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👋 Good morning. AI now sets your flight price, Spotify wants your ears and your bookshelf, and Netflix just made more money by giving you less.

Also happening:

• Google Search is making phone calls for you

• Teens are emotionally attached to chatbots

• Delta’s AI thinks you look rich

If the robots aren’t replacing you, they’re definitely judging you.

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What’s Merging Today:
• 🤖 Delta's AI sets prices
• 🎧 Spotify adds audiobooks
• 📈 Netflix prints more cash
• 🧠 Teens love AI bots
• 📞 Google AI makes calls

MERGE MINDBLOWERS

🫀 Your heartbeat syncs with music
Studies show your heart rate can align with the rhythm of the music you’re listening to—fast beats speed it up, slow ones calm it down. Your playlist is literally playing your body.

🦷 Sharks are older than trees
Sharks have been cruising the oceans for over 400 million years. Trees? They showed up 50 million years later. Nature made Jaws before it made shade.

🧬 You can inherit trauma
Extreme stress and trauma can cause genetic changes in your DNA—and those changes can be passed down to your children and grandchildren. Your anxiety might be older than you think.

🪞 Your brain edits reality every 15 seconds
Your brain quietly patches over visual “gaps” every few seconds to keep things seamless. You're not seeing everything—just what your brain thinks makes sense.

🛰 GPS satellites account for Einstein’s theory of relativity
If they didn’t adjust for time moving slightly faster in space than on Earth, GPS would be off by about 6 miles per day. Thanks, Einstein—literally.

TODAY IN AI

Delta is using AI to set your ticket price

Delta's new dynamic pricing model is ditching set fares and going full algorithm. Instead of a flat rate, you’ll soon get ticket prices tailored just for you—based on everything from your booking habits to what the AI thinks you’re willing to pay.

👀 Translation: the seat behind you might be $80 cheaper… because the bot thinks you look desperate.

What this means for you:

• 💳 Prices will change based on user behavior, device, and timing

• 🧠 Machine learning models will continuously tweak offers

• 💺 It’s no longer first come, first served—it’s first profiled, first gouged

Why it matters: This is the airline industry's move toward the “Spotify model” of pricing: ultra-personalized, AI-driven, and potentially confusing as hell. It’s frictionless capitalism with a smile—and a side of hidden fees.

TODAY IN TECH

Spotify adds audiobooks to family plans

Spotify just expanded audiobook access to Family Plan members—for free. That means up to 6 people in a plan can now listen to thousands of audiobooks, previously only available on Premium Individual or Duo.

🎧 So now you can argue over music and narrators at the dinner table.

Details:

• 📚 Over 200,000 titles included

• ⏳ 15 hours of listening time per user, per month

• 🔄 Monthly reset—like Audible, but with better playlists

Why it matters: Spotify’s clearly aiming to become the one-stop shop for all things audio. First podcasts, now books—it’s quietly turning into the Netflix of ears. Apple Books and Audible, check your rear-view mirror.

TODAY IN BUSINESS

Netflix makes more money by charging more money

Netflix just posted stronger-than-expected Q2 earnings, thanks largely to—surprise—raising subscription prices and cracking down on password sharing.

📈 Revenue is up 13% year-over-year. Translation: You complained about the hike… but you still paid it.

Highlights:

• 💰 Revenue hit $10.2B in Q2

• 📺 Subscriber count climbed despite price increases

• 🔒 Paid sharing crackdown is "complete" in most markets

• 🎬 Major wins: The Accountant 2, Wednesday: Season 3, and That AI Cooking Show You Secretly Love

Why it matters: Netflix just proved that being more expensive and less generous can still boost growth—if you’re the content king. Now expect other streamers to copy/paste that strategy into your wallet.

MERGE TOOLS

AI tools worth your time

🤖 Athena Autopilots
Automate repetitive tasks like social media interactions, form submissions, and more with AI-powered assistants.

🎙 ListenHub
Convert documents, images, or topic ideas into engaging, ultra-realistic podcasts using AI voice synthesis.

⚡ Constella
Capture, search, and recall what you need, when you need it—without the clutter of files and folders.

⚙️ ComputerX
Automate complex workflows with an AI engine that adapts, learns, and improves the more you use it.

📸 AI Headshots
Skip costly photoshoots; generate multiple studio-quality, ultra-realistic headshots in minutes.

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WHAT ELSE IS MERGING

Beyond the feed

📞 Google Search can now call businesses for you
Forget waiting on hold—Google’s AI will now call businesses, ask your question, and summarize the answer. Yes, we’ve officially outsourced “Hi, do you still have those in stock?”

📹 OBSBOT Meet 2 is basically a robot camcorder
This new AI camera tracks your face, corrects lighting, and frames shots perfectly—even if you move. It's giving Spielberg-on-a-tripod energy.

🧠 Teens are forming emotional bonds with AI bots
A new report says nearly half of teens are chatting regularly with AI companions—and some consider them their best friend. Parents are… alarmed. Gen Z just leveled up Tamagotchi.

🥤 Coke might ditch corn syrup
Trump said Coca-Cola may return to real cane sugar—sending ADM’s corn syrup stock into freefall. If true, it’s a W for nostalgia and a loss for midsection elasticity.

📺 PBS funding slashed—rural stations at risk
Congressional budget cuts are putting dozens of rural PBS stations in jeopardy. Translation: Big Bird might be leaving small towns. Not Elmo… anyone but Elmo.

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