😺 So I guess everyone's a developer now...

PLUS: Meta's AI can read your mind?!

Welcome, humans.

The most slept-on AI release in last week’s AI onslaught was definitely Genie 3. It’s truly breathtaking. Here’s one example: DeepMind worked with the artist Rui Huang and recreated one of their pieces of art and turned it into a playable demo:

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis sat down with Logan Kilpatrick to talk about the path forward for Genie 3, and how Google could be about to combine many of its top capability models to create a single omni model that “can do everything.”

But the most interesting part of the interview was the section on how to actually release the Genie: potentially as some sort of social gaming feed where you can share your worlds with others to play (consider this a +1 upvote for that idea, plz & ty!).

The most unexpected part of the interview? Probably the prospect of DeepMind eventually becoming a gaming company (y’know, once they solve AGI)…

Here’s what happened in AI today:

Vercel released v0.app to build complete apps from text prompts.
Claude added conversation memory and search features.
NVIDIA and AMD can sell AI chips to China with 15% US government cut.
Meta won brain modeling competition with TRIBE prediction system.

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Vercel just made making AI apps as easy as its ever been (and turned everyone into a developer)

Vercel just dropped v0.app, and it's basically trying to make every product manager, marketer, and designer into a software developer overnight. The company rebranded its v0.dev vibe-coding tool to v0.app with a bold promise: describe any app idea in a single prompt, and you'll get a complete working application—frontend, backend, copy, and logic included.

Here's the key difference: with the old v0.dev, you'd prompt for something, then prompt again for fixes, better design, or added functionality. v0.app handles all that automatically using what they call “agentic intelligence”; it plans, adjusts, and improves the code without being told.

With 3.5M+ users, v0 has struck a nerve. But here's what's interesting: while it started as a developer tool, most of its growth came from non-developers. Companies like Cox Enterprises, WPP, and Belk are now using it for entire teams of PMs, designers, and marketers.

Here's what v0.app does for you automatically:

Plans out work step-by-step for your request.
Searches the web and returns results with citations.
Reads files and inspects live websites with screenshots.
Generates design inspiration and manages to-dos.
Spots errors and implements integrations with your favorite tools.

According to GM Zeb Hermann, they “learned from other agentic projects like Codex and Claude Code” that the key is making agents both highly capable and user-steerable, “getting the interaction right so anyone can build cool apps.”

What kind of cool apps can you make? Some real-world examples include:

Startup MVPs with landing pages, onboarding flows, and working dashboards.
E-commerce storefronts (perfect for designers).
Survey apps connected to actual databases.
Custom slide decks with editable layouts and live content.

The timing is perfect, too. While AI coding startups are struggling with unsustainable pricing models, v0 implemented token-based pricing back in May 2024 and sells tokens at cost. Vercel believes “tokens are a commodity” (and should be sold like one), so their business metrics are positive (because they're targeting the right users).

Our take: v0 is interesting because it's not just making coding easier, it's making app building accessible to people with domain expertise but no technical skills.

Got a great idea for your industry, but can't code? Instead of waiting for developers to help you, now you can go prototype it yourself."

The real question then becomes “what will you build when ALL coding barriers disappear?”

If you're wondering where to start, may we introduce you to the Japanese concept of Ikigai?

If you focus on the intersection of 1. what you love, 2. what you're good at, 3. what the world needs, and 4. what you can be paid for (hello, Ikigai!), you'll have endless projects worth building—regardless of whether AGI arrives tomorrow or in 20 years.

Sure, what the world needs and what you can be paid for will shift over time, but if you're building in a domain you love and leveraging what you're good at today (and getting even better at it), you can always adapt and find new ways to create value.

So how do you actually find your ikigai? Lucky for you, we've got the perfect prompt… (see below).

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Prompt Tip of the Day.

So, you want to find your personal IKIGAI? Here’s a short prompt (inspired by this post from Garima Shah) you can try to turn ChatGPT into your own personal IKIGAI coach:

“Act as an Ikigai coach by asking me detailed questions about my life. Continue asking questions until you have a complete understanding of where my passions, proficiencies, and purpose intersect in a profitable way. Your goal is to develop a deep understanding of what I love to do and how I can make money at it.”

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*Murf AI turns your text into human-like speech in 200+ voices, so you can narrate presentations or create audiobooks without recording anything yourself.
Pika now has audio-driven lip sync where you upload any audio file and it makes your AI avatar sing, rap, or act in perfect sync in under 6 seconds.
NVIDIA unveiled a bunch of new Omniverse libraries and Cosmos models that let you capture real-world environments with sensors, recreate them as 3D simulations, then train robots to navigate and reason through physical environments.
Seed Live Interpret translates your voice between Chinese and English in real-time with a 2-3 second delay (paper).
Claude now searches your past conversations and recalls previous discussions so you don't have to re-explain everything when you start a new chat.

Around the Horn.

It’s really, REALLY important you understand what “AI psychosis” looks like, and understand the limits of what AI can do atm…

NVIDIA and AMD are now allowed to sell high-end AI chips to China so long as they pay the US government a 15% cut of the revenue.
Apple will add OpenAI’s new model, GPT-5, to iOS 26 and MacOS Tahoe 26 when the updates happen next month—also, Apple is working on a new Siri that can operate apps for you using voice commands (and is testing it with real apps).
Meta just won a brain modeling competition with TRIBE, which predicts how your brain responds to movies, audio, and text without needing to scan you (code, data).

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