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AI is moving into your camera, your earbuds, your messaging apps, your marketing stack, and your identity after you die.
This week was about AI becoming the environment you operate in. Google replaced your product photographer. Apple is building AI into glasses and pendants. The NYT declared chatbots the new influencers brands have to win over. And Meta patented a system to keep you posting after you're dead.
Here's the signal that matters 👇🏼
🗞️ TECH & TRENDS | AI Leaves the Screen
📸 Google Just Replaced Your Product Photographer Google Labs launched Photoshoot inside Pomelli, a free tool that turns a basic product photo into studio-quality marketing assets using AI. Upload a phone snap, pick a template, get professional lifestyle shots styled to your brand in seconds. If you're a business still paying for product photography, that line item just went to zero. (📎 Link)
🎧 Spotify's Best Engineers Haven't Written Code Since December Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström confirmed that the company's top developers ship features from Slack on their phones using an internal AI system called Honk, built on Claude Code. 50+ features shipped in 2025 with this workflow. The developer role got promoted to architect and orchestrator. (📎 Link)
👁️ Researchers Built an AI That Predicts Whether You'll Look at an Ad AdGazer, trained on eye-tracking data from 3,531 display ads, predicts human gaze patterns with 83% accuracy before an ad is ever placed. The page context around the ad accounts for a third of attention outcomes. Creative alone isn't doing the heavy lifting anymore. Placement intelligence just became measurable. (📎 Link)
📉 What If AI Disruption Hits Faster Than We Can Respond? Citrini Research published a speculative but rigorous scenario written from June 2028: SaaS collapse, private credit defaults, wage compression, a consumer economy fizzling out while GDP keeps climbing. It's fiction. But the feedback loops it describes are already visible. Worth 15 minutes of your day. (📎 Link)
🎬 The First Major AI Documentary Drops Next Month "The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist" hits theaters March 27 from Focus Features. Heavy hitters, Oscar-winning Daniel Roher co-directed the doc, and Daniel Kwan produced it. If you've been looking for a way to get your team thinking about what's coming, buy them tickets. (📎 Link)
💬 Manus Put a Full AI Agent in Telegram. Manus (now part of Meta) embedded its full multi-step AI agent inside Telegram. Not a chatbot. The same reasoning engine, tools, and task execution you'd get on a desktop. Send a voice note, get a research report. Share a product photo, get a launch brief. The agent doesn't live behind a login screen anymore. It lives wherever you already are. (📎 Link)
🤖 Chatbots Are the New Influencers Brands Must Win Over The NYT reports companies can no longer just market to humans. They have to market to AI models too. Athenahealth published 250,000 words of targeted content to "educate" chatbots about its products. A new discipline called AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is replacing SEO for brand discovery. If chatbots don't know about you, a growing share of your customers won't either. (📎 Link)
🔊 OpenAI Is Building a Smart Speaker with a Camera. The Alexa Killer Is Coming. The Information reports OpenAI has 200+ people building AI devices, led by the Jony Ive partnership. First product: a $200-$300 smart speaker with a camera that can observe your surroundings, identify items, and enable purchases via facial recognition. Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta are all racing toward the same space. (📎 Link)
👓 Apple Is Building Three AI Wearables. The iPhone Becomes the Brain. Bloomberg reports Apple is accelerating work on AI smart glasses, a camera-equipped pendant, and AI-enhanced AirPods. All three are built around a smarter Siri powered by Google's Gemini. The pendant acts as the "eyes and ears" of your iPhone. Apple isn't building standalone devices. It's building a sensory network around the phone you already carry. (📎 Link)
👻 Meta Patented a System to Simulate Dead Users. Researchers Call It "Spectral Labor." A Meta patent describes AI that would simulate a deceased user's social media activity, letting friends "chat" with the dead via LLMs. Researchers analyzed 50+ real-world cases of AI resurrection and warn there's no legal framework for digital consent after death. The question of who owns your data after you're gone just became urgent. (📎 Link)
🪦 We Built a Tool That Resurrects Your Domain Graveyard You know that domain you bought at 2 am three years ago? DustyDomain turns it into a live product. Paste the domain, and it generates a business idea, runs deep research, writes a PRD, and plugs directly into Lovable to build and ship the app. No excuses left. (📎 Link)
The companies winning right now aren't picking better tools. They're redesigning how their teams, customers, and products interact with AI that's already everywhere. The window between "early" and "late" is closing fast.
Signal over noise. Always.
Ralph & Gianni
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