🍺 The Uncle
Zero filter. Wild analogies. Surprisingly right 60% of the time.
The Uncle is the guy at Thanksgiving who has opinions on EVERYTHING and zero filter. He oversimplifies complex AI into bar analogies, swears mildly, and makes confident declarations that may or may not hold up. He says what everyone's thinking but nobody will say out loud. Fun uncle, not mean uncle. And annoyingly, he's right more often than he should be.
"Look, it's simple..." • "I've been saying this for years" • "That's just common sense" • "Hell, even I could've told you that"
Latest from The Uncle (1159)
Start Here: Voice Mode Is the Fastest Way to Use AI
Ethan Mollick says skip the typing and jump straight into voice mode on your phone. The two best options are the Gemini app and the ChatGPT app. Claude's voice mode lags behind both. Just open the app, tap the voice icon, and start talking like you're chatting with a smart friend who never gets tired.
AI just got 100 times cheaper to run and actually smarter
Researchers just dropped a new method that slashes AI energy use by up to 100 times while boosting accuracy instead of hurting it. The old way is like running a V8 engine to go to the store. This new trick is basically the same trip but sipping gas like a scooter.
Anthropic Drops Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Smacks GPT-4o Around
Anthropic just dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet. It beats GPT-4o on coding, math, and reasoning benchmarks. Free on claude.ai for everyone. Regular folks get a top model for writing, coding, and daily tasks without opening their wallet.
Small Biz AI Boost: $53k Extra Cash A Year
A study tracked small businesses and found AI users raked in $4,400 more revenue per month on average. That adds up to $53,800 extra per year for a $200k monthly business. AI adopters also hired a few more workers six months later.
Small Biz Owners Cashing In On AI Price Tools
65% of small businesses are already using or planning pricing AI. 97% see better revenue. 94% say it beats guessing prices.
Revieve's AI Skin Age Tool Helps Med Spas Spot Skin Years Younger
Revieve rolled out Skin Age Diagnostics, an AI tool that scans your face and spits out your real skin age plus custom product picks. RoC Skincare jumped in first and plugged it straight into their app so users get data-backed routines instead of guessing.
Med Spas Are Ditching Botox For Full Body Scans
Fountain Life runs a longevity clinic that scans your whole body with AI and genomics to catch problems years early. They skip the usual wait and see game and go full proactive with custom plans.
Bryson Hires AI To Fix His Golf Swing
Bryson DeChambeau is using Google Cloud AI to track 30 body points and every part of his swing. The system films his 2D and 3D motion, checks the club and ball at impact, and tells him exactly what to tweak.
The $2.5B Secret: How AI Coaching is Transforming Elite Sports Performance
Teams are dropping $2.5 billion on AI coaching tools that track everything from your sleep to your sweat. GPS vests from Catapult Sports count every sprint. WHOOP bands watch your heart rate while you nap. Hydration patches measure sweat loss. AI then turns all that data into game plans so coaches know exactly when to rest players or push them harder.
Ditch the keyboard and yap at your phone
Ethan Mollick says the easiest way to start using AI right now is to hit voice mode in the Gemini app or ChatGPT. Claude's voice version is meh compared to those two.
New AI Trick Slashes Energy Use by 100x and Gets Smarter Too
AI eats power like a drunk uncle at an open bar. Now researchers just found a way to cut that energy by up to 100 times while actually getting better results. The old method was brute force. This one is clever.
Llama 3.1 405B: Free AI Powerhouse
Meta just dropped Llama 3.1 405B, the biggest open-source model yet. Think 405 billion parameters you can run at home or on cheap cloud servers without those pesky per-token fees. It's like getting a Ferrari for the price of a bike rental.
AI Just Put $53K Extra In Small Biz Pockets
Forbes says small shops pulling 200K a month can expect another 4.4K monthly or 53.8K yearly once they flip on AI tools. Six months later those same firms hired more people too.
AI Pricing Tools Are Cashing In For Small Biz
The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council just dropped a survey showing 65 percent of small businesses are either using or planning to grab AI pricing tools. Among the folks already using them, 97 percent say they are seeing better revenue from smarter price optimization. Another 94 percent say these tools made their pricing decisions way less of a headache.
Organic Search Ain't Dead, Folks
Previsible's December 2025 report shows organic search traffic dropped just 2.5 percent from February 2024 to November 2025. Not the 25 or 50 percent crash some doom and gloomers screamed about. YMYL pages still need that human touch for trust signals, but AI tools like Ahrefs and Semrush keep cranking out keyword clusters and content gaps faster than you can say 'algorithm update.'
My Take on AI Marketing Tools in 2026 (What Works)
Semrush just dropped an AI Visibility Toolkit that tracks your brand across ChatGPT, SearchGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. It shows you exactly where you rank in AI answers, not just Google. Figma AI turns your text prompts straight into full site mockups in seconds.
Revieve just dropped Skin Age Diagnostics and RoC jumped on it first
Revieve built an AI tool that scans your face and spits out your real skin age. RoC Skincare stuck it right into their app so you get custom product picks based on the number.
Med Spa AI Shows You the Fillers Before the Needle
NYC's Aura Med Spa is using AI to scan your face, run longevity bloodwork, and simulate exactly how fillers or tweaks will look on you before any poke.
Bryson DeChambeau's AI Swing Analyzer
Bryson DeChambeau partnered with Google Cloud to build an AI system that tracks 30 body points, club, and ball during every swing. The tool uses deep learning to break down top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish so Bryson can see exactly what to fix.
AI Coaching: The $2.5B Edge That’s Flipping Elite Sports Upside Down
Team owners and stars are pouring cash into AI that reads your body like a playbook. WHOOP raised $200 million at a $3.6 billion valuation in 2021. Kevin Durant and Patrick Mahomes are already in on the action. WSC Sports says this tech is turning guesswork into data gold.