🍭 MedBed, Misinformation, Mayhem 🤯

Good morning. The office plant just pitched an AI startup. We’re considering pre-seed water.

Let’s dig in.

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Will AI replace actors?

• Trump drops AI vid of a Qanon conspiracy

• 5 Tools To Try

• And Everything Else

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Presidential AI
🤦‍♂️ Trump’s AI “MedBed” Moment

The Bite: This weekend Trump posted, then deleted, an AI-generated “Fox News” clip hyping magical “MedBed hospitals” and a national “MedBed card.”

The video was never on Fox (obviously) and featured AI Lara Trump plus an AI Oval Office cameo.

The MedBed itself?
A QAnon-adjacent sci-fi cure-all, for the rich, that doesn’t exist.

Still, the post stayed up long enough to bounce around Truth Social and X before disappearing.

Snacks:

• Fake Fox: Fox confirmed the segment never aired.

• AI Cameo: Oval Office Trump promised everyone a “MedBed card.”

• Conspiracy Core: MedBeds claim to cure everything. Fake btw

• Post & Ghost: Deleted on Truth Social, but reposted everywhere.

• Cheeky Take: Fan service for the base, but giving “please clap” with cryo pods.

Why it bites: When world leaders casually post photoreal AI without a disclaimer, it’s not just messy—it’s corrosive.

Meta just launched Vibes, a feed that’s 100% AI video, which makes this even trickier:
the internet is already drowning in synthetic slop.

Creativity? Fun.
But politics?

If you post AI, label it.

And if you’re the leader of the free world?
Label it twice and staple the label to your forehead.

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🧠 You Need to Know

🎧 YouTube Music Tests AI Hosts

YouTube Music is piloting synthetic “radio host” voices that add stories, trivia, and commentary around tracks and artists.

The test appears for a limited set of users and is meant to bring DJ-style context to playlists and listening sessions.

📱 How To Record a Phone Call on iPhone

Engadget published a practical guide covering methods like speakerphone with Voice Memos, Google Voice, and reputable third-party apps.

It also flags legal consent requirements and notes Apple’s built-in limitations depending on your region and iOS version.

📊 Ex-Microsoft Execs Launch Finance AI Agents

A new startup from former Microsoft leaders is building agents to automate FP&A tasks and kill off spreadsheet-heavy workflows.

The platform connects to business systems, generates forecasts and reports, and targets mid-market enterprises first.

🤖 ‘Paid’ Raises $21M For Results-Based AI Agents
Paid closed a large seed round to build agents that bill on outcomes rather than time or seats.

The company says the model aligns incentives for customers and will focus on measurable, high-leverage tasks.

🎛️ Google Debuts Mixboard in Labs

Google introduced Mixboard, a creative tool that lets you combine and transform media with generative AI.

Early access focuses on fast remixing and simple controls to prototype ideas without pro-level software.

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🧰 5 Tools Worth Testing:

🎬 Kling AI 2.5 Turbo Video Model
→ Text-to-video with tighter prompt adherence, smoother motion control, and a 30% price drop for crisp 1080p clips.

🗂️ Strata by Klavis AI
→ One MCP server that routes your agents across thousands of tools with progressive discovery and real OAuth—goodbye brittle plugin chaos.

🧠 flowith
→ An AI creation workspace (multithread canvas + “Agent Neo”) for going from idea to shipped sites, games, and decks—backed by built-in knowledge.

📚 Learn Your Way by Google
→ Google Labs experiment that turns textbooks/PDFs into interactive, personalized lessons grounded in learning science.

🕹️ gambo.ai
→ “Game vibe coding” agent that generates games, assets, and ad hooks so you can monetize from session one.

Real Actors vs AI
🎬 AI “Actress” Tilly Norwood Meets Hollywood

The Bite: Meet Tilly Norwood, an AI “actress” cooked up by talent studio Xicoia (spun out of Particle6).

She just debuted at the Zurich Summit, where talent agents reportedly showed interest in signing her.

Cue the actor backlash:
not because the tech is bad, but because an AI avatar even sniffing around human acting gigs sets off every labor alarm in the book.

Creator Eline Van der Velden insists Tilly isn’t here to replace actors, just a creative experiment, but the industry isn’t buying it…

Snacks:

• Agent Buzz: Reports say reps poked around after her Zurich debut.

• Digital Property: Tilly isn’t a person—she’s IP owned by Xicoia.

• Pushback Fast: Actors lit up socials calling the idea a threat.

• Creator’s Spin: Van der Velden says “not a replacement.”

• Union Angle: SAG and Equity are already fighting AI replicas.

Why it Bites: For the record, we’re pro–AI avatars.
Clone yourself, run ads, launch weird brand campaigns.
Go nuts.

But putting an AI into drama roles meant for humans?
That’s where it starts to smell off.

Credit, consent, compensation: still unsolved.

Remember the Star Wars/Fortnite dust-up over using James Earl Jones’ voice without him?
Same energy.

The hustle’s real, and we’ll never knock anyone for chasing the bag.

But if avatars are competing for jobs, we need rules.

Until then: make avatars for fun or ads, not to erase the artists who put in the work.