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Happy Saturday, friend.The news just made history. For the first time ever, one person's net worth crossed the trillion-dollar line. Elon Musk, of course. Here's the thing. Your brain can't actually picture it. A million, sure. A billion, maybe. But a trillion sails so far past normal human scale that it stops meaning anything.
🪙 So imagine you had a trillion dollars in cash and decided to spend it the hard way. One dollar, every single second, no sleep, no breaks, until it's gone. How long would it take to spend one trillion dollars at a dollar a second? A) 32 years B) 3,200 years C) Almost 32,000 years D) About a weekend, if you turn Barry loose at the ham radio store. Take a guess and the answer is earning interest at the end.
📞 AI voice cloning targets families: Your phone buzzes. Your kid’s panicked voice says there’s been an accident and they need money immediately. Scammers buy your family details from data brokers, then use AI to clone voices. I use Incogni to automatically remove my information from these sites. They’ve completed 2,748 removal requests for me. Get 60% off now. Crooks can’t scam you if they can’t find you.* — Kim
TODAY’S DEEP DIVE
Remix and match
Image: ChatGPT/Kim Komando
⚡ TL;DR
YouTube’s new Reimagine tool lets anyone insert themselves into a Short with a few taps. It’s free and already live.
Your videos are opted into remixing by default. Strangers can grab your clips and AI-generate themselves into them without asking.
One setting locks it down. Here’s where to find it.
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Whoa. That’s me up top on the big screen TV, starring in a futuristic sci-fi flick like I trained for it my whole life. (I didn’t. The closest I get to special effects is yelling at Siri.)
YouTube quietly switched on AI tools that let you drop yourself into someone else’s video or remix their clip with you in the starring role. Fun, yes, but there is a gotcha.
Three billion people are on YouTube. Almost none of them knows this button is sitting there. Now, you do.
🎬 Put yourself in the video
A new tool called Reimagine is rolling out free in the YouTube app. It takes a single scene from an eligible Short and rebuilds it into a fresh clip with you in it. Want to be the one skydiving, dancing or cooking? A few taps and a selfie, and you’re in.
The AI generates audio to match. Here’s how to try it:
Open the YouTube app and find an eligible Short.
Tap Remix, then Reimagine.
Type what you want, or pick one of the suggested prompts.
Add up to three photos from your gallery. A clear, well-lit selfie works best.
Tap Next and let it generate, then preview before you post.
It’s still rolling out, so if you don’t see Reimagine yet, give it a week or so. Every clip you make links back to the original video, so the creator still gets credit.
🔒 Lock down your own videos
This is the part nobody’s advertising. Your videos are opted into remixing by default. That means strangers can grab your clips and turn them into AI versions without asking.
Anything you’ve posted, a birthday clip, a backyard moment, a video of the grandkids, can be fed into the tool by a total stranger. If that makes your skin crawl, change it.
This one’s desktop only, and you set it per video. Annoying, I know.
Check the box next to the video you want to protect.
Click Edit in the bar that appears at the top.
Select Shorts remixing from the drop-down.
Choose Allow only audio remixing or Don’t allow remixing.
The fun and the risk are the same feature. Play with it, then go protect what’s yours. Both take five minutes.
📩 Send this to someone who posts videos of their kids or grandkids online. You can also share this on your social media using the links below. More the merrier.
Picture this. Your phone buzzes. It’s your kid’s number, and it’s your kid’s voice, panicked, saying there’s been an accident and they need money right now. You’d move heaven and earth, wouldn’t you? Any of us would. And that’s exactly what the scammer is counting on.
Criminals buy your phone number and family details from data brokers. These companies collect and sell your personal information, often without you knowing it. Then they use AI to clone a loved one’s voice and make that call.
You can’t stop voice cloning, but you can make it harder for scammers to find you. I rely on Incogni. It automatically contacts data brokers and requests the removal of your information. Even better, Incogni continues to monitor the internet to help keep it off. So far, Incogni has completed 2,748 removal requests for me. They can’t scam you if they can’t find you.
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🛰️ IPO leaves Earth: Let’s add some numbers to the hype. SpaceX raised $75 billion in its IPO, officially one of the largest in history. Goldman and Morgan Stanley pocket $100 million each in fees. That kind of money builds rockets, funds Mars dreams and makes a lot of early investors very rich overnight. But everyday investors? By the time a hyped stock reaches your screen, the easy money’s usually gone. Be sure to check out the What the Tech? image below that shows how SpaceX makes and loses money.
