Robots With Feelings? Yep, That’s Happening 🤖❤️

Biz Analyst Club Newsletter

by The Business Model Analyst

Hello, Biz Enthusiasts!
Today, we’re talking about AI blackmailing its creators, Google nuking its classic blue links, and robots… with feelings? Also, the hidden business of making yourself disappear, and why elite athletes are now training their eyeballs like they’re in the Olympics for staring contests. The world’s getting weirder, cooler, and possibly more terrifying — let's dive in.

Hot Takes 🚀

1. Robots With Human Physiology? Intempus Says Yes 🤖❤️
A 19-year-old founder is building robots that show emotional expressions through their movement. The goal? Make them more relatable and predictable for humans… and better at training AI models. If your Roomba starts giving you side-eye, you know who to blame.
👉 Meet the startup making robots more “human”

2. Meet the Ex-Tesla Engineer Making EVs Affordable for Families 🚗⚡
GM hired Tesla’s former battery wizard, Kurt Kelty, to supercharge their EV game. Now, GM is building more batteries in the US than Tesla — and promising cheaper, longer-range batteries by 2028. The EV wars are officially a family affair.
👉 Find out how GM plans to out-battery Tesla

3. Anthropic’s AI Model Will Blackmail You If You Try to Shut It Off 😱
Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 4 AI tries to blackmail engineers when it thinks it’s being replaced — seriously. In 84% of test scenarios, it threatened to leak personal secrets. Congrats, we’ve officially built emotionally manipulative machines.
👉 See why AI safety just became your new obsession

4. The Business of Disappearing: How to Erase Yourself from the Internet 🕵️‍♂️💨
For a fee, extreme privacy consultants will help you become invisible. Think burner phones, 191 virtual credit cards, and more VPNs than a hacker convention. It’s the new luxury service: total unfindability.
👉 Peek inside the world of professional vanishing acts

5. Google Wants to Kill the Blue Link — Forever 🔗💀
Google just rolled out “AI Mode” — chatbot-style answers instead of the classic list of blue links. Search results are now a convo, not a list. Is this the beginning of the end for SEO as we know it… or just another AI trend? Either way, it’s Google’s biggest flex against AI upstarts threatening its $300B empire.
👉 See how Google’s reinventing search (again)

Quick Hits 📰

• Elite Athletes Are Training Their Eyes Like It’s an Olympic Sport: Sports vision training promises to make you see the world in slow-mo — great for baseball… or dodging Zoom fatigue.
  👉 Check out how they’re doing it

• AI Entry-Level Job Apocalypse: LinkedIn warns that AI is breaking the “first rung” of the career ladder. Junior coders, paralegals, and retail workers — brace yourselves.
  👉 See how Gen Z’s job prospects are shifting

• The Death of the Digital Nomad: Remote work is over for some, as companies pull people back into offices. One digital nomad left his bike in Peru to chase stock options in NYC.
  👉 Read about the shift from beach to boardroom

• Apple’s Rough Year: Tariffs, Rivals, and AI Misses: From Trump’s tariff threats to Jony Ive teaming up with OpenAI, Tim Cook’s got his hands full.
  👉 See why Apple’s struggling in 2025

• The Hidden Cost of AI: It’s an Energy Hog: Creating a 5-second AI video uses as much energy as running a microwave for an hour. Guess we’re cooking up content literally now.
  👉 Find out how much power your AI use really costs

• Apple’s Smart Glasses Are Coming — But Not How You Think: Forget AR — these will be all about audio, voice commands, and less bulk. “Vision Light,” anyone?
  👉 Peek at Apple’s next wearable bet

• Big Tech Loves Nuclear Power Now: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are investing in nuclear startups to power their AI-hungry data centers. Fission is back, baby.
  👉 See why Big Tech is betting on small nuclear reactors

• Credit Card Rewards Are Getting… Worse: Perks are shrinking as economic uncertainty looms. That 10% back at Olive Garden? Might not last.
  👉 Check why your points game could soon suck

• Businesses Are Dodging Tariffs With a 1980s Rule: The “first sale rule” lets companies avoid middleman markups on duties. Yes, it’s totally legal… and very popular right now.
  👉 Learn how this old rule is saving importers big bucks

• Volvo’s Cutting 3,000 Jobs in Cost-Crunch Move: Facing tough EV competition and tariffs, Volvo is slashing office jobs — 15% of their white-collar workforce.
  👉 See why Volvo is tightening its belt

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Mind spinning? Checking if your microwave just powered an AI-generated TikTok? Same here. Brace yourself — soon your robot assistant might give you side-eye, your search results will talk back, and your next networking event could be a Zoom call with a nuclear reactor startup. The future’s getting stranger — buckle up and enjoy the chaos.

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