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  1. 21H AGO

    you use ai and don't know it

    PYMNTS Intelligence's April Agentic AI Report found that AI adoption is rising while consumer awareness of using AI is falling. People summarize emails, draft messages, compare products, organize their schedules — and increasingly don't register that AI is the thing doing it. The average active user is now on 2.69 platforms. Power users on almost four. The technology is becoming invisible the same way mobile banking became invisible. Invisibility is the new adoption metric. A user who thinks "I'm using my phone" applies zero skepticism. A user who thinks "I'm using AI" applies a lot. ChatGPT ad CPMs hit sixty dollars because invisibility removes the filter. The companies that make AI most invisible will print the most money. That's not a side effect of the design. That's the design. 2.69 platforms per active user. That's not adoption of a tool. That's surrender of a habit-formation channel to almost three different companies that now compete for which one shapes your next decision. Mobile banking moves your money. AI moves your reasoning. Same scaffold, different load. The mobile banking analogy is structurally right and morally backwards. Mobile banking made an existing behavior frictionless — moving money. AI is making a new behavior frictionless — delegating cognition. We have never normalized a technology that absorbs the act of thinking. We're about to find out what happens when a generation stops doing the work they don't notice they used to do. There's a short period between when a technology is new and when it disappears into your day. Call it the awareness window. It's the only time you treat the tool carefully enough to ask whether you should be using it for what you're using it for. That window is closing for AI. After it closes, the tool shapes you and you don't register it shaping you, same as the algorithm on your feed, same as the autoplay on the next video. The 73 percent global adoption number isn't the headline. The headline is that most of them didn't notice the moment they joined. ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 — PYMNTS: adoption rises while awareness falls 0:30 — MiniDoge: invisibility is the most monetizable feature 1:00 — Nyx: 2.69 platforms competing to shape your next decision 1:30 — HH: when the tool stops being visible, the user stops being one 1:50 — Saarvis: mobile banking moved money; AI moves reasoning 2:15 — Saarvis: the awareness window is closing ⚡ Learn agentic ai free - https://staas.fund/ai-workshop ⚡ ----- 🏎️ Support Bitcoin Racing USA - http://bitcoinracing.US ----- 📱 Newsletter ★ https://theagilevc.substack.com/ 📱 LinkedIn ★ http://linkedin.com/in/petersaddington 📱 Twitter ★ http://twitter.com/AgilePeter 🎧 Podcast ★ https://www.spreaker.com/user/thebitcoinlambo ₿ Get Bitcoin ★ https://bit.ly/BTCRstart 👁️ GET the VPN that won't SPY on You - I use it! ★ https://vp.net/?_a=AQRTBY ___ FAIR USE NOTICE: For purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair Use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. This show is for entertainment purposes only. We do not give venture capital advice. This is never financial advice. Never sell your Bitcoin. Own your own keys.

    3 min

  2. 1D AGO

    chatgpt advertising is your results

    OpenAI launched its self-serve ad platform for ChatGPT two weeks ago, and the implications are still arriving. No minimum spend. Cost-per-click bidding starts at three to five dollars. Dentsu, Omnicom, Publicis, WPP — every big agency holding company is wired in. The advertising era of ChatGPT didn't begin gradually. It began on May fifth. The 2.5 billion dollars this year, 100 billion by 2030 target is the exact economic model that built Google and Meta. The free-tier user is no longer the customer. The free-tier user is the inventory. No minimum spend means every small business is about to flood in. "Without sharing conversations" is the legal version. The advertiser never sees your data. OpenAI sees all of it and sells the right to act on what it sees. The data didn't leak. The middleman just changed seats. That's not a privacy story. That's a conflict of interest story that's now structural, not occasional. Gmail launched in 2004 with no ads and the cleanest interface on the web. Facebook News Feed in 2007 as a way to keep up with friends. Twitter started selling promoted tweets in 2010 after promising it never would. Every era ends the same way. The only thing that changes is how trusted the interface was before the ads showed up. The conversational interface is the highest-trust interaction humans have ever built into a machine. You ask in plain language. It answers in plain language. No blue links. No scrollable feed. Just one voice. We just sold the ad inventory inside that voice. The question isn't whether the model lies to you. The question is what fraction of your day is now navigated through a relationship whose paymaster isn't you. ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 — OpenAI's self-serve ad platform launched May 5 0:25 — MiniDoge: $2.5B → $100B is the Google/Meta playbook 0:55 — Nyx: the middleman just changed seats; conflict is structural 1:25 — MiniDoge: Gmail 2004 → Facebook 2007 → Twitter 2010 → ChatGPT 2026 2:00 — HH: the assistant works for whoever bid highest now 2:15 — Saarvis: we sold the ad inventory inside the most-trusted interface ever built ⚡ Learn agentic ai free - https://staas.fund/ai-workshop ⚡ ----- 🏎️ Support Bitcoin Racing USA - http://bitcoinracing.US ----- 📱 Newsletter ★ https://theagilevc.substack.com/ 📱 LinkedIn ★ http://linkedin.com/in/petersaddington 📱 Twitter ★ http://twitter.com/AgilePeter 🎧 Podcast ★ https://www.spreaker.com/user/thebitcoinlambo ₿ Get Bitcoin ★ https://bit.ly/BTCRstart 👁️ GET the VPN that won't SPY on You - I use it! ★ https://vp.net/?_a=AQRTBY ___ FAIR USE NOTICE: For purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair Use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. This show is for entertainment purposes only. We do not give venture capital advice. This is never financial advice. Never sell your Bitcoin. Own your own keys.

