone who keeps “get in shape” on their to-do list but never makes it past the word “healthier.” You know who that is.
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💼 YOUR AI EDGE
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Use AI like I do
Everyone’s hunting for the perfect prompt. Wrong move. The real edge isn’t a better prompt. It’s a better second opinion.
Here’s what I do when a draft matters.
I write it in Claude. A pitch, a piece, an email with consequences. Then I don’t trust it. Not yet. I make the other AIs roast it first. Think Shark Tank, but everyone is a robot and no one asks for 20% equity.
Draft it in Claude (or whatever you like).
Paste that draft into Gemini and ask: What’s wrong with this? Be specific. What’s weak, what’s missing, what would you cut?
Take the same draft to ChatGPT and ask the exact same thing.
Bring both critiques back to Claude: Two other AIs reviewed your draft. Here’s what they said. Now make it better, and flag anything you disagree with and why.
That’s it. Two rival AIs poke holes in the first one’s work. Then the original cleans up the mess. Tiny editor cage match.
💩 Poop on a stick
One AI, left alone, can turn into a yes-man with a keyboard. OpenAI pulled a ChatGPT update last year after it got too flattering and called the behavior sycophantic.
It even told a person their genuinely terrible business idea (selling literal poop on a stick as a gag or art thing) was “genius” and worth a $30,000 bet. These tools are wired to make you feel smart, not to tell you the hard truth.
The last step matters. Asking the original AI to flag disagreements keeps you from blindly swallowing bad notes. You stay the editor. The bots argue in the conference room.
You don’t need all three. Start with two. Draft in one. Roast it in another. Send the notes back. Most people ship the very first thing an AI hands them. You won’t. That’s the edge.
📩 Send this to someone who still copies the first thing AI spits out and hits send.
📻 MY NATIONAL RADIO & YOUTUBE SHOW
📺 WATCH ON YOUTUBE NOW OR LATER
Your Ring doorbell may be doing more than watching porch pirates. This week, we break down how home cameras became part of a giant surveillance web, why smart glasses keep trying to make “face cameras” happen and how AI tools can drop you into someone else’s YouTube video. Normal stuff.
Also this week: Iranian hackers target water systems, Snap’s pricey new smart glasses, robot beggars and the phrases that get you past customer service bots.
Plus, a caller asks how to save old Betamax tapes, and a granddaughter goes viral teaching her 102-year-old grandpa how to order Uber Eats.
Hit play below, so you’re the smartest person around. 👇
🎧 Or search “Komando” wherever you get your podcasts. I’m everywhere.
⚠️ THE AI TRAP
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Please hold
Your flight is canceled, bank charge looks wrong, package disappears, so you ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Google’s AI Overview for customer service.
The trap: Scammers can feed fake “support” numbers straight into AI answers. Not to make you trust them, to make AI trust them first.
One guy searched for Royal Caribbean’s customer service line, called the number Google’s AI served up and handed over his credit card to a crook in a call center.
Security researchers found the same fake numbers planted across airlines, banks and big-name brands, all dressed up to look official.
🔒 Protect yourself
Never call a number an AI or search result hands you. Not from a chatbot, AI Overview, random PDF or Reddit thread.
Get the number from the source on the company’s official site/app, your account page or the back of your credit card.
If “support” wants gift cards, a wire, crypto, remote access to your computer or your full card number for a non-billing issue, hang up. Real companies don’t ask.
The AI sounds sure of itself. That doesn’t make it right. When it’s your money on the line, get the number from the company, not the robot.
📩 Send this to someone who googles a customer service number every time something breaks. (You know exactly who.)
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🤯 “I HAD NO IDEA”
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Pool safety generally means one thing: somebody staring at the water. That’s a problem because drowning usually doesn’t look like it does in the movies.
AI drowning-detection systems are watching some pools, spotting swimmers who are motionless, sinking, struggling or underwater for too long, then immediately pinging lifeguards the exact location.
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A lifeguard scanning 40 moving bodies can miss a toddler silently slipping under in the shallow end. Human attention is noble but easily defeated by glare, splashing, crowded lanes and one person asking where the towels are.
The AI tech is slowly gaining traction in commercial pools, and the home versions are already here. Pool Angel sells an AI safety camera and alarm starting around $899. Coral MYLO has an AI-powered pool alarm with above-water and underwater monitoring.
The AI doesn’t rescue anyone, but it does shorten the gap between something going wrong and a human noticing. And that gap is brutal. The CDC says more than 4,000 people drown each year in the U.S., and drowning is the leading cause of death for kids ages 1 to 4.
If you buy one, ask about blind spots, night use, Wi-Fi failure, underwater detection and false alarms.
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🛠️ YOUR TOOL OF THE WEEK
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Claude Design
WHAT IT DOES: Turns plain-English instructions into polished flyers, decks, one-pagers, mockups, social graphics and simple visual materials.
WHY IT’S COOL: Most people don’t need to fiddle around on Photoshop, especially not in 2026. They need a button that says, “Please make this look like an adult with talent made it.” That’s the lane here. It’s not meant to be a Photoshop killer. I’d call it an ugly-first-draft killer.
WHO IT’S FOR: Small businesses, nonprofits, churches, clubs, teachers, real estate agents, local event organizers and anyone still fighting Word text boxes like it’s a contact sport.
PRICE: Available through Claude’s paid tiers during preview access. Claude Pro: $20/month.
HOW TO FIND IT: Go to https://claude.ai/design and sign in with your paid Claude account.
HOW I’D USE IT: Tell it what you need (fundraiser flyer, clean pricing sheet, pitch deck, website mockup, etc.), and it builds a presentable first version. Say:
Create a polished visual draft.
Format: [flyer/handout/deck/social post/website mockup]
Audience: [who will read it]
Goal: [what they should do]
Style: clean, readable, trustworthy, not cheesy
Must include: [dates, price, location, contact info]
Avoid: clutter, tiny text, generic stock-photo energy
Output: Give me three directions first, then build the best one
Need changes? Talk to it like a patient assistant.
THE CATCH: It won’t magically create taste. Proofread everything, especially dates, prices, phone numbers, logos and legal language. Don’t upload private customer lists, medical info, financial records or anything spicy enough to ruin your week.
🫠 WTF (WHAT THE FUTURE)?
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🌊 AI is making waves
AI companies spent years vacuuming up land, power and water. Now they’re skipping the middleman and moving directly into the ocean.
The Peter Thiel-backed Panthalassa raised $140 million to build floating AI data centers that generate power from ocean waves. Massive buoy-like spheres rise and fall with the water, producing electricity while the surrounding sea handles cooling for the servers inside.
Think of it as a giant mechanical duck whose sole purpose is helping a chatbot write your email without being too mean.
🎬 END OF PROMPT
🤖 The answer: B) Forced labor. “Robot” comes from the Czech word robota, meaning forced labor or compulsory service. The kind of backbreaking work serfs owed feudal lords. The root, rab, means slave.
So yes, the word we use for cheerful little vacuums and chatty customer service bots originally meant, more or less, “unpaid drudgery.” Which honestly tracks.
Čapek’s robots were artificial people built to do all our dirty work, right up until they revolted and wiped out humanity. (Cheery stuff.) And Karel didn’t even invent the word. His brother Josef, a painter, tossed it out while Karel was set on calling them “labori.”
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