🍭 Midjourney Fixed Faces. Gemini Beat Pokémon. 🎮

Good morning. AI just beat Pokémon, fixed your brand consistency, and started running classrooms. Humanity might be the side quest now.

Oh btw, Eder dropped something for you in yesterdays newsletter

What’s Cookin’:

•  Midjourney finally gives characters a consistent face

• Gemini just speedran your childhood.

• A Texas school runs on AI and it’s working

• 5 AI tools to build, brand, and ship faster

  
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Midjourney
👨‍🎨 Omni-Reference just changed the game

The Bite: Midjourney V7 drops Omni-Reference, a new feature that keeps your character, product, or weird frog wizard consistent across generations.

Snacks: 

• Lets you embed specific visuals from one reference image

• Works with characters, objects, logos, and non-human madness

• Just adding “--ow” (Omni-weight) adjusts how closely MJ sticks to the reference. Midjourney, not that MJ 🏀

• One image per prompt for now, and it costs 2x more in compute power

Why it bites: Imagine if every AI image of your character actually looked like your character.

No more identity crises.
Huge win for comic artists, content creators, and anyone with a visual brand.

Google
🕹️ Gemini beat Pokémon Blue (yes, really)

The Bite: Gemini 2.5 Pro just cleared Pokémon Blue via livestream.

Ash Ketchum, AI is taking your job too.

Snacks:

• Gemini played (and beat) Pokémon Blue on a custom rig from AI dev Joel Z

• It saw the screen, made decisions, battled rivals. No “human in the loop”

• But it needed some help. Joel’s essentially running an AI agent with Gemini. You think we’re done talking about agents this year??

• Claude’s still stuck in Viridian Forest, apparently… Actually, Claude’s in board meetings after their toolbox upgrade last week.

Why it bites: This wasn’t about productivity. It was about possibility.

A flagship AI model beat a classic video game using screenshots and logic instead of thumbs.

It didn’t have to. It just could.

Which is the real story: AI’s not just working. It’s playing.

Is it practical?

No. Is it hilarious?

Yes. Is your startup CTO doing this instead of QA testing?

Also yes

🍭 Steal this prompt
Turn your face into a deranged Garfield sticker pack

You ever look at a selfie and think, “This needs more melting?”

No?

Well, now you will.

This prompt turns any face into a psychedelic comic strip gone wrong — think vintage Garfield meets a Salvador Dalí fever dream.

🧙‍♂️ Here’s the magic formula:

1. Hit this link (for the prompt)

2. Copy + paste the prompt into ChatGPT 4o

3. Upload your portrait, headshot, or your co-workers

4. Boom. Now you’re Garfield Dali’s trippy side character.

💥 Why it slaps:

• Smug, distorted clones of your face (or anyone’s) packed like psychedelic sardines

• Hilariously haunting. Strangely printable. Definitely scroll-stopping

• Makes your yearbook photo look like a bootleg acid trip

  
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Tool Box
🧰 Trending AI Tools

🌐 Golex AI: Describe your dream site. It builds it.

Like Webflow ate a magic wand.

🎬 Video Background Remover: Remove video backgrounds.

Content creator/editor unlock (been waiting for this. also cool name)

🌄 F-Lite by Freepik: An open-source image model that won’t get you sued.

👀 Keyword Search AI: Auto-builds ad audiences for YouTube & Google. Point, click, publish.

✍️ Rayo: Writes, audits, and publishes your blog posts. Basically your AI SEO intern.

Test Your Skill
Snack Quiz: Choose The Real Image 🔍

Alpha School
🤖 When School Takes 2 Hours and AI Does the Teaching

The Bite: Alpha School in Brownsville, TX is doing what most educators fear: replacing the traditional school day with a 2-hour AI sprint. And apparently… the kids are thriving.

Snacks:

• Core academics (math, science, English, etc.) = done in 2 hours with personalized AI tutors

• Afternoons? Spent learning life skills like public speaking, biking, and budgeting. They won’t be completely unprepared for IRL like most of us after high school.

• Students are scoring in the top 2% nationwide on tests

Why it bites: Schools are still banning phones while Alpha is building the education version of Tesla Autopilot.

What started as a mom’s side project (shoutout to cofounder MacKenzie Price) is now expanding to 8 other US cities.

The goal?

Make learning actually fun. Make school actually work. — Ok, they didn’t say this part, but it certainly didn’t work for me.

Critics say AI can’t replace trust, mentorship, or human connection. Valid.

Also… ever had to memorize the Pythagorean theorem while the kid next to you farts on command?

We’ll take the AI tutor.

Everything Else
You need to know 📈 

👨‍🚀 Elon’s Starbase is becoming a city

SpaceX’s launch site in Texas is officially leveling up to a full-blown city.

No mayor yet, but we’re betting on a humanoid robot.

💬 AI chatbots = engagement crack?

Instagram’s cofounder says bots aren’t helping users — they’re just farming “juicing engagement”.

Translation: UX is out, dopamine hits are in.

📸 Trump & Hegseth AI images get ratioed

Both posted AI-generated images of themselves on X.

The internet responded with "stop it."

The uncanny valley strikes again.

🧠 Brain-inspired AI just dropped

Researchers at Novel AI unveiled a new model based on actual neural dynamics.

Objective? More human-like learning with lower computational cost.

Welcome to neurosymbolic summer.

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