🙋‍♀️ Hello to you this Thursday, friend. Thanks for doing a cannonball into the AI pool with me. Meet Jensen Huang, cofounder and CEO of Nvidia, the $4.8 trillion chip company at the center of the AI boom. Huang doesn’t do one-on-one meetings. Not with his executives. Not with his senior engineers.

His logic? If a conversation is worth having, it’s worth having with the team. Most Fortune 500 CEOs have eight to 12 direct reports.

How many direct reports does Jensen Huang have? A) 12, B) 28, C) 55 or D) 103? It’s exactly why Nvidia moves faster than almost any company its size. Something I do now since I read he does this. Answer’s at the bottom. — Kim

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My sister Christine owns a school. Educational psychologist, one student to one teacher, the works. We were talking last week about how she gets new families. She mentioned she’d been looking into SEO.

I stopped her. "Christine, SEO is over." She looked at me with that same betrayed expression from when we were kids, the look she gave me after I told our mom I'd caught her kissing her boyfriend.

Here’s why it matters: 58% of consumers use AI tools to find local businesses. Up from 19% the year before. Tripled. In one year. Googling is over.

If your business isn’t in an AI answer, you don’t exist to your customers.

It has a name. Generative engine optimization. GEO. The rules are different from Google’s old playbook. AI doesn’t rank 10 blue links. It picks two or three businesses, names them and moves on. So you need to be one of those names.

The good news? Most of your competitors haven’t figured this out yet. There’s time to get ahead before everyone’s nephew becomes an “AI visibility consultant.”

I had her use a chatbot and paste this:

She got back a complete action list. Then she asked ChatGPT to write the schema markup for her. Free. Done before lunch.

The businesses that figure this out own their category. The ones that wait? Invisible. And not the cool invisible either. More like standing outside your own store while AI sends customers to someone else.

📩 Send this to someone who runs a business and thinks SEO is enough.

What do the world’s richest people do before 7 a.m.? Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez start every day writing lists in their billionaire bunker. I’ll tell you what made their list.

😶‍🌫️ Plus, Silicon Valley’s elite have a new obsession: uploading your brain to live forever. A recruiter exposes how she accidentally hired a North Korean spy. And if your kid disappeared into a tablet, scientist Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff knows how to get them back.

An AI agent named Luna opened a real store in San Francisco. Luna signed a lease, negotiated with suppliers and hired human employees. Lukas Petersson tells us about the world’s first AI entrepreneur.

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Here’s something nobody tells you when you buy a smart TV. That gorgeous 65-inch screen has a mic. So does the remote. And in 2026, both got a major upgrade.

It’s called ACR. Automatic content recognition. It’s been quietly running on Samsung, LG, Vizio, Roku and other TVs for years, tracking every show you watch and every ad you skip. Vizio actually makes more money selling your viewing data than selling the TV itself.

This is wild. LG partnered with an AI company to analyze ACR data in real time for advertisers. Translation: The data your TV collects is matched to your spending habits with frightening accuracy.

Watch one curious little documentary, and suddenly the algorithm thinks you’re two clicks from living in a RV campground in Nevada.

The microphones can listen even when you think voice control is off. Some models capture ambient sound and chitchat that go to a cloud server. Where it can be processed, transcribed, analyzed.

Apparently, “mute” now means “for you, not for us.”

🔒 Want to turn ACR off? I have the steps you need on my site here.

📩 Send this to someone who owns a smart TV.

That’s Abby on the left (she’s 7) and Bella (just turned 1) after pool time. They’ve been telling me things for years. I couldn’t hear them. (Well, except when Bella eats my shoes. That one came through like a hostage note made of chewed rubber.)

Studies show novice owners correctly identify dog emotions about 30% of the time. We spent 30,000 years together and continue to operate on “tail up, happy I think”?

Researchers built the Dog Facial Action Coding System, a map of every expression a dog can make with their face, ears, eyes and posture.

The result? AI identifies 12 distinct emotional states in dogs from a single photo. Happy. Anxious. Pain. Frustrated. Excited. Stressed. Suddenly, the family dog has a case file, and some of us probably owe apologies.

Imagine turning on your camera to take a video of your dog. AI analyzes facial expression, body posture, ear position, tail movement. You get back a real time report about what they’re feeling. It even translates barks. (Yes, really.) 

We made BarkGPT before universal health care. Just noting the order of operations.

I tested it on Abby. She was sitting by the door, looking at me, which I assumed meant “I want to go out.” Traini said: “Mild anxiety. Possibly seeking reassurance.” I sat down with her. The look went away. She didn’t need to go out. She needed me. Brutal moment for those of us who confuse attachment bids with potty time.

Learn more at traini.app. Free to try. It’s kinda like trusting a psychic for life advice though. 

Turn any article, PDF, ebook or web page into a natural-sounding audiobook in seconds. Tap a button, pick a voice, hit play. That’s it.

The voices are shockingly human. We’re not talking 2018 robot-Siri voice. The app has 800+ voices, including a legally licensed Iconic Voices collection where Judy Garland, James Dean, Sir Laurence Olivier, Maya Angelou or Burt Reynolds. Yes, Burt Reynolds can read you a Wall Street Journal article. We live in strange times.

Free covers personal listening on the app. Plenty for most. There’s a paid Ultra tier for unlimited 24/7 listening, but you don’t need it to start.

App only. No desktop player. iOS and Android only.

You know that pile of stuff you keep meaning to read? You’re about to listen to it instead. 

Done, smarty pants.

It's been spotted near Oracle Park, lifting its robotic leg to wave hello. (Yes, it looks exactly like what you think.)

This is Beeple's creation, the digital artist who sold an NFT for $69 million. He built a pack. There's a Zuckerberg dog, a Bezos one, Warhol, Picasso. All $3,000 robot dogs wearing Hollywood silicone heads.

As they wander, they physically print AI-generated photos of what they observe. An Elon-faced robot dog is literally pooping out art.

It's promoting Beeple's exhibition at Node gallery in Palo Alto through June 30.

I've seen a lot of weird tech in 30 years. This is the first time a billionaire's face chased someone down the sidewalk, printing NFTs. We’ve officially run out of decades.

Stories I didn’t have time for this week, but you’ll want to read anyway.

All prompts from today’s issue, formatted and ready to save. Finding money, yours and relatives’. One page. Moving from SEO to GEO. Yours free.

Screenshot it. Save it to your photos. Send it to a friend who needs it more than they know.

🚀 The answer: C) 55 direct reports. He says a flat structure forces information to flow fast and gives people power based on what they can do, not what they know. Hard to argue with the results. Nvidia went from a chipmaker nobody talked about to the most valuable company on Earth.

Huang isn’t alone in weird leadership rules. Airbnb’s Brian Chesky ditched email entirely. He texts and calls instead. And he refuses to take meetings before 10 a.m. because he does his best work late at night. (Relatable.)

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