🚨What the Flock? Get this. A camera flagged the wrong guy, a San Diego man who paid for it with a month behind bars. Cops hunting a red Alfa Romeo and a gray hoodie arrested Hugo Parra, who wore a white hoodie in a friend’s car. No plate. No real match. Here’s the kicker: The Flock data they used to lock him up actually showed he was 5 miles away when the crime happened. He’s now suing. Surveillance is only as smart as the people reading it.
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Wrist zombie time: Apple declared a watch too old to fix. The Apple Watch Series 1 came out in 2016 as the cheaper, faster sequel to the original, with a dual-core chip that made apps less molasses-y and helped push fitness rings, heart-rate checks and wrist notifications into daily life. The dead-watch roll call includes the original Apple Watch, Series 1 and Series 2, with Series 3, 4 and 5 limping toward the cliff. Your options: third-party repair, drawer retirement or buy a new one.
🚖 Subscribe for silence: Leave it to Silicon Valley to turn sitting alone in a car into a monthly subscription. Waymo launched Premier, a $29.99-a-month tier that buys you priority pickup and more in its driverless robotaxis. No driver. No awkward small talk. No tip math. Only you, a wheel turning by itself and cameras logging every trip. (Thirty bucks a month to be chauffeured and surveilled. Bargain.) I might try one this weekend. No promises. Guess you could say the future is driving itself, straight to your wallet.
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Emergency calls get VIP: Do Not Disturb is great until it blocks someone who actually needs you. Let repeat callers break through. On iPhone, open Settings > Focus > Do Not Disturb > People > Allow Repeated Calls. On Android, try Settings > Notifications > Do not disturb > Repeat callers. Sleep mode, not vanish mode.
🔍 Chrome can price-snoop: Shopping online? Right-click a blank spot on the page and choose Search this tab with Google Lens. Drag over the product, and the AI will show matches from other stores, sometimes cheaper. It works on animals, cars and landmarks, too. Basically “what is this?” with receipts.
Your HomePod isn’t haunted: If it started playing music at 3 a.m. for no reason, yours isn’t the only one. The real demon is dust and grease causing “ghost touches.” Clean the top surface regularly. Also open the Home app > Settings > Accessibility > Touch Accommodations > Hold Duration. Make taps harder to trigger.
🗺️ Maps before the meltdown: Download travel maps in Google Maps before your phone decides the internet is optional. Tap your profile picture > Offline maps, select the area (bigger is better) and hit Download. You can still search places and get directions without a signal. iPhone folks, grab the app if you don’t have it. Android has it preinstalled.
WHAT THE TECH?
Image: App Economy Insights
🚀 Rockets don’t pay the bills
I saw this chart from App Economy Insights and wanted to share it with you. Everybody thinks SpaceX is a rocket company. The money says otherwise.
Of the $18.7 billion it brought in last year, rockets accounted for $4.1 billion. The real cash cow is Starlink, the satellite internet beamed to RVs, cabins and cruise ships, which pulled in $11.4 billion from nearly 9 million subscribers. There’s even a new AI slice now that SpaceX swallowed xAI. And the kicker?
Despite all of it, the company still lost $2.6 billion running the place. Launching rockets is the easy part. Paying for them is where things get a little spacey.
🔜 Tomorrow: From giant buttons to hidden custom options, I’ll show you how tablets guilt you into overtipping and how to take back control before you tap.
The answer: C) Almost 32,000 years. Spend a dollar a second and a million's gone in 11 and a half days. A billion takes almost 32 years. A trillion? About 31,700 years, longer than humans have farmed. Even at a million dollars a day, you'd need 2,740 years to burn through it. Stack a trillion in hundred-dollar bills and the pile climbs over 600 miles into space.
Our new trillionaire could buy every NFL, MLB, NHL and NBA team, plus the top 10 soccer clubs, and still pocket hundreds of billions.
Back in the day, money made more sense. Everyone had common cents.
⚠️ That emergency call from your kid might be fake: Scammers use AI to clone voices after buying your family details from data brokers. They call, pretending to be your panicked child needing emergency money. Incogni removes your information from data broker sites automatically and keeps monitoring. Protect your family from these scams: Get 60% off with code KIM60.*
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