| Fleas can jump 100 times their own body length, which is deeply annoying for something that size. | They pull it off using a springy protein called resilin, which stores and releases energy like a tiny biological catapult. | A flea is basically all legs, audacity, and one very personal vendetta. | What’s in store: | Everyone suddenly wants the same chips. AI actor Tilly Norwood is heading to the big screen. Mindstream Picks: X is giving creators new video tools to fight recycled content. Build your AI clone!
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| | | SAMSUNG | | | Samsung Electronics expects profits to jump 19x, thanks to huge demand for AI memory chips. | The South Korean tech giant forecast operating profits of 89.4tn won, around £43.6bn, for April to June. | That would be its third record quarterly profit in a row. | Samsung also said sales more than doubled from the same period last year, reaching about 171tn won. | Analysts said this could be one of the company’s best quarters ever. | The main reason is the AI boom. Data centres and AI companies need large amounts of memory chips, but supply is still tight. | That has allowed Samsung to raise prices. | Research firm IDC said demand from AI infrastructure is putting pressure on the wider chip market, including chips used in everyday electronics. | In brief: | AI demand is pushing memory-chip prices up. Samsung and SK Hynix are major winners from the boom. Investors are still being very normal about record profits.
| Memory gets minted | Samsung supplies chips to major firms including Nvidia and Google, as well as using them in its own devices. | Its shares have more than doubled this year, while rival SK Hynix has risen by more than 200%. | Even so, Samsung’s shares fell almost 7% after the forecast, as some investors expected even bigger profits. | Apparently, 19 times higher is no longer enough to impress the spreadsheet people. | The chip race is also getting bigger. | South Korea recently announced plans for at least $880bn in chip investments led by Samsung and SK Hynix, while rivals in Japan, China and Taiwan are also building more factories. | Imagine making 19 times more money and still getting side-eyed by investors.- MG | Samsung’s profits jumped 19x. Your reaction? | | Vote for live results and see results + opinions from yesterday at the bottom of the email. |
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| | David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle and…? | Find the answer at the bottom of the email! |
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| | My family tree has been a quiet obsession since the mid‑1980s. Over time, I grew tired of paying annual fees to Ancestry.com and other services just to share our history with the people it belongs to: my family. When I discovered Anthropic’s Claude Chat Projects, I began building my own version of a family “tree” with the Cosmos as its backdrop. In this design, each person is the central star in their own cosmos, with satellite stars for partners, parents, and children. With a single click, any satellite becomes the main star in a new cosmos, and the story shifts to their point of view. To make all of this easy to explore, I moved the growing index into Claude Cowork, added photos and stories, and published it through Netlify onto my own website. The system looks sophisticated, but it is straightforward to use and inexpensive to maintain. When I add or revise a story, I update the index in Cowork, push it to Netlify, and the changes appear online almost instantly. Today, the project spans eight generations, with lives, photographs, and narratives woven into a single cosmic map of our family. With a little care from the descendants who come after me, this masterpiece can stay alive and accessible for generations to come. | | | | Michael, Arizona |
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| | | AI ENTERTAINMENT | | | AI-generated actor Tilly Norwood is set to star in Misaligned, a new film from Particle6, the UK studio that created her. | Particle6 says the film is set in a surreal digital world “somewhere up in the Cloud.” | Norwood plays an AI being with no real memories of her own, but access to other people’s childhoods and backstories. | The key points: | Tilly Norwood is an AI-generated actor created by UK studio Particle6. She will star in Misaligned, a film about AI, identity and performance. The project has renewed concerns about AI replacing human actors.
| Synthetic star power | The studio’s founder, Eline van der Velden, says the film is meant to show how AI can be used in filmmaking, while still relying on human writers, directors, editors and AI specialists. | But Norwood has already caused backlash in Hollywood. | SAG-AFTRA, the US actors’ union, says it does not see her as a real actor and has raised concerns about AI replacing human performers. | AI was also a major issue during the 2023 Hollywood strikes, as actors pushed for stricter rules around how studios can use the technology. | Did somebody say publicity stunt? - MV |
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| | Space: The world’s first commercially built nuclear-powered satellite has successfully reached orbit, testing a new long-lasting power source for future space missions.
Business: Britain's biggest banks have agreed to improve access to basic bank accounts after the financial regulator found vulnerable customers were being let down.
Music: Duran Duran thrilled fans at BST Hyde Park with a hit-filled set, joined by Nile Rodgers and backed by a star-studded lineup in a celebratory summer show. | Don’t Miss: X has launched new in-app video creation tools, including editing, captions, and green screen effects, as it pushes creators to post more original content. The update is part of a broader effort to reduce recycled videos and reward users who publish original posts. |
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