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🙋‍♀️ Welcome, friend. We’re jumping in the AI pool and making a Splash. 

WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE:

First up, a brain teaser for you. Remember when the robots are coming sounded like a sci-fi movie and not a Tuesday staff meeting? Geoffrey Hinton remembers. Mostly because he helped make the robots. The Nobel-winning “Godfather of AI” says AI is coming for anyone doing what he calls mundane intellectual labor.

He’d be terrified in those seats today. A podcast host asked him the obvious thing: If you were starting over right now, what’s the safe bet for a career? 

🧠 Which job did the Godfather of AI say is safest? A) Plumber, B) Therapist, C) Hairstylist or D) Professional mermaid at a Florida tourist tank? No spoilers here, the answer is waiting for you at the end.

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I’ve been heavily immersed in AI for almost five years. Here’s one common mistake people make.

They get crappy answers not because the prompt was too short but because it’s bad. People type, “Write a launch email,” “Make this better” or “Give me ideas,” then act personally betrayed when AI serves beige paste. Oh, and let’s not forget “Make no mistakes.” Classic. 

AI can’t read the room you didn’t describe. It doesn’t know your audience hates hype. It doesn’t know the boring feature is the moneymaker. It doesn’t know the customer’s fear, the internal politics, the channel, the stakes or the reason anyone should care.

Try this prompt for something important:

Let it summarize. Correct what it gets wrong. Only then ask for the deliverable. After you have a draft, use the grown-up paranoia prompt:

I used this exact prompt this morning on a super secret project that I’ll be announcing on July 10th. Claude said, “OK I will be a mix of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman.” And the direction I got was incredible. Just thought you might want to try this on some of your strategies.

Now, don’t treat the critique like divine judgment from spreadsheet heaven. AI still makes crap up so you feel good about using it. Like it told me, “Kim, you’re the smartest woman I know.” Flattering, until you realize it says that to everyone.

AI is basically a golden retriever with a thesaurus. I live with Bella and Abby, so believe me, I know the move. Big eyes, total devotion, zero accountability.

A 6-foot robot named Neo can fold laundry, clean the house and maybe stare into your soul while a real human remotely controls it. Convenient? Sure. Creepy? Also yes. This week, I break down the new $20,000 humanoid helper with a $499-a-month subscription and the very tiny catch: Someone may need to “expert mode” it from afar.

Also this week: Hidden cameras crooks plant in yards, Netflix games call your phone, Meta glasses with Kylie Jenner’s voice and data centers draining towns dry.

Plus, a Waymo goes rogue in a construction zone, an Uber driver stops a bank card scam and AI helps save one family $46,000 on a medical bill.

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You’d never read your Social Security number out loud in a crowded coffee shop. But you’ll paste it into ChatGPT to “help me fill out this form.” On many AI free tiers, what you type can be used for model training and you never know where it will end up.

People do this constantly: “Summarize my lease.” “What’s this lab result mean?” “Rewrite this email to my lawyer.” Those can include names, account numbers, diagnoses, addresses and other people’s private details. Congrats, you made your blood work a team project.

Passwords, Social Security numbers, bank details, medical records, anything under someone else’s name. Strip it out or use placeholders like “[CLIENT NAME]” and fill in the real details later. Lock down the settings. 

Using AI for work? Check if your company pays for a business tier, which usually keeps your data out of training. Opting out only works going forward, but it can’t un-feed what you’ve already typed in. 

There's no Ctrl+Z for oversharing. Ask anyone who's ever hit reply-all.

📩 Send this to someone who keeps typing “make this better” while spilling personal and client secrets into a public server.

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Humans name babies, boats, Wi-Fi networks and sourdough starters. A few species got close. Dolphins and parrots basically shout a copy of each other’s signature sound. Cute, but it’s mimicry. More “hey, pool guy” than a true name.

Then AI stuck its weird little stethoscope into the animal kingdom and found something stranger.

Researchers fed years of African elephant recordings into AI models trained to spot patterns humans miss. The result: Elephants’ low, rumbling calls appear to carry individual labels for the elephant they’re addressing. Not copied sounds but more like a noise that simply means you.

