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Buried in Microsoft's Copilot terms of use (last updated October 2025) is this gem: "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don't rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk." |
This is the same Copilot Microsoft is charging companies good money for. A spokesperson told PCMag the language is "legacy" and will be updated soon. OpenAI and xAI have similar disclaimers, warning users not to treat outputs as "the truth." So to recap: the companies selling you AI are also the ones telling you not to trust it. Classic. |
Here’s what happened in AI today: |
😺 A guy built a $1.8B company with two employees and a bunch of AI tools. 📰 Anthropic is charging extra for Claude Code users on third-party tools like OpenClaw. 📰 Japan is deploying AI robots to fill jobs its shrinking workforce can't. 🍪 China is using AI to monitor kids' facial expressions in classrooms.
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… and a whole lot more that you can read about here. |
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😺 This Guy Built a $1.8 Billion Company With One Employee (His Brother) |
In September 2024, Matthew Gallagher launched a telehealth startup from his house in LA with $20,000, a dozen AI tools, and zero employees. Eighteen months later, Medvi is on track to do $1.8 billion in sales this year. |
His only hire? His younger brother. |
Gallagher used AI to write the code, produce website copy, generate ad images and videos, handle customer service, and analyze business performance. He stitched together ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Midjourney, Runway, and ElevenLabs to run what most companies would need an army of people to operate. |
Here's how it actually worked: |
He used CareValidate and OpenLoop Health (two “telehealth-in-a-box” platforms) to handle the doctors, pharmacies, prescriptions, and shipping. That freed him up to focus entirely on the front end: branding, marketing, and the customer experience. He built AI agents to get his software systems to communicate automatically. He tested AI voice tools for customer calls. He even made an AI clone of his own voice to handle personal scheduling so he could stay focused on the business.
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The initial website had AI-generated model photos and before-and-after images with AI-swapped faces. Some of the ads were, by his own admission, "AI slop." He later cleaned it up as revenue grew, swapping in real customer photos, upgrading to a law firm from LegalZoom, and replacing AI accounting tools with an actual accounting firm. |
The business model itself wasn't revolutionary because Medvi is simply a middleman for GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, plugging into existing telehealth platforms for doctors, pharmacies, and shipping. What was new was how lean he ran it. |
By the numbers: |
$20,000 to launch the whole thing 300 customers in month one, 1,000 more in month two $401M in revenue in 2025, its first full year 16.2% net profit margin (Hims & Hers, a public competitor with 2,400+ employees, hit 5.5%) 250,000 customers by end of 2025
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It wasn't all smooth sailing. His customer service chatbot made up drug prices and hallucinated products Medvi didn't sell. A minor website update once broke checkout and Gallagher sprinted home from a hike to fix it alone. |
Sam Altman predicted this moment in 2024 that a one-person $1 billion business “would have been unimaginable without AI.” He told the NYT he thinks he won a bet with his CEO friends on timing, and wants to “meet the guy.” |
Here's our take: Gallagher launched with AI slop ads, LegalZoom, and AI accounting software. It didn't matter initially but upgraded all of it later once the money was there to do so. The lesson here isn't “start perfect.” It's that good enough gets you to the next level, and the next level funds the upgrade. What actually made the difference was his willingness to do it himself first by building it, breaking it, fixing it, and learning the AI tools well enough to make them work for him. |
The combination of grit and AI fluency is the real unlock. The tools are available to anyone, and figuring it out is the part only you can bring. All it takes is an idea and the willingness to nurture it despite challenges and limitations. |
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🎓 AI Skill of the Day: Run a Powerful AI Model on Your Laptop for Free |
Paying for AI API costs every month? George Liu shared a way to run Google's Gemma 4 entirely on his MacBook, with no internet, no subscriptions, and no data leaving his machine. |
The tool that makes it possible is LM Studio, which just released a new version that lets you download and run AI models straight from your computer's command line. Think of it like having your own private ChatGPT that lives on your hard drive. |
The gist: You install LM Studio, download Gemma 4 (about 18 GB), and it spins up a local server on your machine that any AI tool can talk to, the sme way they'd talk to OpenAI or Anthropic, just without the bill. Liu has the full walkthrough here. |
Here's what it looks like in action: Liu typed a question into his terminal, Gemma 4 responds at 51 words per second, and a little stats readout shows up after each reply (tokens processed, response time, memory used.) He also tested its vision capabilities by feeding it a screenshot, and it correctly described every element on screen: the title, the map, the schedule grid, the icons at the bottom. All running locally, no cloud involved. |
Our favorite insight: Gemma 4 is technically a 26-billion-parameter model but only activates 4 billion at a time so it runs at a surprisingly snappy 51 words per second on a standard MacBook Pro. Big-model quality, small-model speed, completely free. |
Want more tips like this? Check out our AI Skill of the Day Digest(link) for this week. |
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📰 Around the Horn |
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Chinese workers are out here creating "colleagues.skill" files to make their coworkers replaceable by AI. So someone built an "anti-distillation.skill" to fight back. It strips out your real knowledge before handing the file over. |
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Anthropic told Claude Code subscribers they can no longer use their subscription limits for third-party tools like OpenClaw, moving them to a separate pay-as-you-go plan. The policy will roll out to all third-party harnesses soon. Japan's government set a target to capture 30% of the global physical AI market by 2040, driven by a labor shortage so severe that one investor called it "industrial survival." China's Ministry of Education released a white paper greenlighting AI tools that monitor students' facial expressions, screen for psychological problems, and build behavioral profiles with a goal to universalize AI in all primary and secondary schools by 2030. Investors rushed to unload $600M in OpenAI shares on secondary markets with no takers, while Anthropic attracted over $1.6B in demand at a valuation 50% higher than its last funding round. Researchers at Tohoku University trained living rat brain cells to perform machine learning tasks — generating sine waves, square waves, and even chaotic signals — marking the first time biological neurons have been used as a computing resource.
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😹 Monday Meme |
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Your AI security cam caught an intruder! Oh, never mind. Thanks to AI, nothing looks sus. Cue Billie Eilish: “I'm the bad guy, duh.” 🤣 |
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