Deep Doubt, Amazon RTO, Darkest Timeline, AI Nuclear Power, and Titan Sub

Weekly Review of News in Technology, UX and AI

Here’s the latest news, resources, and use cases from the world of product, UX, AI and technology. Let’s go:

• 💊 Personalized Health

• 🤔 Deep Doubt

• 💼 Amazon RTO

• 🌑 Darkest Timeline

• ☣️ AI Nuclear Power

• 🤩 Teen AI

• 🌊 Titan Sub

Podcast

Personalized Nutrition: How AI, Data, and 3D Printing Are Transforming Health with Ari Tulla of Elo

In this episode of Prodity: Product by Design, Kyle sits down with Ari Tulla, co-founder and CEO of Elo, a smart nutrition service using AI and data to personalize health solutions. Ari shares his fascinating journey from his early passion for gaming and technology to becoming a leading figure in the healthcare space. He discusses how Elo is turning the concept of "food as medicine" into reality, using biometric data, wearable devices, and AI to create personalized nutrition solutions. Ari also delves into the challenges and innovations that come with building a product in a space where technology, health, and human experience intersect, emphasizing the importance of balance in life and business. Join us to learn more about the future of health and how personalized nutrition is set to revolutionize wellness.

News and Useful Reads

Welcome to the Era of ‘Deep Doubt’

Now that we’re in the era of deep doubt, good media literacy is more important than ever.

Given the flood of photorealistic AI-generated images washing over social media networks like X and Facebook these days, we're seemingly entering a new age of media skepticism: the era of what I'm calling “deep doubt.” While questioning the authenticity of digital content stretches back decades—and analog media long before that—easy access to tools that generate convincing fake content has led to a new wave of liars using AI-generated scenes to deny real documentary evidence.

Amazon orders workers to return to the office 5 days a week

We knew it was coming, and now it is here. Amazon is requiring its employees to be back in the office 5 days a week. Because how else can leaders lord over their underlings?

Amazon wants to set its corporate clock back to before the pandemic. After four years of employees with the online retailer working from home, CEO Andrew Jassy said on Monday he wants all workers back in the office five days a week.

We Are Living in the Darkest Twitter Timeline

When it comes to Elon Musk, assuming the darkest timeline seems like a safe bet. But it is sad to see how far Twitter has fallen since he purchased it.

The darkest-darkest timeline is the one where the world’s richest man runs a communications platform in a truly vengeful, dictatorial way, which involves Musk outright using Twitter as a political tool to promote extreme right-wing agendas and to punish what he calls brain-poisoned liberals.

AI Will Now Be Nuclear Powered

We all know that AI required a tremendous amount of energy. And we don’t really have a better source of energy than nuclear power. So it stands to reason that we may see a lot more of this type of deal soon.

Constellation Energy, a Baltimore-based energy company, announced on Friday that it had signed an agreement with Microsoft to restart one of the nuclear power reactors at Three Mile Island and launch the Crane Clean Energy Center.

Teenagers are using AI to learn math and science from celebrities

It’s interesting to see how teenagers are using GenAI. I imagine “help with homework” is a pretty broad category, but there is no getting away from the fact that the tools exist now, so they will get used.

Other Interesting Finds

The Titan Submersible Disaster Hearings Paint a Damning Picture

We’re getting a lot of information about the Titan sub—and most of it is bad.

Four days, 10 witnesses, and dozens of exhibits in the US Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation hearing on the Titan submersible implosion have made public a flood of information about the doomed vessel’s design and operation. But one thing the hearings have not yet explained is why the submersible suddenly failed on a sightseeing trip to the Titanic in June 2023, nor who might shoulder the blame for the deaths of its five crew.