Play a female elephant the rumble meant for her, and she perks up and answers. Play her one meant for somebody else, and she shrugs it off. Bella and Abby also know their names. They also answer to treat, walk and the sound of the cheese drawer opening. Science is complicated.

Hebrew University researchers found marmoset monkeys use specific “phee” calls to label each other. The whole family even uses the same call for the same monkey, and babies learn the names from relatives.

Tiny jungle group chat, no iCloud storage required.

Elephants and tiny monkeys don’t share a recent ancestor. Nobody handed them a shared naming system. They each invented one, probably for the same reason we did: When you live in a big, busy social world, you need to reach the right individual across distance and time. A skill somehow still missing from most family reunions.

Monkey insults? Probably hilarious. Just don’t let an elephant hear, they never forget. 

📩 Send this to the animal lover in your life who always swore their pets understood way more than people give them credit for.

WHAT IT DOES: Builds and tracks an investment portfolio from plain English or a screenshot. Stocks, ETFs, crypto, market news, daily moves, the whole little money circus. 

WHY IT’S COOL: Google Finance has been around since 2006, but the AI-powered feature just came out, turning portfolio tracking into a chat interface. Try it for low-effort market awareness. Skip it for serious trading, options, taxes or institutional data.

WHO IT’S FOR: Casual investors, spreadsheet quitters, crypto watchers and anyone who checks the market without wanting the Bloomberg Terminal burned into their screen. 

PRICE: Free with Google Finance and your Google account. Deep Search has higher limits for Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers.

TRY IT: Go to google.com/finance/beta and sign in.

HOW I’D USE IT: Talk to it about what you want to follow. For example:

Google maps the tickers, pulls prices and builds the tracker. You can upload or snap a portfolio page, too. Crop out account numbers and personal info, please. Google knows enough about me already. It doesn't need my 401(k) too.

Set a morning briefing and get news affecting your holdings, overnight moves, crypto swings, index futures and macro events before the bell.

THE CATCH: Don’t trust AI blindly when it comes to your health or money. It can be wrong, misread screenshots, confuse tickers, summarize old news or explain a stock move like your group project’s most articulate procrastinator. This isn’t your next tax tool or trading platform. Verify data with live prices.

Google’s latest AI trick turns Street View into a playable world, which is great news for people who zoom in on their ex’s neighborhood. 

Google AI Ultra subscribers (the $200 tier) can make interactive environments based on real Street View images. Pick a spot, choose a vibe and render the scene with Genie 3. That means your local coffee shop can become prehistoric, underwater or whatever else your imagination desires. 

Look for Project Genie in Google Labs, then use the Maps pin option to choose a location and get to building. 

Watch life turn into a video game here.

Me? I'm turning my street prehistoric and watching the HOA deal with it. Finally, a Google Maps feature with real stakes.

🚰 The answer: A) Plumber. The Godfather of AI said the smart move is to become a plumber. Why? AI may be able to draft emails, summarize meetings and spit out a legal brief before you’ve reheated your coffee, but it still can’t crawl under your sink at 11 p.m., twist itself into a kitchen cabinet and fight a pipe that was last touched during the Nixon administration. 

If you work with patients, wires, or engines, you're safe. If you stare at a keyboard all day, watch your back.

Speaking of, a guy told his doctor he keeps seeing visions of PVC and copper pipes. The doctor said, “Relax. You're just having pipe dreams.” (You’re gonna use that one, I know!)

Here’s free your haul for today: How to turn one cluttered shelf into resale cash, why better briefs beat better prompts, how to stop spilling private data into chatbots, the animals AI finally helped us understand, Google Finance’s AI glow-up and Street View’s weird new video game era. Not bad for five minutes of reading.

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💪🏼 AI won't replace you, but the person using it will. So be that person, starting today. Drop a rating below. I read every comment. Forward this to ONE person who needs to get with the AI program. Thanks for diving in, see you next time! — Kim

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