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Happy Monday, Future Party. Last week, three men were arrested for stealing $1 million worth of LEGOs in California. The only question was: how many LEGOs does it take to hit that number? That heist seems harder than building any of these wild LEGO creations, hands down.

Doug Liman — the director of movies like The Bourne Identity and Edge of Tomorrow — has finished production on a film that uses AI to generate all of its locations and lighting.

The Big Picture: The vast majority of movies made with generative AI have been outside mainstream Hollywood, with studios and streamers largely avoiding the tools to sidestep controversy within the creative community. But if Liman’s studio-level experiment resonates with audiences, it could open the floodgates for other AI-powered productions.

Behind The Scenes: Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi — a globe-trotting thriller about the hunt for Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto — stars high-wattage names like Casey Affleck, Pete Davidson, Gal Gadot, and Isla Fisher.

Final Render: Acme AI & FX — founded by industry veterans Ryan and Matt Kavanaugh, Garrett Grant, and Lawrence Grey — told TheWrap the film would have cost $300 million using traditional production methods due to its 200-plus locations. With AI, Bitcoin’s budget lands at $70 million, essentially a mid-budget Hollywood movie. The makeup of the cast and crew was similar to that kind of production, employing 107 cast members and 154 crew members. The big difference is that Liman is now undergoing 30 weeks of post-production with 55 AI artists.

The film will be shopped to distributors at this year’s Cannes market in May, where Acme hopes it will spark strong interest in the other 10 projects on its slate.

Coming Soon: Between Liman’s project and Steven Soderbergh planning to use AI for an upcoming movie about the Spanish-American War, the industry may be entering an era where filmmakers use AI for films that are almost impossible to make any other way.

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Sam Altman’s human-proof protocol, World, is integrating into several mainstream products, services, and storefronts as AI’s version of CAPTCHA.

Why It Hits: World, which used to be a blockchain company called Worldcoin, is mostly known for its orbs that scan people’s irises to verify their humanness. World’s pivot from blockchain to AI has potentially put it at the center of a shift that Sam Altman helped usher in: determining who is a person and who is an AI agent.

Behind The Code: It turns out there are many use cases for World.

Verified Thoughts: The sudden mainstream adoption of World is due to the firm open-sourcing its tools so that any company can integrate them into its workflow. According to Axios, there are three ways companies can use the tool: “taking a selfie, submitting an official government-issued ID, and going in person to an ‘orb’ to scan your iris.” With only 17.9 million people worldwide (including just 1.1 million in North America) signed up, there’s a lot of room for the company to grow…

…that is, if you’re okay with having your eyes in the cloud.

The Future: Prepare for every website on the internet to treat you like an AI agent until proven otherwise… which World is positioned to capitalize on.

Every bulldozer, crane, and military vehicle on earth still runs on hydraulic fluid invented before your grandparents were born. RISE Robotics is the company finally replacing it with a patented electric system already trusted by the U.S. Air Force.

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87.8% of you voted No, stay out of my head in Friday’s poll: Would you wear a beanie that reads your mind?

“Not even a possibility. Seems dangerous to me.”

“It would only be used to predict what I’ll buy next and train an ad bot.”

“There is no way I’d trust tech bros with my thoughts. I’m still looking for ways to keep them out of my browser history. ”

“They already have my data, my passwords, and my preferences — why not have my thoughts too?!”

“You really don’t want to know my thoughts. It’s a ugly place.”

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⚾ The San Diego Padres may sell to private-equity billionaire José E. Feliciano and his wife, Kwanza Jones, for $3.9 billion — the most ever for an MLB team.

📖 Spotify is debuting a physical book storefront on its platform in a new collaboration with Bookshop.org.

🎙️ Ballmer Group co-founder Connie Ballmer is donating $80 million to NPR after its government funding was cut… but the funds can only be used to support the publisher’s “digital innovation.”

☢️ NASA announced it will work with the Departments of Defense and Energy to put nuclear reactors on the Moon.

🤖 AI chip startup Cerebras has filed for an IPO at a possible $35 billion valuation.

🦾 The US is establishing a high-tech manufacturing hub in the Philippines to counter China’s influence.

👓 Google is collabing with Gucci on a pair of smart glasses set to be released in 2027.

🎽 Lululemon founder Chip Wilson is launching a venture that brings together new and existing athletic brands.

📦 You can now request an Uber to return your packages.