#7 The Weekend Download – Catching Up on What Matters

Essential insights you need to stay ahead

📩 Issue #7 – 05/04/2025

⚡ Quick Hits – What You Need to Know

🧠 Neuralink goes global – Elon Musk's brain-implant company is quietly recruiting researchers worldwide as it expands its human trials.
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🇺🇸 Immigration fears shake Silicon Valley – A new report shows how uncertainty around H-1B visas is impacting tech talent and innovation.
🔗 Read More (Washington Post)

📉 Layoff season continues – From big tech to startups, here’s the running list of 2025’s tech layoffs so far.
🔗 Read More (TechCrunch)

📱 Apple’s new emojis drop – Harp, fingerprint, tired face—your keyboard’s been updated.
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🔥 Top Insights

🎥 TikTok explains tariffs now – A new genre of viral videos is helping Gen Z decode trade policy—turns out tariffs can go viral.
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🧬 AI is rewriting the rules of security – Microsoft is using AI to spot flaws pointing to a new frontier in cybersecurity.
🔗 Read More (Bleeping Computer)

💸 Dubai's real estate tokens – The city is piloting a system to tokenize real estate using blockchain—turning skyscrapers into assets anyone can invest in.
🔗 Read More (Cointelegraph)

🧪 First male birth control pill without hormones? – A hormone-free male contraceptive just cleared another major milestone.
🔗 Read More (University of Minnesota)

👗 H&M’s AI influencer army – The brand is quietly testing AI-generated models on social, raising questions about authenticity and the future of fashion marketing.
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📊 Numbers to Watch

📱 Facebook’s engagement plunge – A look at how Meta’s flagship lost its cultural grip and where users are going instead.
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🖤 Black cats go viral – Thanks to a hit movie, black cat adoptions are up—defying old superstitions.
🔗 Read More (PetHelpful)

💡 Something to Think About

🤖 Can AI translate literature? – As AI translation tools get more advanced, authors and publishers are debating their place in the creative process.
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🎬 Streaming shows as societal mirrors – From Severance to White Lotus, prestige TV is becoming a lens for cultural self-examination.
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🧠 Yuval Harari on the singularity – The historian dives deep into the future of intelligence, humanity, and the line between tool and mind.
🔗 Read More (Wired)

🌀 Offbeat & Unexpected

🐦 AI to the rescue—for birds – Scientists are using AI to help save Australia’s endangered Plains-wanderer.
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🎭 A social app for joy, not rage – A new social platform is trying to fight "rage bait" and bring some serotonin back to your feed.
🔗 Read More (TechCrunch)

⚽ Arsenal’s dating experiment – The football club is launching a dating show for fans. Yes, really.
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💸 $10K to find your match? – Far-right influencers are organising a luxury matchmaking weekend with a price tag of up to $10,000, aiming to “repopulate the Earth.” It’s part dating event, part ideological movement.
🔗 Read More (Wired)