Unsupervised Learning NO. 480

UPDATES

Hey, hope you’re doing well!

• Lots of friends going through hard times right now. Been a bit down lately because I feel like I’m not helping enough. Like there’s just too much stacked against everyone right now. 😔

• I think the end of the universe will only have two things: 1) cockroaches, and 2) fireflies.ai agents joining empty Zoom calls.

• Starting to believe action is the antidote to anxiety (and tons of other negative feelings).

• My new essay on what happens if companies like Google just become giant Startup incubators…

🎙️ I sat down with Bar-el Tayouri, Head of Mend AI, to talk about the future of AI security—and why it’s evolving faster than any category before it. We covered malicious models, agent orchestration risks, the explosion of AI components, and how Mend is tackling AI threat modeling, asset discovery, and attack simulation. If you're building with AI, this one's essential. ^SPONSORED

CYBERSECURITY

The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked
TeleMessage, the company modifying Signal for government archiving, got hacked, leaking lots of messages and data.

"I would say the whole process took about 15-20 minutes… It wasn’t much effort at all."

Another example of where the end-to-end encryption itself isn’t the problem. It’s usually the crappy implementation that gets you.

Examples: AES is fine, but store the keys nearby. E2E implementation is fine, but we need a government backdoor. And now—E2E is fine, but we need message backups. 👿 TECHNICAL ANALYSIS | 404 MEDIA COVERAGE

Microsoft makes all new accounts passwordless by default
Microsoft is now setting up all new accounts as passwordless by default, pushing everyone towards passkeys instead. Love it. LINK

If You Meta Glasses, Check Your Privacy Settings
Meta updated the privacy policy for Ray-Ban glasses, making AI features default and using voice/image data unless you manually delete recordings. LINK

Find every AI app today
Companies are apparently using an average of 26 different GenAI tools—most of them added without a security review. That stat’s from Nudge Security, who built a tool that shows you every AI app your org has ever used. You also see who brought it in, when, and what it connects to. Wild. There’s a free trial if you want to run it on your own org. TRY IT ^SPONSORED

Microsoft Moves Users To Edge for Password Autofill
Microsoft is killing the password autofill in Authenticator and pushing everyone over to the Edge browser for that feature. LINK

AI

Claude Integrations
Anthropic rolled out what I’m basically calling Remote MCPs, which is a way for Claude to connect directly with tools like Jira, Zapier, and others using their own MCP servers. LINK

People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Powered Fantasies
Individuals are forming intense, sometimes delusional spiritual beliefs involving AI, leading to separation from their loved ones. LINK

Google NotebookLM Upgraded With Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google's AI research and note-taking tool, NotebookLM, has been upgraded to use the Gemini 2.5 Flash model for its text features. NotebookLM is still one of the most innovative uses of AI I’ve seen. LINK

Make Your Chatbot Use Interjections (Oh Wow!)
Research found that chatbots using simple interjections like 'Hmm' or 'Aww' feel significantly more human and engaging, and people like using them more. LINK

Mark Zuckerberg Says AI is Coming for Ad Agencies
Zuckerberg basically said Meta's plan is to use AI to create ads for businesses, potentially removing human-powered creative agencies altogether. LINK

Meta Forecasted It Would Make $1.4T from AI By 2035
Unsealed court docs show Meta's internal forecast sees them making up to $1.4 trillion by 2035 by rolling out AI to more of their businesses. LINK

TECHNOLOGY

Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Eye-scanning Orb Comes to the US
Sam Altman's Worldcoin project, which scans your eyeballs for something crypto-related (yuk) to prove your humanity, is now rolling out in the US. This feels like the most tone-deaf thing ever. Like how many dystopia signals do we have happening at one time right now? Maybe it’s just required infrastructure (see below). LINK

Altman and Musk Are Racing to Build the ‘Everything App’
They’re competing to build the ultimate 'everything app', blending finance, social, and more into a single interface—similar to what the Chinese have. For Sam it’s part of the Worldcoin project above, and for Musk I think it’s X.

I think Altman’s play might be the following (my theory):

• He knows the jobs are going away

• He knows we’ll need UBI to pay the people

• He knows that’ll be a government function

• He knows the government doesn’t have the tech to do it

• So he’s been buddying up with the government for years

• So Worldcoin is basically the way we’ll pay and interact with people to give them UBI and whatever else through the government, once AG/SI kicks in

That’s my read, anyway. Or at least one possibility. LINK

Waymo Says It Will Add 2,000 More Robotaxis In 2026
Waymo is adding 2,000 more Jaguar I-Paces, planning for 3,500 total vehicles by 2026. Every time I ride in one I know it’s the future. LINK

Apple Expects to Source Over 19 Billion Chips From US Factories This Year
Apple plans on buying over 19 billion chips made in the US next year, including millions from TSMC Arizona. But these are simpler ICs, not like the difficult latest-iPhone chips. LINK

HUMANS

India Attacks Infrastructure Within Pakistan
India launched attacks against 5 areas of what they call terrorist infrastructure within Pakistan. “Our actions have been focused, measured, and nonescalatory in nature. No Pakistani military facilities have been targeted.” LINK

Something Extraordinary Is Happening to the Job Market
The gap between young college grad unemployment and overall unemployment has hit an all-time low recently. "When you think...what generative AI can do...it’s the kind of things that young college grads have done." See this week’s Member Essay. LINK

Why We Probably Don’t Live In A Simulation
This paper makes a compelling argument that the computational resources required to simulate our universe are nearly impossible. LINK

Warren Buffett Stepping Down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO
Warren Buffett, 94, announced he's asking the board to make Greg Abel the CEO at the end of 2025. LINK

Mcdonald’s Had Its Biggest Sales Drop Since COVID
McDonald's just reported its largest US sales decline since early 2020. This has to be a primary economic metric, no? LINK

DISCOVERY

🔥 Why Do Anything in Life (A Graphic) LINK

Turn any codebase into a single, clean prompt
Promptor — A slick little macOS utility that converts entire code project folders into clean, local LLM prompts. LINK

Github’s Top 10 Projects
GitHub highlighted the top 10 open source AI projects, revealing a major shift towards agents and MCP integration. LINK

Minimum Viable Blog
How to create a super basic static blog using only a simple HTML template and a Python script. LINK

AI, Self-Doubt, and the Limits of Reflection
Someone used AI chatbots as a mirror to explore their self-doubt and cognitive abilities, even developing a system to track their 'cognitive altitude'. LINK

Why You’re Struggling to Make the Hard Call LINK

Blast
Blast — This high-performance serving engine helps run web browsing AI agents quickly, efficiently, and concurrently. LINK

The Prompt is the Value
A great piece saying the prompt writing process often holds more value and insight than the AI's actual output. LINK

Greg Isenberg’s Post on Starting a New SaaS Company to $100K/month
An extremely high quality post on exactly what to do. I would disagree on a couple of steps, but this is worth a $1,000 course, and he put it out for free. LINK

Munger’s Guide to Clear Thinking LINK

Brian Eno's Theory Of Democracy
Game theory models struggle to explain democratic decline, but Brian Eno's artistic ideas on generating useful variety offer an alternative. LINK

A Knife Steel Comparison Tool
This web tool lets you visually compare dozens of knife steels using normalized data from multiple reliable sources. LINK

The Vocal Effects of Daft Punk
The specific gear Daft Punk used for their iconic robot vocals across their albums. LINK

Sim Studio – Open-source Agent Workflow GUI
Sim Studio — This is a really clean-looking open-source GUI for visually building out, testing, and then optimizing your AI agent workflows. LINK