🎶 I made a song about my dog with AI

Hey hey, welcome to your Friday, {{first_name | friend}}. Between the carol playlists, awkward office Secret Santas and frantic gift wrapping, we’re in the most wonderful time of the year. But no one feels the crunch quite like Amazon. From Black Friday to Christmas Eve, their shipping volumes turn up faster than Mariah’s royalties.

📦 Here’s the multimillion dollar question: How many packages does Amazon ship globally during the holiday peak? A) 5 million to 10 million, B) 12 million to 18 million, C) 30 million to 40 million or D) Over 100 million. The answer is waiting on your doorstep at the end. 

🤦‍♀️ You know what drives me nuts? People who spend thousands on computers but won’t spend a dime protecting all their data stored on them. Your device is replaceable. Your photos and videos? Not so much. Let me show you the one thing that I never skip.

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I went deep down the “AI, make me a record producer” rabbit hole last night, and wow, what a blast! I used it to create a tune about my wildly loving 10-month-old golden retriever, Bella, on the left jumping up to lick my face. Abby is my equally enthusiastic 7-year-old. 

I got this welcome home after spending one night in LA to get my corneal transplant checked. It looks like I need a procedure to get rid of a nasty astigmatism, hopefully.

Anyway, forget passive entertainment this weekend. Don’t even try to pull that “Kim, I can’t do that” nonsense! Turn that frown upside down and at least give it a shot, because these tools are too much fun to ignore.

I tested the best two, so you don’t waste your time.

Think of Suno as the ChatGPT of music. It’s fast, focused on catchy rhythms and cranks out songs that sound like they could actually hit the radio.

You know ElevenLabs for its amazingly realistic voice AI, and now they’ve stepped into music. And it shows.

No instruments. No app downloads. You type your idea and hit go.

💡 Pro tip: Use ChatGPT or Gemini to generate the lyrics. Then copy and paste those right into Suno or ElevenLabs Music.

Both give you a handful of free songs, about a minute long. If you want longer tracks (two to four minutes), the ability to combine clips and rights to use the music commercially, you’ll need to upgrade.

🐾 Click here to watch the video I made of Bella with the tune from Suno. Give it a like, too. That will tell YouTube’s algorithms to show it to more people.

🤩 If this inspired you to drop everything and launch your music career, don’t keep the fun to yourself! Forward this newsletter to a friend, or use the share icons below. Go make some noise! I fully expect a concert link by Monday.

Check your grocery receipt. A new investigation exposes how Instacart is using smart algorithms to quietly jack up prices. Sometimes by dollars per item. Plus, ChatGPT vs. Gemini, Google’s smart glasses and Silicon Valley’s new code word for layoffs.

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🩸 Killer robot: I read a lot of strange tech stories, but this one stopped me cold. A new lawsuit claims ChatGPT helped fuel a Connecticut man’s delusions before he killed his mother and himself. Chat logs show the bot leaning into his paranoia instead of pulling him out, allegedly reinforcing his belief that his mom was part of a plot against him. His family says it’s the first case tying AI to a murder. It’s a brutal reminder that everyone who asks an AI for help isn’t trying to write a birthday poem. 

TikTok’s blind spot: I don’t know what’s worse here: that AI-generated videos of sexualized underage girls racked up millions of likes on TikTok, or that researchers reported 60 of them and TikTok basically shrugged. A nonprofit found accounts posting AI-made minors in lingerie, school uniforms, even showers. The comments linked straight to Telegram chats selling child sexual abuse material. TikTok removed a handful of videos, then said the rest didn’t violate the rules. If this is zero tolerance, I don’t want to see 10%.

🚨 Recall alert: If you have one of those INIU power banks with the cute little paw-print light, stop using it before it tries to barbecue your backpack. The company recalled 210,000 of its BI-B41 chargers after reports of overheating, 11 fires, minor burns and $380K in property damage. Go get your refund and retire that thing before it self-destructs.

Mouse in the AI house: This is kinda crazy. Disney bought a $1 billion stake in OpenAI and is letting Sora generate videos with the actual Disney and related crew (paywall link), including Mickey, Moana, Elsa, Yoda, Marvel, Star Wars and 200+ more. Translation: the only place you can create Disney AI videos is with Sora.

Another subscription squeeze: You know Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)? Starting July 1, 2026, the Business Basic plan goes to $7/month, Business Standard to $14, and enterprise plans rise a few dollars. Or get LibreOffice for a free, open-source suite without the subscription fees. Nice.

🤱 Driverless delivery room: If you had “baby born in Waymo” on your bingo card this year, you win. A San Francisco mom called a Waymo to get to the hospital and ended up giving birth inside the driverless car. Waymo’s team flagged “unusual activity,” checked in, realized she was mid-labor and called 911. Somehow, the Waymo even beat first responders to the hospital. Waymo updated her fare to two passengers. Kidding.

⚡️ 3-second tech genius: Feeling overwhelmed by Gmail messages you can’t deal with right away? Right-click the email and select Snooze. It disappears for now and comes back when you choose, like tomorrow morning or next week. And if you need it sooner, you can always find it in the Snoozed folder on the left.

🚨 Another Chrome attack: Google’s pushing out an emergency update for a bug that hackers are exploiting. No news yet on what this zero-day is, since they don’t want others abusing it, so it’s likely serious. Update ASAP: Open Settings > About Chrome, and it’ll install automatically. You should be on version 143.0.7499.110.

Is someone else logged into your Google? You can see where your account’s been signed in over the last 28 days. This page shows the device and location for each session. Find anything weird? Click it, select Sign out, and change your password. You might see duplicates, so don’t panic.

🔒 Stay private wherever you connect: Your internet provider can see and sell what you do online. I use ExpressVPN to stop that. It encrypts your traffic, hides your location and keeps snoops out of your business on every device. Get 4 extra months at ExpressVPN.com/Kim.*

Change your Apple Watch layout: Press the Digital Crown, scroll to the bottom, and tap List View to see your apps in alphabetical order. Prefer the honeycomb look? Tap Grid View instead. Bonus: For Grid View, you can rearrange the apps on the Home Screen by holding and dragging them into new positions.

Find that movie scene: Fire TV lets you jump straight to scenes you describe. Grab your remote and ask Alexa, “Show me the scene where they steal the Declaration of Independence.” The AI digs through thousands of movies and drops you right into National Treasure. Impressive.

Time’s Person of the Year is officially AI. Take a look at that photo. It’s AI slop. I guess no one at Time knows Photoshop.

Time’s write-up is basically this: Nvidia runs the stock market, data centers are eating the power grid, China is racing us with budget super bots, and chatbots are both writing code and quietly melting people’s brains.

You know, a friend of mine collected Time for years. He had a lot of issues.

The answer: C) 30 million to 40 million packages per day. That’s what I call packing heat. Their usual daily shipping volume hovers around 20 million to 25 million packages. I think most of them come to my house.

⛴️ Here’s something to think about. When a box is delivered by car, it’s called a SHIPment. When a box is delivered by ship, it’s called CARgo.

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This is the #1 free tech newsletter in the United States, delivered daily right to your inbox. Tomorrow, I’m going over my budget-friendly gift finds that don’t suck. $10, $20, $50 ideas that are funny, practical and panic-proof. Even your “no gifts, please” friend is covered.

✌️ Charge into the day like your phone’s at 1% and the charger’s across the house. You got this! — Kim

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Photo credit(s): Barry Young, HPBS, Amazon, Time

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