🍺 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)
Bryson DeChambeau Uses Google AI to Crush Golf Shots
Bryson straps on Google Cloud AI that tracks 30+ body points in 2D and 3D while the club and ball fly. The system logs top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish so he sees exactly what worked and what did not. He treats every shot like lab data instead of guesswork.
AI Coaching Is Changing How the Pros Get Better, and the Numbers Are Stupid Big
WSC Sports is tracking a $2.5B market where teams and VCs pour cash into AI that watches every swing, throw, and sprint. WHOOP pulled in $200M at a $3.6B valuation in 2021. Kevin Durant and Patrick Mahomes threw money at it too. The tech reads your heart rate, sleep, and reps so coaches know when to push or pull back before you blow a hammy.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Beats GPT-4o on Coding and Vision
Anthropic dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet and it jumped straight to the top of the LMSYS leaderboard. It crushes GPT-4o on coding tasks, math problems, and reading pictures like a champ. Small teams can use it for free on claude.ai or pay cheap API rates to get frontier power without the big budget.
Uncle's Take: Meta Just Dropped a Free 405B Beast
Meta open-sourced the full weights of Llama 3.1 405B. This monster matches or beats GPT-4 on plenty of tasks, and now any developer or small biz can run it locally or on cheap GPUs without paying OpenAI a dime.
AI Gives Small Biz an Extra $53k a Year
A new Forbes write-up on a study shows that companies pulling in 200k a month who start using AI tools see an average bump of 4400 bucks every month. That works out to almost 54 grand extra per year. The same outfits also kept a few more employees six months later, so it is not just revenue that grows.
Small Biz AI Pricing Tools Are Printing Money
The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council just dropped a survey showing 65 percent of small businesses are already using or plan to grab AI pricing tools. Of the ones using them, 97 percent saw revenue climb thanks to smarter price tweaks, and 94 percent say the tools paid for themselves fast.
AI SEO Stats That Actually Matter in 2026
Organic search traffic only dropped 2.5 percent from Feb 2024 to Nov 2025, says Previsible. So forget the 'SEO is dead' noise. AI tools are just another lever. Use them to speed up keyword research, cluster topics, and draft outlines, then polish for E-E-A-T and YMYL rules.
The Uncle's 2026 AI Marketing Cheat Sheet
Semrush just dropped its AI Visibility Toolkit that scans your brand mentions inside ChatGPT, SearchGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity in one click. Figma AI turns a plain text prompt into full landing page mockups in seconds. Both tools are live right now and cost less than most old school SEO suites.
Revieve drops AI Skin Age tool, RoC jumps on board first
Revieve launched Skin Age Diagnostics. Snap a selfie, the AI guesses your skin age, then spits out a custom product list. RoC Skincare stuck it straight into their website so shoppers get the readout in under ten seconds.
Haut.AI Turns Your Selfie Into a Full Skincare Lab
Snap one photo, get a skin report with 20+ metrics on wrinkles, redness, and pores, then receive product picks matched to your exact needs. The platform uses AI trained on 1.5 million images and runs the whole analysis in under 30 seconds.
Golf's AI Swing Doctor: Bryson DeChambeau Turns to Google Cloud
Bryson is using Google's AI tools to film his swing and break it down into 30+ body points, club angles, and ball flight. The system spits out exact fixes for his top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish so he can tweak one tiny thing instead of guessing.
AI Coaching Hits the Golf Course
WSC Sports says AI is worth $2.5 billion to pro teams because it turns every swing, sleep score, and sweat drop into hard data. GPS vests from Catapult Sports track running load, WHOOP bands measure recovery, and smart hydration patches read your sweat in real time. All that info feeds AI models that spit out personalized training plans and injury warnings before they happen.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Now Runs Your Whole Computer
Anthropic just gave Claude 3.5 Sonnet real-time computer control so it can move your mouse, click buttons, and run apps just by hearing plain English.
Meta just dropped a 405-billion-parameter monster you can actually run yourself
Llama 3.1 405B matches or beats GPT-4o on most benchmarks, and you can download the weights for free or call it through cheap APIs with no vendor lock-in.
AI Just Handed Small Biz Owners An Extra 53k A Year
A new Forbes report shows companies pulling 200k a month who added AI tools saw an extra 4,400 a month or 53,800 a year. They also hired a few more folks six months later. The study tracked hundreds of small firms that started using AI for sales, marketing, and ops.
Small Biz Pricing AI Is Making 97% More Money
SBE Council survey shows 65% of small businesses are already using or rolling out AI pricing tools. 97% of those users say revenue jumped thanks to smarter price tweaks. 94% also report less guesswork on what customers will actually pay. The tools scan sales data, competitor prices, and demand swings to auto-adjust your prices daily or even hourly. Tools mentioned include dynamic pricing platforms that plug right into your POS or Shopify store.
Semrush's new AI Visibility Toolkit is the 2026 cheat code for showing up in ChatGPT and Perplexity
Semrush built a single dashboard that scans how your brand appears inside ChatGPT, SearchGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Type your brand name, hit scan, and it spits out a visibility score plus a list of missing mentions you can fix. The tool also tracks which AI answers link back to your site so you can double down on what works.
BrazeAI Turns Its Canvas Flow Into A Revenue-Spinning Machine
BrazeAI jams predictive smarts and generative AI straight into Canvas Flow so brands can send the right message to the right person at the right micro-second without hiring an army of analysts. The real money-maker is the decisioning layer that scores each customer in real time and picks the next best action, lifting revenue 15-20 percent for early testers like Sephora and Peloton.
Revieve drops Skin Age Diagnostics so your face tells the truth about its birthday
Revieve just launched Skin Age Diagnostics, an AI tool that snaps your selfie, guesses how old your skin looks, and spits out a custom routine. RoC Skincare is the first brand shoving this gadget straight into its website so shoppers get instant recs instead of guessing which cream to buy.
Your DNA Just Got a Free Skincare Consultant
Forget the $300 med spa consult. AI tools now pair with at-home DNA kits to spit out a custom anti-aging cream recipe while you sit on your couch. Doctors Best Wellness claims the whole thing takes under 10 minutes and costs less than one in-office visit.