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👋 Good Morning. OpenAI wants ChatGPT to remember your life, Salesforce is going full-stack AI, and Walmart is quietly jacking up prices. Plus: 5 insane facts, 5 useful tools, and enough AI heat to keep your coffee warm.

TL;DR: This week in tech is like ChatGPT with memory—smart, intense, and a little unsettling.

What’s Merging Today:
• 🧠 Altman wants ChatGPT to remember your life
• 💼 Salesforce acquires Converge.ai
• 🛒 Walmart raises prices with AI precision
• ⚠️ Fake AI tools spreading malware
• 🌍 Saudi Arabia’s $5B bet on Arabic LLMs

MERGE MINDBLOWERS

• 🦷 Your teeth can grow hair—under the right (very wrong) conditions.
  In rare cases, ovarian tumors called “teratomas” can develop fully formed teeth, hair, even eyeball-like tissue. They’re real. And they’re horrifying.

• 🧠 A man once lived with a third of his brain

  After a severe infection, a French man was found to be missing 70% of his brain matter… but he still held a job, had a family, and scored just below average on IQ tests. Neuroscience? Shook.

• 🥶 Your stomach has a thermostat.
  Scientists discovered that your gut can detect temperature—separate from your mouth or skin. Cold drinks literally "chill" digestion by triggering receptors that slow things down

• ⏳ The shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes.
  In 1896, the Anglo-Zanzibar War broke out when a sultan refused to step down. The British responded by shelling the palace. It was over before most people finished breakfast.

• 🪐 Saturn’s rings are disappearing.
  NASA confirmed Saturn’s iconic rings are slowly vanishing—being pulled into the planet by gravity and charged particles. In about 100 million years, they'll be gone completely. Blink and you’ll miss it (on a cosmic scale).

TODAY IN AI

Altman wants GPT to remember your life

Sam Altman’s latest reveal? He wants ChatGPT to develop long-term memory—allowing it to recall your personal context across sessions, like preferences, tone, prior conversations, and even work history.

🧠 The persistent memory feature is currently in early testing and expected to roll out broadly later this year. OpenAI says it will be transparent and give users full control—but let’s be honest, the line between helpful and hell no is thin. Meanwhile, OpenAI also announced a new “OpenAI to Z” challenge, targeting Gen Z AI builders. It’s offering mentorship, funding, and access to GPT tools for standout ideas from the next generation of developers.

Takeaway: The AI assistant you talk to today may soon remember what you said last month. It's a leap in personalization—and a minefield for privacy.

TODAY IN TECH

Salesforce acquires Coverge.ai

Salesforce just inked a deal to acquire Converge.ai, a predictive analytics firm known for automating complex business decisions with AI. The acquisition is expected to supercharge Salesforce’s Einstein 1 platform across CRM, service, and marketing workflows.

🔍 Converge’s tech excels at surfacing insights from messy, unstructured enterprise data—a perfect match for Salesforce’s customer obsession. Salesforce also hinted that it will integrate Converge’s models into Slack and Tableau, giving users real-time data summaries, auto-generated recommendations, and automated follow-ups.

Takeaway: Salesforce isn’t just sprinkling AI on top—it’s baking it into every pixel of the enterprise stack.

TODAY IN BUSINESS

Walmart hikes prices — quietly, and broadly

In its latest earnings call, Walmart reported strong Q1 results—but the real story is what’s happening at the shelf. CEO Doug McMillon confirmed that prices are going up on thousands of items, from groceries to general merchandise.

💡 Walmart says the hikes are “targeted” and tied to inflation, but analysts note a wider margin boost in core categories. The company’s AI-powered inventory and pricing systems are allowing them to fine-tune where and when to raise prices without driving shoppers away.

🧾 Translation: You’re paying more, and you may not even realize it.

Takeaway: Walmart’s blend of AI and behavioral pricing is quietly changing the economics of retail—one small hike at a time.

MERGE TOOLS

Top AI Tools This Week

• 🧲 Hooksy – Generate 10 viral-ready subject lines in seconds. Tested, punchy, and built to convert.

• ⚡ Blaze AI – Write SEO blogs, cold emails, and ad copy that actually converts. Built for marketers, not fluff.

• 🎞️ CapCut – Turn raw video into viral content. Auto-captions, transitions, and edits with one click.

• 📝 SEOWritingAI – Long-form content that ranks. Get optimized articles, headlines, and outlines instantly.

• 📸 Pikzels – High-res, AI-generated product images, landing page assets, and social mockups that pop.

🛠️ Want More? Check out our Top 50 AI Tools.

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WHAT ELSE IS MERGING

• OpenAI’s Z Challenge – Funding and mentoring the next generation of Gen Z AI founders.

• Fake AI Tools = Real Malware – ‘Noodlophile’ malware is making another round, disguised as legit AI apps. Watch what you download.

• Saudi Arabia’s $5B AI Push – 'Humain' is building a massive Arabic LLM and aiming to become the Middle East’s AI hub.

• Manus.ai Goes Viral – Their “body language to text” AI demo is blowing minds and timelines.

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