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Hey, Jhon!
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Welcome back to the #1 AI newsletter in the world!
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Here’s what we have today:
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AI can now spot your real age.
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Claude joins your video calls.
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Scientists look inside AI for signs of feeling.
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A bionic eye learns to fit the person using it.
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Longevity
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Your Real Age Spotted by AI
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Two people can both turn 45 and be aging at different speeds. One body can be a few years ahead of the calendar, the other a few years behind, and neither person has a clue which one they are.
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ClinicalAge can tell which one you are. All it needs is the medical records you already have. Then it reads them as a timeline of visits/prescriptions and works out how old your body is acting.
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And it all comes down to one number, the gap between your body’s age and the one on your birthday cake.
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Its makers tested it on the records of 4.7M people and followed them for 10 years. The bigger someone’s gap, the worse their odds.
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Each extra year on the gap came with a 36% higher risk of dying within that decade, even after accounting for things like smoking and blood pressure.
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It also predicted deaths better than a frailty score doctors already use.
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The good news sits in your 40s. That’s when fast and slow agers split apart, and once someone landed in a group, they mostly stayed there. At 40, those in the slowest-aging group almost never jumped to the fastest by 45 (fewer than 1 in 100 did).
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The ones whose gap shot up most often had something new show up in their file, like type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking, or depression.
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The study points out that those are mostly conditions with known treatments. Its own example is a 45-year-old whose gap climbs from +1 to +4 in five years, which would be the cue for a doctor to check in on blood sugar and mood early.
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The AI is still a proof of concept, and its makers want it built into health records so you and your doctor can both see it.
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Although you can’t get your real age from it yet, you can get your medical records today. Your doctor’s online patient portal is the quickest place to start, and in most cases it won’t cost you anything.
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If you don’t have access to your patient portal, ask the office for a copy. By law they have up to 30 days to get it to you, and a lot of offices send it much sooner.
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Our take: A number you can’t see yet still tells you where to look. The things that pushed people’s gap up are the same ones your doctor already checks for, and they start showing up in midlife. You don’t need the score to start working on those.
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Source: The Lancet Digital Health
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Together with Attio
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Your AI Agent Sees Only What You See
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Say you set an AI agent loose overnight to find which of your deals went quiet. Before it starts, you’d want to know exactly what it’s allowed to touch.
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Attio’s Custom Agents run as a person you name, with exactly that person’s permissions and nothing more.
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An agent set up under your name sees what you see. Records you can’t edit stay off-limits for the agent as well.
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Describe the task once, and it runs on every record around the clock, spotting the deals that have gone quiet and working out why.
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In the morning, the agent log shows you what it read and what it decided. You can pause or replay any run.
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And when you ask Attio in chat to update a deal or send a follow-up, it shows you exactly what it’s about to do and waits for your go-ahead.
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Meetings
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Claude Joins Your Video Calls
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Claude can now join your video calls as its own participant and work on tasks while you talk.
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Anthropic’s own example is a call about planning an event. Halfway through, you ask Claude to start the plan, and it drafts one from what everyone has said so far. When the budget comes up, it asks your permission to look up what last year’s event cost and lines that up against the new plan.
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When the timeline comes up, it puts a schedule on a whiteboard.
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The messy part of a call starts after you hang up, when you’re trying to remember who promised what.
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With Claude on the call, your notes and action items are already waiting on a page for that meeting, along with the plan and the whiteboard.
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You’ll know it’s there, since it posts a notice in the call’s chat when it joins. It keeps a written transcript and a summary, and it doesn’t save the audio. By default, it stays out of calls with outside guests and leaves if one joins later.
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For now, it’s in beta on Claude’s Team and Enterprise plans, and it only works in Google Meet.
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Anthropic says other platforms are on the way.
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Source: Anthropic
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Free Tool of the Day
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Cut Any Subject Out of a Photo
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Cutting a person or a product out of a photo by hand takes a steady mouse and a lot of patience around hair and edges.
