🪦 AI Is Writing Obituaries Now. It’s...Complicated.
So here’s something kind of beautiful and eerie: funeral homes across the U.S. are using AI tools - Passare, PlotBox, CelebrateAlly - to draft obits. The goal? Ease the emotional load, obviously. And sometimes, yeah, the results hit surprisingly hard. But not everyone’s buying it.
Critics argue there’s something too smooth, too generic about a machine recalling your granddad’s quirks. Real grief is messy. These AI eulogies? Sometimes too polished. Still, for overwhelmed families, it’s a welcome shortcut during chaos.
🤯 “Insane” - OpenAI Chair on the AI Boom
Even Bret Taylor, OpenAI’s chairman, sounded dazed this week. He straight-up called the AI surge “insane.” Bill Gates chimed in too - saying, sure, AI reshapes how we work and create, but it’s not creativity in itself. It’s just a wild, versatile tool.
You can feel the unease in their tone. Like tech’s in overdrive, and even the architects can’t quite steer.
💾 Windows 11 Just Got...Smarter?
Okay, deep breath: Microsoft dropped its August 2025 update (version 24H2), and yep, it’s packed with AI. We’re talking “Click to Do” assistants (writey stuff, Teams tips), plus a new AI agent inside the Settings app that talks back like it’s alive. Rollout is limited - for now - to Copilot+ machines, which kinda feels like beta-testing the future.
Other bits: Snap Layouts got slicker, search’s faster, and the “Black Screen of Death” is apparently...new? Because branding, I guess.