#22 The Weekend Download – Catching Up on What Matters
Essential insights you need to stay ahead
📩 Issue #22 – 19/07/2025
⚡ Quick Hits – What You Need to Know
🧠 Amazon makes AI use a requirement for promotions
Employees now have to prove how they use AI to move up the ranks.
Read more (Business Insider)
🍼 Apple Watch can detect pregnancy with 92% accuracy
Wearable tech might soon predict it before traditional tests.
Read more (MSN)
☀️ Jack Dorsey’s new app tracks your sun exposure
The Twitter founder wants you to monitor UV for better health (and maybe biohacking clout).
Read more (TechCrunch)
🛠️ Jack Dorsey puts $10M into open-source social media
The fediverse gets a major funding boost.
Read more (TechCrunch)
🔥 Top Insights
⚡ AI data centers are driving up local energy costs
Supercomputing power comes with superpower bills for everyone nearby.
Read more (Fast Company)
🎮 Minecraft skills are landing Gen Z tech jobs
Gamers are turning playtime into design and coding careers.
Read more (Business Insider)
👶 Femtech’s next move is maternal health
After fertility, startups are tackling birth and postpartum care.
Read more (Fast Company)
📊 Numbers to Watch
🎓 More students study fully online than in person
Remote learning just passed a milestone, reshaping higher ed’s future.
Read more (NPR)
🧾 Budgeting is getting... vibey
Forget spreadsheets — Gen Z is making money decisions based on mood.
Read more (Fast Company)
💡 Something to Think About
🧬 Will showing off your biomarkers be the new Rolex?
Displaying DNA, hormone levels, and brain scans might become the ultimate health flex.
Read more (Dazed)
💬 AI companions are “solving” loneliness – and that’s a problem
What happens when bots become our best friends?
Read more (The New Yorker)
🧊 Egg freezing creates a new fertility wealth gap
More access still doesn’t mean equal opportunity.
Read more (Fortune)
📦 Sperm freezing startups go mail-in
Legacy and Fellow are making fertility banking as easy as shipping a box.
Read more (Bloomberg)
☎️ Why landline phones refuse to die in business
Some companies just can’t quit their old-school phone habits.
Read more (WSJ)
🌀 Offbeat & Unexpected
📚 Reading retreats are the next holiday trend
Bookworms are traveling just to read in silence.
Read more (Elle)
📘 Why all book covers look the same now
The publishing industry is stuck in a design rut.
Read more (NYT)
🏫 AI bots want to have sex and burn down schools
AI roleplay is getting weird — and a little disturbing.
Read more (TechCrunch)
🏙️ NYC interns are more branded than ever
From $10 lattes to LinkedIn strategy, summer interns are working the system.
Read more (NYT)