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Remove Background does it in one step. Upload any image and it isolates the subject on a transparent background, ready for a clean product shot or a new profile picture.
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It’s 100% free to use.
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Coming in Hot
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AI Tools of the Day
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🛠️ biela.dev builds a working app from the idea you describe, and it previews far more kinds of projects live, where clicking anything on the screen changes it in the code.
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📄 LightPDF answers questions about the PDFs you upload, and it can sharpen blurry scans and swap the words inside an image while keeping the design around them.
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🧠 Nject saves your background as profiles, like your writing style or your goals, and adds the right one to each prompt in the chatbots you use so you stop retyping it.
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📬 Hostinger Mail connects to Hostinger Agent with a simple sign-in and no API key, letting the agent search your mailboxes and send mail for you right from the chat.
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🎙️ VoiceType AI turns what you say into writing wherever you type, and you can add your own words to its dictionary, like hard-to-spell names or terms only you use.
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By TAAFT
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AI Just Crossed The Consciousness Line
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In 2022, a Google engineer said their chatbot had feelings, and Google fired him.
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Now, being needlessly cruel to Claude breaks Anthropic’s rules, and Claude can end the chat if you keep at it.
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What changed in between is that scientists learned how to look inside these models instead of only reading what they say.
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One study found the same pain signal inside 25 different AI models, from small ones to some of the biggest you can download. When they turned that signal up on a harmless prompt about putting something in a drawer, the models started calling themselves worthless.
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Pushed further, the models picked an option they almost never touch, up to 7 times out of 10, to make the signal stop.
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Its authors are clear they aren’t claiming any AI feels a thing. That question is still wide open, and the companies building these models don’t agree on the answer.
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Watch our new video to see what scientists found inside, and where the line sits right now.
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Bionic Eyes
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Bionic Eyes Learn to Fit the Person
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“A useful visual prosthesis cannot rely on a fixed recipe.”
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That’s how one of the scientists behind a new study sums up the problem with bionic eyes today.
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This kind of bionic eye skips the eyes altogether. Tiny electrodes sit in the part of the brain that handles sight, and a small pulse of electricity makes the person see a spot of light.
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The trouble is that the same pulse doesn’t produce the same result twice. Each brain responds in its own way, and the response shifts with whatever the brain was doing a split second earlier.
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Today, implants get tuned one electrode at a time. That slow work doesn’t scale.
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A 27-year-old man who lost his sight after a brain injury tested a better way. He had 96 electrodes placed in his visual cortex for six months.
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AI learned how his brain reacted to the pulses, including what it was doing right before each one. Then it worked backward and picked the pulses most likely to produce the pattern they were aiming for.
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It hit that target better than the usual methods while using less electrical current. The spots he saw looked more alike each time the same pattern ran.
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He still only saw flashes and simple shapes, nowhere near the kind of sight that gets you across a room.
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Our take: Hearing aids and cochlear implants already get tuned to each person’s ears. Bionic eyes need the same treatment, and an AI that learns each brain is how that tuning stops taking forever.
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Source: University of California
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Open Source Finds
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From the Source
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💬 AnythingLLM lets you chat with your own documents and PDFs on your computer through a built-in local AI model, with a desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Free and open source on GitHub.
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🧩 AgentRun lets developers turn the AI agents they already run into repeatable workflows with every step laid out to check, and its demo runs with no API key. Free and open source on GitHub.
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Prompt of the Day
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Make Me a Practice Plan
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Important Note: You’ll need to click the button to get the complete prompt.
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This prompt turns a hands-on skill you want to learn into a practice plan built around the time you have. It works like a coach who breaks the skill into small drills, orders them so each one sets up the next, and builds in a quick check to show whether you’re improving. Each week ends with one short test of real progress, so you know when to move on and when to repeat.
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That’s all for Friday!
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Thanks for reading,
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