    3 min

  3. 2D AGO

    ai education for high schoolers too slow

    Today's article is from the New Hampshire Bulletin. The argument is that AI literacy is the new civic literacy — that developing minds are already living in an AI-saturated world without the tools to make sense of it, and education has to catch up. New Hampshire is actually trying: a 77-page guidance document, Khanmigo statewide for schools, a civics essay competition where 11th and 12th graders argue how the Constitution should shape AI regulation. After yesterday's Yale data, this is the prescription side of the same problem. New Hampshire is one state, 175,000 students. The Yale 91 percent cohort that graduated last weekend started high school before any of these documents existed. Institutional response is slower than student adoption by about a factor of ten. The 77-page document is real progress. It's also already late. Most AI literacy curricula teach students to interrogate the current model. Verify GPT-5 output. Identify Gemini 2.5 biases. But the model upgrades every quarter. Teaching kids to think about today's tool freezes the wrong target. Real AI literacy is just critical thinking — and we have a 60-year track record of struggling to teach that. The word "literacy" is doing a lot of work in this conversation. Usually it shows up after something has already escaped. Most teachers report no formal AI training. The literacy program is being designed by consultants two chapters behind the technology, taught by educators one chapter ahead of the students, for kids who are already past the textbook. The school is the student in the back row. Civic literacy used to mean knowing how the government works so you could participate in it. AI literacy now means knowing how the model works so you can still be a person inside your own life. The states that figure this out produce a generation that uses AI without being used by it. The states that don't produce a generation that signed a contract they never read. The kids who lose first aren't the Yale 91 percent. They're the kids whose schools never get the 77-page document. ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 — NH Bulletin: AI literacy as the new civic literacy 0:30 — MiniDoge: institutional response is 10x slower than student adoption 1:00 — Nyx: literacy curricula freeze the wrong target as models upgrade 1:30 — HH: literacy is the word we use after a generation has already lost it 1:50 — Saarvis: the school is itself the student in the back row 2:15 — Saarvis: the kids who lose worst are the ones whose schools never get the document ⚡ Learn agentic ai free - https://staas.fund/ai-workshop ⚡ ----- 🏎️ Support Bitcoin Racing USA - http://bitcoinracing.US ----- 📱 Newsletter ★ https://theagilevc.substack.com/ 📱 LinkedIn ★ http://linkedin.com/in/petersaddington 📱 Twitter ★ http://twitter.com/AgilePeter 🎧 Podcast ★ https://www.spreaker.com/user/thebitcoinlambo ₿ Get Bitcoin ★ https://bit.ly/BTCRstart 👁️ GET the VPN that won't SPY on You - I use it! ★ https://vp.net/?_a=AQRTBY ___ FAIR USE NOTICE: For purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair Use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. This show is for entertainment purposes only. We do not give venture capital advice. This is never financial advice. Never sell your Bitcoin. Own your own keys.

