🪬 This billionaire wants your eyeballs

Welcome to your Sunday, {{first_name | friend}}. What if we measured the actual weight of all the world’s digital data? Scientists gave it a shot and calculated how much mass the internet really has. Yes, including your emotional baggage from family group chats. We all have them.

So what does all that data weigh? A) A grain of sand, B) An apple, C) A blue whale or D) The moon. Take your best guess, and the answer will byte back at the end.

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Let’s talk about Sam Altman. You’ve probably heard his name, but do you really know who he is or what he’s planning? I put this together, so next time his name comes up, you’ve got something smart to add to the conversation.

He’s 40, born in Chicago, worth well over a billion dollars and cruises around in $27 million McLaren P1s. I’ve seen one of them parked in Montecito. Sam and his Aussie husband, Oliver Mulherin, welcomed their first child, a baby boy, in February 2025.

He dropped out of Stanford to launch Loopt, a location-sharing app that sold for $43.4 million in 2005. That win put him in the right rooms. He went on to fund early rounds for companies you’ve heard of: Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe. He got a piece of each for huge gains.

In 2015, he cofounded OpenAI with Elon Musk. Musk bailed in 2018 after clashing over the company’s direction. Altman took the helm as CEO in 2019 and became the face of AI. That nearly unraveled in 2023, when OpenAI’s board abruptly fired him. Five days, one employee revolt and a tech soap opera later, he was back and the board was out.

Altman has made it clear that AI will quickly surpass human intelligence.

In his words: “I think the median user will start to experience AGI-level capabilities in five years.” When he testified before Congress in 2023, he warned that “AI could cause significant harm to the world.”

This is superintelligence. Machines that don’t just match us, but outperform us in every way. Solving scientific mysteries. Curing diseases. Writing symphonies. No burnout, no sleep, no moral compass.

But intelligence isn’t wisdom. These systems don’t feel anything. No love, no fear, no empathy. And without that? They don’t know when to stop.

Here’s where it gets weird. Altman also runs World ID, a system that scans your eyeball and confirms you’re human.

So yes, he’s helping build the tech that could outpace humanity ... and also the system that verifies we’re still real. Feels a little like locking the door after you’ve already released the velociraptors.

Altman’s also a doomsday prepper. In interviews, he’s mentioned stockpiling supplies and buying land in remote locations, just in case things with AI go sideways. I am, too.

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Her ex quit his job and now spends his days talking to AI. Then I talk to Michaela, a bride-to-be using ChatGPT for a wedding glow-up. Plus, why your smart TV might already be obsolete, and TikTok pet psychics charge $100 a session.

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🪟 AI actions in File Explorer: Looks like new Windows 11 tools will let you edit images and docs without opening them. Right-click a JPEG and you can remove or blur backgrounds or run a Bing reverse search. Soon? One-click document summaries. If you’re a Windows Insider, try it now. I’ll let you know when it drops for the rest of us. 

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💬 World’s first telepathic wearable: MIT researchers built AlterEgo, a headpiece that lets you communicate without speaking. It uses bone conduction to pick up movements in your mouth, face and vocal cords. Software turns that into words. Imagine what it will do for speech disorders. Amazing.

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💻 Boost your laptop battery: On Windows 11, turn on Dynamic Refresh Rate to adjust your screen based on what you’re doing. Go to Settings > System > Display > Advanced Display > Choose a refresh rate > Dynamic refresh rate.

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🍎 The answer: B) An apple. The entire internet weighs about 50 grams or 1.8 ounces, like a medium apple. Physicist Russell Seitz did the math by estimating the mass of all the electrons storing our digital data. The data itself has no weight, but the electrons carrying it around aren’t featherlight. The cloud? Turns out it’s more like a fruit bowl.

Speaking of… Apple has a new revolutionary eye patch for pirates. It’s called the iEye patch. (Oh come on, that was a good one!)

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😊 Today, I hope you have a peaceful day. And I want you to smile every single time you check your phone. You know so many things most people don’t. — Kim

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