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Hey, Jhon! |
Welcome back to the #1 AI newsletter in the world! |
Here’s what we have today: |
Mario 64 leaves the TV and lands on a desk.
A quarter of the web now carries AI-written text.
Chrome can fill in order numbers and flight details for you.
Alzheimer’s research gets an AI co-scientist.
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Mixed Reality |
Mario 64 Steps Off the Screen |
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Mario 64 came out in 1996 as Mario’s first 3D game. |
For almost 30 years, that 3D world has stayed stuck behind a flat screen. |
Now somebody decided to put the game on his desk. |
He built it for a PICO headset in mixed reality. |
That way he could put the game in an actual room instead of a separate virtual one. |
The levels show up as real 3D objects you can lean over and look into. |
It runs at 90 FPS, and that makes it 3x smoother than the original. |
He made it with Claude and PICO’s own dev tool (he says the two made it “quite straightforward”.) |
But it wasn’t only him behind the move. |
The groundwork came from a lot of other people. |
Fans rebuilt the game’s code by hand, working backward from the original cartridge, and finished a full version in 2019. |
It’s what fans have used ever since to run the game on computers. |
He’s been chipping away at this idea for a while. |
An earlier build of his on a Meta Quest 3 let you pinch Mario out of a floating screen and set him down in the room. |
This time, it’s the entire game. |
He’s upfront that he owns an original copy and that the project has no ties to Nintendo or PICO. |
Our take: Moving a game into a headset used to take someone who knew game engines and headset code inside out. AI made that part straightforward for him, and what’s left is the idea and the patience to see it through. With that bar lowered, a lot more old favorites could start showing up in more unexpected places. |
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Together with Symphony |
Your Morning Brief From an AI Team |
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A buyer messages to say your checkout page won’t load. |
By the time you see it on your lunch break, they’ve already bought somewhere else. |
When you’re the only one keeping an eye on things, small stuff slips through, and you find out after it’s cost you a sale. |
Symphony by Wix gives you a team of AI agents that keep watch in the background and come to you with what needs fixing. |
Every morning, you get a short brief with your numbers and your wins for the week. |
It flags the stuff you’d miss, like a broken checkout or an invoice nobody paid, and lines up the fix. |
You only talk to one AI, and it hands each task to the right agent. |
Nothing goes out until you approve it. |
It works with the tools you already use, and you don’t need a Wix site to start. |
That way, the next broken checkout shows up in your morning brief instead of in a lost sale. |
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Web |
AI Has a Hand in 1 in 4 Webpages |
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The web you scroll through every day picked up a new co-writer over the last few years. |
To see how much of it AI has touched, a group at UC Berkeley and the University of Washington pulled more than 5 million pages from a public web archive going back to 2019. |
Then they checked each one for AI-written or AI-edited text. |
By August 2026, one in four pages had some. |
Before 2022, that number was close to zero. |
Over the last 1.5 years, it’s been climbing faster than at any point before. |
It isn’t spread evenly, either. |
Government and school websites carry far less of it than .com sites do. |
The pages the rest of the web links to most come in low as well (roughly one in nine showing AI text). |
Out in the quieter corners of the web, where pages barely get linked at all, it’s more than one in four. |
Our take: A page with AI in it isn’t automatically a worse page. People use AI to clean up writing they’d never have felt confident publishing on their own. What matters is whether someone checked it before it went live, and you should expect that from anything you read online, no matter who or what helped write it. |
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Coming in Hot |
AI Tools of the Day |
🎬 Vidu Q4 Preview turns as many as 15 reference images into one 4K video and keeps a character’s voice the same from any clips you upload.
🧭 Ariso keeps track of what you’ve promised people and finds times that work by checking in with your friends’ own AI assistants.
🗣️ Jumpspeak gets you holding real conversations out loud in Spanish, French, and more, with short guided lessons in between.
🍽️ Karpo texts you dinner spots and weekend plans in iMessage based on your taste, and it can book the table or grab event tickets for you.
🤖 Hob picks the strongest open AI model your computer can run and works offline on your docs and PDFs, free and open source on GitHub.
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Interesting AI |
Wall Art You Can Talk Into Existence |
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Swapping art on a wall means buying a new print and hanging it all over again. |
Jitrainno’s Canvas lets you hang a piece of art once and change it whenever you want by saying a few words out loud. |
Ask for something like a watercolor golden retriever, and AI will paint it right onto the frame. |
The screen is color e-paper, a matte, paper-like display that doesn’t light up. |
It reflects the light in the room the way a printed poster does. |
It runs on a battery rated for up to two years, and it comes in a real wood frame. |
You can also send your own photos to it from your phone. |
It even turns the picture around on its own when you hang the frame the other way. |
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Browsers |
Chrome Has a New Trick |
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Every time you need to find something like an order number, you end up searching for much longer than you’d want. |
You switch tabs and scroll through your files and inbox looking for the confirmation, trying to remember where you saved it. |
Well, Chrome can now do that digging for you. |
Google added a new trick to Chrome’s autofill. |
When you click into a form, it can suggest details it pulls straight from your Gmail. |
Order numbers and package tracking come up when a store asks about a return or a missing delivery. |
Your flight bookings show up when an airline’s form wants the details. |
You don’t have to leave the page or go searching your inbox for any of it. |
It works for people who use Gemini in Chrome and have Personal Intelligence turned on. |
Google says sensitive details stay encrypted, and you can switch it off or choose what it can access in Chrome’s settings. |
Our take: Autofill has handled your name and address for years. Reading your inbox is a bigger step, and the people who get the most out of it will be the ones who decide what it can see before the first form, not after. |
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Health |
AI Joins the Alzheimer’s Lab |
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A spreadsheet of blood tests and brain scans from a few hundred people can keep a scientist busy for weeks. |
Labs that study brain diseases have a lot of that data, and plenty of it comes from experiments that never made it into a paper. |
One of the people behind this project says they’re “leaving a lot of intelligence on the table.” |
A group of 18 institutions working on Alzheimer’s and related diseases now has an open-source AI co-scientist to help with that. |
It’s called OpenScientist. |
You give it a research question and the data, and it comes up with ideas to test and runs the numbers itself. |
Every step it takes is laid out, which means a person can go back and check it. |
In one test, it got data from 325 people along with the plan the scientists had written before running the analysis themselves. |
It picked out the same blood marker they’d found best at predicting whether Alzheimer’s plaque shows up on a brain scan, and its numbers matched theirs almost exactly. |
On another project, it reached conclusions in 10 rounds that the team compared to several days of expert work. |
The data doesn’t have to leave each institution either, since the AI works on it where it sits. |
The catch: Its early runs made mistakes that somebody paying close attention would’ve caught. It read empty cells as zeros, which labeled people with no brain scan as plaque-free, and it counted duplicate records as different people. The team fixed both with cleaner data and better instructions, and they call the results “strong but imperfect.” |
Our take: Publishing exactly where the AI slipped is the right move, and it’s rarer than it should be. Scientists aren’t going to hand their unpublished data to a tool they can’t trust, and showing the mistakes alongside the wins is how this one earns that trust. |
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Prompt of the Day |
Overturn My Call |
Important Note: You’ll need to click the button to get the complete prompt. |
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This prompt puts three calls you made this week under video review. You finish by reversing the one call still open to reversal, before the session ends. |
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That’s all for Thursday! |
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Thanks for reading, |
— There’s An AI For That |
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