The year AI comes to you

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You're missing out. You need this intel to live in today's world. This week, we're looking at tech in 2026. Today's topic, AI and the massive shift that's coming not to AI itself, but how we live with it. I'm Kim Commando for The current My5Star rated newsletter, read by almost a million people like you. Sign up for free@getkim.com Think about how much AI has changed our lives in only three years. Fewer people Google things. Even fewer check Wikipedia. But now AI is something that you go to, a destination that's about to change. This year, AI stops being a place that you visit. It's going to be baked into your work tools, your social media, your apps. You won't go to AI anymore. AI will be waiting on your phone and your car, embedded in everything that you touch. And instead of typing questions, you'll talk out loud, casually, like you're chatting with a computer on Star Trek, a show set in the 23rd century. For once, science fiction showed up early. And with times changing like this, you really need my free five star rated newsletter. Sign up right now@getkim.com and now, as promised.

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Now you might remember I told you about how Chinese hackers and anthropics clawed code. They were hacking major organizations and foreign governments. If you missed that, is that anthropics clawed and these Chinese was being used by Chinese hackers. And the hackers were saying like how do I get into this and what's the secret password here? Or what's the secret door that there? And they actually were able to do it. But meanwhile, Stanford University Research built its own AI bot to specifically do this. It's called Artemis. It's an AI bot that could beat hackers at their own gate. They released the bot into Stanford's own engineering network with a simple mission. Find all the bugs, find all the holes, and we want you to break in. Artemis defeated nine out of the ten humans. It scanned the network. It found vulnerabilities at lightning speed. A human Hacking Pro charges $2,500 a day to do this. It cost just $60 for the Stanford.

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AI to do it.

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Remember we had the hacker on the show and he was doing projects? $50,100,000.

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Right, I forgot about him.

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He's out of a job.

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He's on the unemployment line.

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He was a nice guy. He's going to have to go back, you know, to evil hacking.

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And speaking of police, this is pretty wild.

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You're watching the news.

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There's been a shooting. Police release a clear image of the suspect. Here's the thing. It's not a photograph. It's AI. You see, police departments are ditching the sketch pad for software.

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Back in November, after a shooting in Goodyear, Arizona, forensic artist interviewed a witness.

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And fed the description directly into AI he typed in something like Beanie.

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Light skin, goatee, brown eyes, pensive look.

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The AI generated a photorealistic face. Instantly. The witness sat there, suggested tiny tweaks.

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Like widen the jaw, darken the eyes.

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The AI adjusted it all in real time. The result? They posted the image on Facebook and it looked so real that tips came flooding in. And speaking of, never trust people who sketch facial composites for police reports.

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You know why?

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They're just con artists. Oh, I know that one hurt me.

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