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Today we have:

🤖 The internet is starting to sound like AI

📆How to manage your family calendar by texting it with Domo

🚀 Nvidia prices rise as SpaceX takes its AI chips to orbit

🔨Tools and shifts you cannot miss

🤖 The internet is starting to sound like AI

AI-generated writing is no longer a small corner of the web. New research suggests it is becoming a meaningful share of what people read online, and platforms like LinkedIn are already trying to push back.

The Shift:

One-third of newer webpages show AI signs: More than one-third of pages published after ChatGPT launched showed significant signs of AI authorship or editing. Across the entire July 2026 web sample, including older pages, the figure was 10%.

Commercial websites have far more AI writing: Around 10% of .com pages showed signs of AI authorship, compared with 4.6% of .org pages and roughly 1% of .edu and .gov pages.

The way the web writes is changing too: Since 2023, em dashes have roughly doubled, Oxford commas increased 63%, common AI-favored words more than doubled, and negative parallelism nearly tripled.

LinkedIn is already pushing back: More than one million users have clicked its “Seems like AI slop” button, and LinkedIn says views of content it classifies as AI slop have fallen 40% in just a few weeks.

AI has made publishing almost frictionless, but that makes sounding human more valuable. The problem is no longer whether people use AI to write. It is whether readers can immediately feel that nobody cared enough to make the writing their own.

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📆How to manage your family calendar by texting it with Domo

Domo is a calendar agent with its own phone number. Text it "add dentist Thursday at 3" and it's done. No app to open, no login, no new inbox. Launched August 4, 2026 on Product Hunt.

Step 1: Install Domo - Install it by handing the guide to a coding agent. Domo runs on your existing Claude subscription, no API key, no extra billing.

Step 2: Text it your first event - Send a message to Domo's phone number over iMessage or SMS. Plain language works exactly as you'd expect. "Add soccer practice Saturday at 10am." "Move Tuesday's dentist to Friday." It confirms and updates immediately.

Step 3: Ask it what's coming up - Text "what's on this week?" or "when's the recital?" Domo reads the calendar and replies in plain language, no opening an app, no scrolling through a grid.

Step 4: Put the dashboard on your wall - Domo includes an always-on wall dashboard that stays current. Display it on any screen in your home, it updates in real time as texts come in from anyone in the household.

Step 5: Add everyone to the number - Share Domo's number with your partner, kids, or housemates. Anyone can text updates and Domo keeps one shared calendar current for the whole household.

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🚀 Nvidia prices rise as spacex takes its AI chips to orbit

Two developments around Nvidia’s next generation of AI hardware point in the same direction: demand for compute keeps growing, while getting that compute is becoming more expensive. Nvidia is reportedly preparing price increases just as SpaceX commits to using its newest systems for orbital data centers.

The Shift:

Nvidia could raise server prices 15%+ - Servers shipping in 2027, including Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems, are reportedly getting more expensive as the memory shortage continues to squeeze the industry.

The shortage is hitting tech broadly - Nvidia joins Amazon, Apple and other major companies that have raised prices this year as memory supply constraints push hardware costs higher.

SpaceX is putting Vera Rubin in orbit - Its planned Starmind space-based data centers will use Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72, with 72 chips operating together as one large computing system.

The hardware is being redesigned for space - Musk says the orbital version will be lighter, denser, cheaper and simpler than conventional racks, with modifications for radiation and thermal conditions in orbit.

Nvidia is getting expensive enough that even its biggest customers are feeling the supply crunch, yet SpaceX wants to launch entire racks of it into orbit. The AI compute race is moving beyond who can buy the most chips to who can secure power, memory and infrastructure wherever capacity can be built.

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🚀Quick Shifts

⚠️ AI may have selected its first deadly civilian target. A Russian drone using an Nvidia chip reportedly selected its own target in Ukraine before an attack that killed three civilians, marking a major escalation in autonomous warfare. 

🎬 Alibaba’s Wan3.0 can turn almost anything into video. The new model generates up to 30-second clips from text, images, audio, video, webpages and documents like PDFs and slide decks. 

🤗 Hugging Face could be acquired for $13b. The AI model-sharing platform has reportedly received acquisition approaches valuing it at $13 billion or more and is talking with banks to evaluate potential bids. 

🇺🇸 Nvidia is spending $6b to build a u.s. rival to Chinese AI. Nvidia is licensing Poolside’s technology and hiring 100+ engineers to strengthen its open-weight Nemotron models, targeting rivals like DeepSeek and Kimi while challenging OpenAI and Anthropic. 

📉 Star AI hedge fund faces sec probe. Situational Awareness, founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, is reportedly under SEC scrutiny after an AI-stock downturn erased billions from the fund’s value. 

🤳Prompt of the day

Create an Impossible Photograph That Feels Real

Image Prompt: Create an ultra-realistic photograph of [INSERT SUBJECT] performing [INSERT IMPOSSIBLE ACTION] in [INSERT ENVIRONMENT], treating the physically impossible event as if it were genuinely captured by a camera.

Context

• Subject: [Insert subject]

• Impossible action: [Insert action]

• Environment: [Insert location]

• Mood: Quiet, surreal, awe-inspiring

• Composition: Extreme wide cinematic photography

Place [INSERT SUBJECT] extremely far from the camera, occupying roughly 1% of the entire frame and positioned near the horizon using the rule of thirds. Capture the scene from an extremely low, almost ground-level perspective with a vast environment dominating the composition. Keep everything except the subject calm, still, and minimal to create contrast with the intensity of [INSERT IMPOSSIBLE ACTION]. Despite the impossible event, make every physical interaction completely believable, including accurate splashes, reflections, shadows, ripples, atmospheric perspective, motion, and environmental reactions. Use a distant panoramic horizon, enormous negative space, realistic natural lighting, subtle atmospheric haze, and cinematic photographic detail.

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