🛎️ AI Small Theater

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Not all AI should be built to optimize efficiency. Some AI should exist to accompany humans as they learn how to think.

NEW LAUNCH

AI Small Theater Enters Children’s Everyday

👀 What’s happening: Evie’s Magical Tale introduces a new AI category best described as an AI small theater. Children no longer consume stories but stage them. Characters converse, debate, and improvise together. Intelligence shifts from answering prompts to performing roles inside a shared narrative space that feels alive.

🌍 How this hits reality: This quietly alters how humans first encounter AI. Instead of tools, feeds, or tutors, children meet intelligence as characters and dialogue. That matters. Early cognition is shaped by stories, not interfaces. A screen free system with 100 plus personas and dual character reasoning reframes AI as environment, not software.

🛎️ Key takeaway: If this spreads, AI’s cultural role changes before regulation or norms catch up. We move from AI as assistant to AI as world builder. The long term impact is not productivity, but how a generation learns to think.

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NEW LAUNCH

DeepSeek Bets Memory, Not Compute, Is the Next Bottleneck

👀 What’s happening: DeepSeek published a paper introducing Engram, a conditional memory module that stores static knowledge in system RAM rather than GPU HBM. Models query facts instead of recomputing them, freeing GPUs for reasoning. Long context accuracy jumps, and memory and compute are treated as separable resources.

🌍 How this hits reality: HBM is scarce and expensive, while DRAM and CXL pools scale. Engram shows a 27B model beating MoE baselines and pushing NIAH accuracy to about 97 percent. Compared with Nvidia KVCache, this is persistent knowledge, not session memory. The stress shifts from GPUs to system memory supply.

🛎️ Key takeaway: If this pattern holds, inference economics change. Teams buy fewer top tier GPUs and more pooled memory. Expect architectures that cache knowledge once and reason selectively, easing HBM pressure while raising new constraints around DRAM capacity and data center memory fabrics.

RETAIL

Walmart Bets Agents Will Replace Storefronts

👀 What’s happening: Walmart is doubling down on agent led commerce by embedding its full shopping flow into Gemini, after already linking with ChatGPT. Instead of forcing users into a Walmart owned interface, it is letting AI models handle discovery, decisions, and checkout.

🌍 How this hits reality: This is a clear open strategy. Walmart is betting model platforms become the new entry point, not branded apps. That contrasts with Amazon, which is still building and defending its own AI surfaces. Walmart trades control for reach. Agents already command daily attention. Plugging in early captures demand before habits and defaults fully lock.

🛎️ Key takeaway: Walmart is positioning itself as the easiest retailer for AI agents to transact with. If agents win, distribution beats ownership. The risk is margin and data leakage. The direction points toward retail competing for agent preference, not consumer clicks.

QUICK HITS

• A consumer watchdog warned Google’s AI shopping protocol could enable data-driven pricing, which Google denies.
• Google updated Veo 3.1 to add native vertical videos from reference images with improved quality and consistency.
• Salesforce released an upgraded Slackbot that integrates data, generates content, and coordinates AI agents.
• Anthropic reshuffled its leadership by moving CPO Mike Krieger into its Labs incubator to scale experimental AI product development.
• Deepgram raised $130 million at a $1.3 billion valuation to expand globally and scale its voice AI platforms.

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Daily AI Launches

• Bookmarkify has launched a designer-focused bookmark tool that lets you view live sites and analyze assets without switching tabs.
• Atoms has launched an AI platform that automates the entire process of building a profitable app, from research to code and payments.
• Alpine has launched a unified workspace for docs, chat, and tasks, featuring an algorithmic feed and context-aware AI agents.
• Phia has launched a macOS screen recorder with intelligent zoom, smooth cursor effects, and layout tools for professional demos.

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