Sunday, September 13, 2026
Startups
I asked AI to show me a picture of my future kids, and learned a harsh lesson in how technology shows us what we want to see, not what’s real
A baby-prediction app takes two adult photographs, runs them through a generative model trained on faces, and returns what is,...
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The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 6/22/26 – AlleyWatch
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of...
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McKinsey’s 2025 global AI survey: 88% of organizations now use AI in at least one function, up from 78% — but most are still stuck in pilot mode, and only a minority can point to any real impact on profit
Two numbers from McKinsey’s 2025 survey sit awkwardly next to each other. The first is 88 percent, the share of...
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The oldest known written customer complaint is a 3,750-year-old clay tablet from ancient Ur, where a furious customer named Nanni accused the merchant Ea-nasir of delivering sub-standard copper — proof that bad reviews are almost as old as writing itself
In the British Museum’s Mesopotamian collection sits a palm-sized rectangle of baked clay, catalogued as UET V 81. It is...
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I asked ChatGPT why reaching every goal still leaves me flat. The answer wasn’t the one I was expecting.
I typed it out plainly: “Based on everything you know about me, why does reaching my goals still leave me...
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I let my phone die for one entire weekend without telling anyone — and the strange thing wasn’t who didn’t notice, it was realizing how many of my closest relationships had been running on something closer to maintenance than to actual presence
I let my phone die one Friday evening and, on a whim, decided not to charge it again until Monday....
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As AI eats into paid creative work, people are taking up the same skills — drawing, writing, crafts — on their own time, for no money, just to feel human
I’m not a psychologist, an economist, or a labor researcher. This is one writer noticing a pattern and reading around...
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In 1844, Samuel Morse tapped out ‘What hath God wrought’ from the US Capitol to a Baltimore railroad depot, and the four-word message took 38 miles of copper wire and a verse his friend’s daughter had chosen from the Book of Numbers
Samuel Morse was inside the US Capitol on May 24, 1844, with a telegraph key in front of him and...
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We treat the eight-hour day as an acceptable day’s work, but many celebrated figures did their best thinking in just four or five hours a day — and that deliberate rest may have been key
Sit down to do real work, the kind that asks something of your brain, and notice how long you can...
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Using more than 35 years of US survey data, some researchers found Americans were happier in years of lower income inequality — and the link seemed to run not through money, but through how fair and trustworthy others felt
In 2011, three researchers published a paper in Psychological Science that did something unusual with one of the longest-running datasets...
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