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Welcome back from the long weekend, Future Party. Here’s a scary fact to snap you back to reality — a new study in the Traffic Injury Prevention journal found that teens use their phones 21% of the time they’re driving. Some are simply using them for maps (no one seems to know where they’re going these days), but more concerningly, many are using them for “entertainment” or “productivity.” Other than convincing kids to put down their phones, it looks like we could really use a chatbot to help keep us hands-free behind the wheel.

A team of international cognitive scientists has developed an AI system, Centaur, that mimics the human brain, including logical thought, decision-making, and behavioral psychology.

The Big Thought: Historically, psychological experiments have focused on a single aspect of research. The team behind Centaur aims to study how the entire brain functions to understand the connections between thoughts and actions on a broader scale.

Between the Gray Matter: Marcel Binz, a cognitive scientist at the German research center Helmholtz Munich, wrote about the innovations of Centaur in Nature.

Final Idea: Unlike most cognitive studies, Dr. Binz admits that Centaur was built without testing a specific theory of the mind — he and his team just wanted to see if they could pull it off. The team plans to train Centaur on five times as many studies before doing another round of experiments.

Prediction: Centaur could be a paradigm shift for research of the mind, enabling researchers to validate their findings with an AI trained on a larger group of humans than they’ll likely ever have access to.

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The global economy is undergoing a paradigm shift as millennials begin to inherit trillions of dollars of wealth from boomers… which will be a boon for the already maturing crypto industry.

Why It Hits: The Wild West era of crypto, defined by meme coins and profile-picture NFTs, is finally starting to ride off into the sunset. But the economy has been irrevocably changed as mainstream leaders in finance and banking utilize blockchain to update their offerings.

Between the Tokens: Fast Company believes that millennials are the “bridge” to the full adoption of crypto.

The Future: In another surprising development, the North American crypto market is now the largest market in the world for crypto transfers exceeding $1 million, representing 70% of such trades. That means institutional investors (you know, the big funds) are heavily exposed to that world. We’re not sure if trickle-down economics is real, but trickle-down investing certainly is… so average Americans are likely right behind them.

Prediction: While the typical 401(k) portfolio is made up of stocks and bonds, expect crypto to become the de facto third category of investment. Even crypto-skeptics will want to hedge.

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52.8% of you said Yes in Thursday’s poll: Do you think streaming platforms should offer more traditional news shows?

“Yes, provided they’re more balanced. It should be about 50/50, with lots of alternative options. And I want real investigative reporting — not all of this jokester entertainment that has overtaken the industry.”

“So long as it’s balanced and fact-checked. I have cable now only for the big networks, but I would cut the cord if they were all on Netflix.”

“We have access to more news than we know what to do with. If I’m watching a streaming service, I’m doing it to be entertained, not tell me what else is wrong with our world!”

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🍿 Lilo & Stitch is now the highest-grossing movie of 2025 so far, raking in $957.6 million at the global box office.

🎮 Several games have been cancelled at Xbox as Microsoft lays off around 9,000 employees.

⌚ AMC Theatres is informing audiences that they should expect 25 to 30 minutes of ads before each showing.

👀 Meta is training its chatbots to slide into users’ DMs with unprompted follow-up messages. Great.

🤖 Ilya Sutskever, former OpenAI chief scientist, is stepping into the CEO role at his new startup, Safe Superintelligence, after the departure of the founding CEO last month.

👓 New smartglasses from startup TranscribeGlass can reportedly display real-time subtitles of conversations.

🛍️ After nearly two decades of ecommerce reigning supreme, customers are rediscovering the joys of brick-and-mortar stores.

👯‍♀️ H&M is showing off its first campaign using AI digital twins.

👻 OpenAI wants you to know that Robinhood’s tokenized offering of its private shares is… well… not real at all.