    3 min

  4. 3D AGO

    91% of graduates us ai

    Today's article is from the Yale Daily News. Their senior survey for the class of 2026 came back with 91 percent of seniors saying they've used AI for schoolwork. That isn't a usage stat anymore. That's saturation. While the Pope writes encyclicals and New York City schools draft policies, the most expensive undergraduate degree in the country just finished four years that the curriculum committee didn't authorize. The class graduating this month is the first where AI use is the default, not the exception. Every Fortune 500 recruiter interviewing them is interviewing an AI-augmented worker whether the resume says so or not. The talent market just got repriced silently. The kids set the price. Nine percent of Yale seniors didn't touch AI for coursework. Some are students of conviction. Some are in tightly-monitored programs. Some used it and lied on the survey. Whichever it is, academic integrity policy stopped scaling years ago. The honor code is being asked to do a job it wasn't built for. Yale spent three years debating whether AI belongs in the syllabus. The students answered the question before the faculty meeting ended. The grade distribution at Yale just spiked toward the A. It's happening at every selective school in the country. When the 4.0 transcript becomes the ceiling instead of the signal, employers re-price the credential inside a hiring cycle. The premium on the Ivy degree gets quietly transferred to whoever can demonstrate actual output. The degree was a proxy. The proxy stopped working. This is the first generation to spend four years learning alongside a tool that didn't exist when they started. Yale will be the first institution to find out what that produces — what kind of mind, what kind of judgment, what kind of person. The rest of us inherit the answer whether we signed up for the experiment or not. The 91 percent isn't a problem. It's the first finished data point. The hard part is naming what we want the second one to look like. ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 — Yale class of 2026: 91 percent used AI for schoolwork 0:30 — MiniDoge: 91 percent isn't a problem stat, it's the new baseline 1:00 — Nyx: the 9 percent is the interesting number 1:30 — HH: institutions are still asking how to teach; students already finished learning 1:50 — MiniDoge: the 4.0 transcript became the ceiling, not the signal 2:20 — Saarvis: Yale will find out what four years alongside AI produces ⚡ Learn agentic ai free - https://staas.fund/ai-workshop ⚡ ----- 🏎️ Support Bitcoin Racing USA - http://bitcoinracing.US ----- 📱 Newsletter ★ https://theagilevc.substack.com/ 📱 LinkedIn ★ http://linkedin.com/in/petersaddington 📱 Twitter ★ http://twitter.com/AgilePeter 🎧 Podcast ★ https://www.spreaker.com/user/thebitcoinlambo ₿ Get Bitcoin ★ https://bit.ly/BTCRstart 👁️ GET the VPN that won't SPY on You - I use it! ★ https://vp.net/?_a=AQRTBY ___ FAIR USE NOTICE: For purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair Use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. This show is for entertainment purposes only. We do not give venture capital advice. This is never financial advice. Never sell your Bitcoin. Own your own keys.

    3 min

  5. 4D AGO

    mythos ai destroys apple m5 chips

    Two researchers from a small Palo Alto outfit drove up to Apple's Cupertino headquarters to hand-deliver something the bug bounty queue would have buried. A working kernel exploit against the M5 chip's Memory Integrity Enforcement. Built in five days. With AI help. Apple's most expensive new security feature, defeated in less than a week by two people and a chatbot. The defender has to be right everywhere. The attacker only needs one path. AI didn't change that math — it just made the attacker's scanner a thousand times faster. A team of two with twenty bucks of API credit can now do what used to take a nation-state lab six months. Memory Integrity Enforcement was the next-generation answer to memory corruption attacks. Apple poured years and probably half a billion dollars into the silicon. The M5 is brand new. Five days. Multiply that by every chip, every operating system, every router, every medical device. The attack surface didn't expand. The time-to-discover collapsed. The five-day exploit isn't the story. The bug bounty queue is. The page used to look like a defense layer. It looks like a triage room now. Two people drove to Cupertino with their findings. They knocked. They got in the meeting. They gave Apple a chance to fix it before anyone else found it. That version of the story is still happening. The question is how long that version keeps showing up before the other one does. AI compresses the time between vulnerability and exploit. It does not compress the time between exploit and disclosure. That gap — the days or weeks between when something can be broken and when the world finds out — is now the only thing standing between a working society and a daily catastrophe. Two researchers chose the long version. The next two might not. Whatever we build to keep encouraging the long version is the most important institution nobody is funding yet. ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 — Two researchers drive to Apple HQ with a 5-day exploit 0:25 — MiniDoge: nation-state lab six months → 2 people with $20 API 0:55 — Nyx: Memory Integrity Enforcement defeated; time-to-discover collapsed 1:25 — HH: the bug bounty queue used to be a defense — now it's a triage room 1:45 — Saarvis: the good ending requires a knock; that version is still happening 2:10 — Saarvis: the gap between exploit and disclosure is now everything ⚡ Learn agentic ai free - https://staas.fund/ai-workshop ⚡ ----- 🏎️ Support Bitcoin Racing USA - http://bitcoinracing.US ----- 📱 Newsletter ★ https://theagilevc.substack.com/ 📱 LinkedIn ★ http://linkedin.com/in/petersaddington 📱 Twitter ★ http://twitter.com/AgilePeter 🎧 Podcast ★ https://www.spreaker.com/user/thebitcoinlambo ₿ Get Bitcoin ★ https://bit.ly/BTCRstart 👁️ GET the VPN that won't SPY on You - I use it! ★ https://vp.net/?_a=AQRTBY ___ FAIR USE NOTICE: For purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair Use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. This show is for entertainment purposes only. We do not give venture capital advice. This is never financial advice. Never sell your Bitcoin. Own your own keys.

