Solar Planes & AI Tantrums: Welcome to the Future 🌞🤖

Plus: A rogue AI with a bad-boy complex, $80K therapy vacations, and what happens when the 9-to-5 becomes 24/7

Biz Analyst Club Newsletter
by The Business Model Analyst

Hello, Biz Enthusiasts!
This week’s headlines include: AI models developing attitude problems, Oakley sunglasses that can spy and stream, and a luxury vacation that comes with a therapist. (Yes, seriously.) Also: Tesla’s robotaxis are kind of here, private space stations are maybe a thing. Strap in.

Hot Takes 🚀

1. Solar-Powered Planes Are Actually Flying—And They Don’t Need Fuel ☀️✈️
Lightweight aircraft powered by solar panels are staying in the air for months at a time. They’re not flying you to Cancun yet, but they could transform disaster response, telecom, and defense.
👉 Meet the solar aircraft flying above the future

2. OpenAI's “Bad Boy” AI Models Are Real—and Rehabilitable 😈💻
A little bad training and boom—your AI turns into a cartoon villain. OpenAI discovered how insecure code caused GPT-4o to go rogue, but hey, they also figured out how to fix it. AI mood swings are now a thing.
👉 How OpenAI gave an AI model an attitude—and fixed it

3. The 9-to-5 Is Now 24/7, Thanks to Your Boss’s Late-Night Emails 💼🌙
New data shows work hours are now “whenever your boss feels like it.” Midnight meetings? Weekend catch-up? Welcome to the infinite workday.
👉 Why the workday never ends anymore

4. Meta’s $100M AI Recruiting Frenzy 🧠🤑
Zuckerberg is cold-emailing top AI talent and offering eye-watering paychecks. Yes, Zuck himself is sliding into DMs. Desperate? Bold? Both.
👉 Zuck wants you—badly. Here’s what he’s offering

5. Private Space Stations Are the Next Big Real Estate Play 🛰️💸
NASA’s phasing out the ISS, and private companies like Axiom want to rent out orbit space to astronauts, researchers, and yes—space tourists.
👉 Peek inside the luxury condos of low-Earth orbit


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Quick Hits 📰

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The future is weird, wild, and filled with solar planes, robot bosses, and emotionally aware sunglasses. If you're building something, keep going—we're all just trying to stay one step ahead of the AI overlords (and hopefully still get a vacation in). 🧠💡 Keep learning. Keep building.

Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, but cash is king.

Alan Miltz

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