🍭 Finance AI, China BCI, DeepMind Dates Augustus 🏛️

Good morning. Our intern tried to "hack time" with ChatGPT and ended up missing three meetings.

Now he thinks he’s in a Christopher Nolan film.

We’re just trying to finish this newsletter before he loops again.

Let’s dig in.

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Model ML: Family Office → Finance AI Frontier

• China’s Building Brain-AI Stargates 

• DeepMind’s AI Dates Augustus

• 🍭 Steal This Prompt:

• Everything Else you need to fake productivity at brunch

Model ML
🏛️ From Family Office to Finance AI Frontier

The Bite: Model ML started as a six-person family office productivity hack and is now the AI backbone for some finance firms.

CEO Chaz Englander says agents now do the work of teams.

Pulling data, making slides, and future-proofing operations while the humans sip cold brew and stress about job titles.


Snacks: 

• Prototype started as a family office side project

• GPT-powered agents gave a 60x leverage boost

• Workflows: Quarterly reports done before you wake up

• Thousands of use cases for finance pros, out of the box

• OpenAI Agent SDK now replaces custom Model ML code

• Flat teams: 10+ direct reports, all with AI assist

Why it bites: Investment banking once meant 80-hour weeks sniffing Excel fumes.

Model ML hands that misery to silicon interns who don’t need coffee breaks so the real humans can finally think or maybe just sleep a full 8 hrs.

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2. Paste into Midjourney

3. Let it cook.

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International AI
🧠 China's Brain-Computer Playbook

The Bite: Forget ChatGPT clones, China’s betting on brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to leapfrog AGI.

A former CIA officer uncovered CCP docs showing plans for invasive and non-invasive BCIs, aimed at augmenting cognition and creating “human-machine teams.”


Snacks: 

• Invasive, non-invasive, and “minimally-invasive” BCIs

• AGI via brain hacking, not just model scaling

• Docs reveal multi-year, multi-billion-dollar BCI funding

• State media: “The future is AI as a physical part of you”

• U.S.: Still “promote and protect” but not recruiting cyborgs (yet)

Why it bites: Still getting “space race” vibes?

America: "Let's make GPT do your emails."
China: "Let’s plug the AI into your skull and birth a new species."

If AGI is the moon race, BCI is China building the rocket inside your head.

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AI for History
👨‍💻 When LLMs Do Latin Homework

The Bite: DeepMind trained a new model called Aeneas to identify the social context of ancient texts.

And just dropped it into the Roman Empire like a temporal detective.

Its first party trick:
→ Dating “Res Gestae Divi Augusti,” a stone-carved PR blast from Emperor Augustus, to around A.D. 15.

That’s after Augustus died. And yes, it matters.

Snacks: 

• Trained on 500K+ inscriptions from 3 epigraphy databases

• Aeneas links linguistic patterns to historical context

• Historians previously disagreed by decades on the text’s origin

• Surveyed epigraphers say Aeneas boosts accuracy and confidence

• Interactive version now live at predictingthepast.com

Why it bites: Aeneas changes the rules of scholarship.

This is AI as a historian’s co-pilot, connecting dots no human could scan alone.

In a world obsessed with AI’s future, Aeneas reminds us it can illuminate the past, too.

Not everything has to be prompt soup and video ads.

Sometimes… it’s Latin and legacy.

Everything Else
🧠 You Need to Know

🪤 AI Slop Is Flooding Bug Bounties
→ Fake vulnerabilities written by LLMs are overwhelming security teams

📼 Samsung Backs AI That Watches 10M Hours of Video
→ Memories.ai raised $8M to build video context memory at scale

🧍‍♂️ Teens Are Befriending AI Companions
→ 70% use chatbots like friends. Some prefer bots to real people

🧨 There Is No Kill Switch for AI
→ Experts say "persuasion" will be AI’s ultimate power move

🏛️ AI Dates a Roman Inscription to A.D. 15
→ DeepMind’s Aeneas helps solve a 2,000-year-old historical mystery

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