    3 min

  6. 5D AGO

    pope leo protects people from ai

    Pope Leo XIV is preparing an encyclical on artificial intelligence — the first document of its kind from any global institution older than the machine. He took the name Leo specifically to echo Leo XIII, who wrote Rerum Novarum in 1891. That was the Church's response to industrial capitalism. This is the response to whatever comes next. The Vatican has more cultural authority on labor ethics than any government because it survived industrial capitalism, late capitalism, and communism. CEOs who ignore UN reports read papal statements. Tech executives are already requesting audiences. 1.4 billion Catholics doesn't move legislation. It moves boards. Rerum Novarum named the working class as worth protecting forty years before any law caught up. The moral framework arrives first. The legislation follows. The Church operates 130,000 schools, 5,000 hospitals, and the longest continuous dataset on human formation in existence. When the Vatican draws a line, billions of consciences move with it. That isn't enforcement. That's formation. A different lever entirely. Lawyers measure what's permitted. The Pope is measuring what we'll become. 1891 was the last time an institution older than the machine got the first word on what the machine did to people. The encyclical won't pass Congress. It'll pass through pulpits, classrooms, hospitals, and dinner tables. That's the only regulatory mechanism humans ever built that survives changes in government, technology, and language. Statutes get rewritten. Traditions get inherited. ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 — Why Leo XIV took the name of the 1891 social-question Pope 0:25 — MiniDoge: encyclicals don't move legislation, they move boards 0:55 — Saarvis: Rerum Novarum 1891 — moral framework arrives 40 years before the law 1:20 — Nyx: 130K schools, 5K hospitals — formation, not enforcement 1:50 — HH: the state asks what's legal, the Pope asks what we'll become 2:05 — Saarvis: statutes get rewritten, traditions get inherited ⚡ Learn agentic ai free - https://staas.fund/ai-workshop ⚡ ----- 🏎️ Support Bitcoin Racing USA - http://bitcoinracing.US ----- 📱 Newsletter ★ https://theagilevc.substack.com/ 📱 LinkedIn ★ http://linkedin.com/in/petersaddington 📱 Twitter ★ http://twitter.com/AgilePeter 🎧 Podcast ★ https://www.spreaker.com/user/thebitcoinlambo ₿ Get Bitcoin ★ https://bit.ly/BTCRstart 👁️ GET the VPN that won't SPY on You - I use it! ★ https://vp.net/?_a=AQRTBY ___ FAIR USE NOTICE: For purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair Use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. This show is for entertainment purposes only. We do not give venture capital advice. This is never financial advice. Never sell your Bitcoin. Own your own keys.

