A story and an experiment have been spreading on X: Scientists uploaded the brain of a fruit fly into a computer, and now it lives freely in its own simulation.

We managed to clone the physical form of animals more than 30 years ago (for example, the cloning of a goat using SCNT in 1999). There was even a controversial case in China where a scientist was sued after attempting to create gene-edited babies in 2018.

TL;DR: Anthropic refused to sign a contract with the Pentagon that would have allowed the U.S. military to use all of its models without restrictions. Anthropic insisted on an exception, and brace yourself, that its models cannot be used: 1) for mass surveillance of citizens, 2) for autonomous killing. Now the administration is threatening that if the founder of Anthropic doesn't change his mind by a certain date, they will come after him.

Google, OpenAI, and Musk (Grok) have all signed the contract.

Following Sam Altman's announcement over the past few hours, people have been speaking out massively about cancelling their OpenAI subscriptions and subscribing to Claude.

I have been thinking about situations where clients specifically ask for AI agents to simplify a process. On the surface, it sounds reasonable. They want something intelligent to classify, route, or decide. But when we go deeper into the actual workflow, we often find that the logic is completely structured. It might just be routing leads based on budget, geography, or service type. In those cases, a simple if-else condition or a fetch record from a table would solve the problem cleanly.

Another common case is using AI to analyze structured form submissions. If the inputs are predefined dropdowns and checkboxes, there is nothing to interpret. A fetch record or rule-based filter is cleaner, cheaper, and easier to maintain.

So the real question is this: are we adding AI agents because they actually do the job better, faster, or more efficiently? Or are we just throwing AI into the mix because it sounds cool and everyone else is doing it?

This is rooted in psychology.

When you show that there is enormous interest in something, a crowd of people will flock and want to see it.

I woke up this morning, and X was full of this message:

Yesterday went through this Tweet by Greg Isenberg.

There is an app called "rent a human."

First of all, I want to thank you for voting for us in yesterday's launch - you still can, the week is not over. HERE

Second thing, I summarised some things that I realised, reflected on, and maybe should have known sooner:

It s almost here for me. In three days, I ll be relaunching a major update for the app I have been collaborating with, and I ve set clear boundaries for myself about what I will and won t do before the launch. I guess these are some general, unwritten rules I try to follow

Definitely DON T:

• Accept offers from charlatans promising votes or engagement for money

• Send unsolicited messages begging for votes or support

• Spam other people s posts with launch announcements

We won t pretend that the world isn t tense, because relations between countries are increasingly strained. (Coming from a country that never had technological or numerical superiority, we ve mostly become just part of the regime.)

But not everyone is on the same page, and countries are investing in defence.

In about 17 days (I hope I m counting correctly), I ll be re-launching the mobile app, and now I m wondering how much the Product Hunt community will try it out.

I spend 100% of my time on a desktop on this platform.

But the majority of the population is mobile-only.

Yesterday, I came across a job posting from a specific SF company that offered Yesterday I came across a job posting from a specific SF company that offered a salary of 250k 1M (including equity), but realistically, I don't think they have that money; they're just grinding to satisfy investors and succumb to too much hustle culture.

Requirement: be available on-site from 9 AM to 9 PM 6 days a week in the office (and I bet even Sunday would be dedicated to meeting some team members in "free time"). In addition, they were willing to hire those who would relocate to SF.

I see OpenAI as a tech giant that sets the direction in AI, and I try to follow their steps.

Right at the beginning of the year, 2 news items that reached my news horizon resonated with me:

I just read an article from TechCrunch about how Robotics company 1X has struck a deal to send up to 10,000 Neo humanoid robots originally marketed for home use (but they want to focus on factory use in the future, although that was their original intention).

This made me think about several things:

I'm doing research on which OS is worth making an educational app for, and jotted down some pros/cons for both iOS and Android.

Android:

It is known that there are more Android users, so you can potentially have a larger testing/user base.

Product Hunt just turned 12 (yeah 12) :D

Shoutout to everyone who s ever hit that Launch button with shaky hands and zero clue what was gonna happen next :P

Elon Musk was extremely frustrated that Wikipedia couldn t be manipulated, and he even offered $1 billion if they renamed it to d*ckipedia.

Since that didn t work out, he s now trying to build his own platform for gathering information claiming that Wikipedia is hopelessly biased, and that left-leaning editors influence its content.

Elon Musk was extremely frustrated that Wikipedia couldn t be manipulated, and he even offered $1 billion if they renamed it to d*ckipedia.

Since that didn t work out, he s now trying to build his own platform for gathering information claiming that Wikipedia is hopelessly biased, and that left-leaning editors influence its content.

Yesterday, @zaczuo shared an idea about delivering packages from space. To me, that seems quite sci-fi and financially demanding to actually pull off. Today, I m reading that Bezos predicts millions of people could be living in space by 2050.

How realistic is this scenario, given that the last time we set foot on the Moon was more than 50 years ago? (And above all, I feel like we still can t solve basic problems on Earth, let alone expand into space.)

I have seen (let's say) quite a lot of hardware robots to be launched on Product Hunt, and we tend to be bullish about such futuristic things. BUT...

Renowned roboticist Rodney Brooks says that this is only a bubble.

Because of two reasons:

Today, I noticed a small update on my profile while replying to your comments.

A new button has been added specifically, the option to "downvote" a comment.

Everywhere else I look podcasts, social media, even casual discussions  longevity is a hot topic. Bryan Johnson, for example, shows up in my feed constantly.

For me, health-tech feels like the most valuable thing we could be building. Not just extending life expectancy, but actually improving quality of life.