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Happy Wednesday, Future Party. California revealed seven people it’s inducting into the state’s Hall of Fame, and two names particularly stand out — Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis. Coincidentally, both starred opposite each other in True Lies, James Cameron’s somewhat forgotten 1994 hit. All of which makes this feel like as good a time as any for a True Lies rewatch. It also feels like a lifetime since Cameron made a movie that wasn’t part of the Avatar franchise.

Popular self-help gurus are now building chatbots in their likeness, giving people round-the-clock access to their advice.

The Big Picture: Seeing top self-help personalities in person can cost thousands of dollars — and even more for a personal meeting. AI chatbots allow these gurus to scale themselves infinitely… and, of course, open up a new revenue stream. But ensuring these chatbots don’t go off the rails in conversation is a top priority — something AI is still very capable of doing.

Behind The Bots: Your guru is now on demand.

Final Encouragement: Many of these chatbots are powered by a startup called Delphi, founded in 2022, which has raised $16 million in funding. The company promises personalities the two things they want most from a digital double — ownership of their IP and guardrails to prevent harmful conversations.

None of these high-profile personalities want to get in trouble because of something dumb their chatbots might say. So, Delphi gives them the ability to set boundaries around what their chatbot won’t discuss and allows users to reach out to them directly if the chatbot gets stuck. Some problems still require an actual brain.

Next Chat: Between self-help guru chatbots and CEO digital dupes, the ultimate premium experience may soon be access to the real person. For everyone else, there’s a chatbot.

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Body-scanning startups are changing the face of preventive healthcare… if you can afford it.

Why It Hits: Two of the biggest trends right now are health and wellness, and optimization. Full-body scans — literally stepping inside a machine to run head-to-toe diagnostic tests simultaneously — are the perfect encapsulation of both ideas.

Behind The Scans: Body-scan companies want to look at you inside and out.

Last Looks: While these offerings are likely unaffordable for most people, they provide a unique benefit that could revolutionize healthcare. By scanning the whole body at once, these companies can pinpoint specific concerns and potentially examine issues holistically, identifying relationships between seemingly disparate problems. That can save people significant time and money by avoiding the need to visit individual specialists to diagnose a problem.

It has also allegedly saved lives. Prenuvo CEO Andrew Lacy said the company’s machines have made “thousands of potentially life-saving” diagnoses since 2018.

Prescription: It’s possible that a body scan could one day become part of people’s annual physical… if it ever gets covered by insurance.

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64.3% of you voted I’d be uncomfortable with it. in yesterday’s poll: How would you feel about digital cloning (AI copies of someone’s voice or likeness) being used in your workplace?

“It’s a way to bypass building a relationship with the person, which is not only detrimental to working relationships with colleagues but also seems like more work overall.”

“I’m retired, but I would be strongly against it. AI should be used to lighten the load but not live our lives for us.”

“What is wrong with keeping it real?”

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🎥 International production powerhouses Banijay and All3Media are merging to form what could become the biggest indie studio in the world.

📱 Amazon is shutting down the Wondery Podcast App and Wondery+ as it folds everything into Audible.

📺 Charter Communications’ acquisition of Cox Communications was approved by the FCC, making it the biggest internet service provider in the US.

🙂 After being deemed a “supply chain risk” by the Pentagon, Claude skyrocketed to the top of the US App Store.

🙃 After making a deal with the Pentagon, ChatGPT saw a 295% surge in uninstalls.

🤖 Thrive Capital and a16z are leading a new funding round for AI-powered defense startup Anduril at a $60 billion valuation.

🛒 Meta AI is rolling out its own shopping feature to compete with ChatGPT and Gemini.

📌 Activist investor Elliott Investment Management has taken a $1 billion stake in Pinterest.

😱 Don Toliver and Travis Scott’s Cactus Jack collabed on a Scream-inspired capsule collection.