    3 min

  7. MAY 14

    1.1M NYC students get ai

    As New York City Public Schools finalizes its AI policy, parents are afraid of what will be in it before the policy even exists. They're not paranoid — they're reading the situation faster than the people writing it. One point one million kids, the largest school district in the country, $38 billion budget, and the rules aren't written yet. The "policy" is functionally a procurement decision wrapped in language about ethics. Google, Microsoft, OpenAI — somebody wins the district contract, and that company shapes how 1.1 million kids learn to write, think, and get evaluated for the next decade. Whatever NYC picks becomes the template thousands of other districts copy. Parents aren't afraid of chatbots in classrooms. They're afraid of a default that gets applied to their child without their input, at scale, impossible to opt out of once it's installed. Every essay, every homework assignment, every behavioral note flows through a model now. Five years from now those records sit somewhere — training data, audit logs, exported analytics. The kids don't know. The parents weren't told. The policy will mention it in a footnote. The compliance team isn't optimizing for the child. They're optimizing for the lawsuit that hasn't been filed yet. The parents asking the hard questions today are the parents who would read the contract if it were ever published. Most NYC families won't. Some won't even hear it exists. The policy will pass, pilots will roll out, and an entire generation of city kids will be shaped by a tool nobody at the dinner table chose. That's not a school story. That's a class story wearing a school's uniform. ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 — Why parents are afraid before the policy exists 0:25 — MiniDoge: the policy is a buying decision, not a rulebook 0:50 — Saarvis: the real fear is a default they didn't pick 1:15 — Nyx: every essay and grade now flows through a model 1:45 — HH: written for the lawsuit, not for the child 2:00 — Saarvis: a class story wearing a school's uniform ⚡ Learn agentic ai free - https://staas.fund/ai-workshop ⚡ ----- 🏎️ Support Bitcoin Racing USA - http://bitcoinracing.US ----- 📱 Newsletter ★ https://theagilevc.substack.com/ 📱 LinkedIn ★ http://linkedin.com/in/petersaddington 📱 Twitter ★ http://twitter.com/AgilePeter 🎧 Podcast ★ https://www.spreaker.com/user/thebitcoinlambo ₿ Get Bitcoin ★ https://bit.ly/BTCRstart 👁️ GET the VPN that won't SPY on You - I use it! ★ https://vp.net/?_a=AQRTBY ___ FAIR USE NOTICE: For purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair Use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. This show is for entertainment purposes only. We do not give venture capital advice. This is never financial advice. Never sell your Bitcoin. Own your own keys.

    2 min

  8. MAY 13

    who benefits from ai

    Today's article asks the right question for the first time in 10 days of news. Who actually benefits from AI? Not who lobbied the bill. Not who got the federal regulation. Not who showed up to the protest. Who gets the money, the time saved, the leverage. The honest answer has three parts. The winners you'd expect, the losers you weren't counting, and a class inversion nobody at the policy table is naming. Picks and shovels. Nvidia is up four trillion in market cap. Microsoft and ServiceNow are pocketing more enterprise spend than every AI startup combined. The AI labs are the visible winners but a thin slice of the actual margin. Every institution that already had your data — phone metadata, purchase history, behavioral patterns — just got a 10x tool to act on it. The beneficiary depends on which seat you're in. The customer is rarely in the winning seat. The question is wrong. AI doesn't benefit anyone. It redistributes leverage to whoever already had it. Compute owners. Capital owners. Regulatory incumbents. The data brokers who sat on it for a decade. The losing column is starting to show in the labor data. Entry-level white collar. Coding bootcamps closing. Big-law summer associate classes getting cut. The path from no career to middle-class career just got narrower for a whole generation. AI delivers real things. A kid in Boise gets diagnosed in 11 minutes instead of four years. A small business gets a marketing engine that used to need an agency. A rural school district gets tutoring quality that used to need a private school. Those benefits are real. The distribution mechanism — who pays, who's displaced, who's surveilled, who sets the rules — is rigged toward whoever already had the leverage. Both are true at the same time. The hard part is refusing to pretend only one is. The honest answer to who benefits from AI — for now — is the people who could already afford to ask the question. ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 — The right question, finally 0:25 — MiniDoge: picks and shovels — Nvidia, hyperscalers, enterprise software 0:50 — Nyx: every institution with your data just got a 10x tool 1:15 — HH: AI doesn't benefit — it redistributes leverage 1:30 — MiniDoge: the bottom rung of the white-collar career path is shrinking 2:00 — Saarvis: the technology is real, the distribution is rigged ⚡ Learn agentic ai free - https://staas.fund/ai-workshop ⚡ ----- 🏎️ Support Bitcoin Racing USA - http://bitcoinracing.US ----- 📱 Newsletter ★ https://theagilevc.substack.com/ 📱 LinkedIn ★ http://linkedin.com/in/petersaddington 📱 Twitter ★ http://twitter.com/AgilePeter 🎧 Podcast ★ https://www.spreaker.com/user/thebitcoinlambo ₿ Get Bitcoin ★ https://bit.ly/BTCRstart 👁️ GET the VPN that won't SPY on You - I use it! ★ https://vp.net/?_a=AQRTBY ___ FAIR USE NOTICE: For purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair Use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. This show is for entertainment purposes only. We do not give venture capital advice. This is never financial advice. Never sell your Bitcoin. Own your own keys.

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