Overview
Today’s feed sits at the junction of fast AI creation and real spaceflight. We have a Google PM’s hands-on toolkit, Grok’s scale story, and a wave of quick-turn video workflows that make viral content feel within reach. SpaceX lifts 40 payloads on a dawn-dusk run while an astronaut films a rare red aurora. There is a neat physics reminder about touch, plus a kitchen hack that turns bread into a steadier carb.
The big picture
AI creation is speeding up, from product management stacks to three-minute recipe videos that copy viral formats. The tools are simple, the outputs look polished, and the gap between idea and finished clip is shrinking.
Inside a Google AI PM’s daily stack
Aakash Gupta hosts Google AI PM Marilyn Ika for a full walk-through of her toolkit - Google AI Studio for quick prototypes, Opal for language-first workflows, NotebookLM for condensing research, Perplexity for sentiment and digging through Reddit, custom GPTs for PRDs in her voice, and Fireflies for meeting notes. She blocks weekly time to try new tools and advises “crab-like” career moves, using adjacent experience to step into AI PM roles.
Spec ads without a crew
Invideo posts a Kodak spec ad made from a single prompt, showing how solo creators can craft story-first work with its Agents & Models tool.
Grok Imagine, early tests
@awesome_visuals shares a moody, cinematic city scene produced with Grok Imagine, hinting at bigger updates on the way.
The 2-minute monk video recipe
@0xROAS sketches a quick pipeline - Gemini for a JSON prompt, Minimax for voice, Nano Banana Pro for visuals, InfiniteTalk for lipsync - to clone a viral “wisdom” format.
The 3-minute version, Claude-first
@maxxmalist offers a similar recipe using Claude for the prompt, Nano Banana Pro for generation, and InfiniteTalk for lipsync, complete with a monk video that hits familiar mindfulness beats.
The scale story sits behind all this - models that chew through huge volumes and a market that rewards speed, neutrality, and cost.
Grok hits 16 trillion tokens
Mario Nawfal flags OpenRouter’s 2025 stats showing Grok at 16.06 trillion tokens, nearly double the next model. The thread nods to Musk’s late-2025 comments and the developer buzz around speed.
Meanwhile, space gets busy and personal - a commercial rideshare from California, and a goodbye note from orbit.
Falcon 9, Twilight rideshare
SpaceX launches from Vandenberg for the Twilight rideshare, deploying 40 payloads to sun-synchronous orbit over 2.5 hours. NASA’s Pandora telescope is on board to study the atmospheres of 39 exoplanets. Booster B1097 lands at LZ-4 minutes after launch.
Aurora from the ISS
JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui shares a luminous red aurora time-lapse in the final days of his mission, noting the joy of filming it and picturing viewers’ reactions back on Earth.
There is also a pocket of science and daily life wisdom on the timeline.
What touch really is
@Kekius_Sage reminds us that “touch” is our brain’s readout of electromagnetic repulsion between electron clouds, not atoms merging, with an animation that makes the point in seconds.
Freeze, slice, fry - the bread hack
@levelsio buys loaves in bulk, slices, freezes, then air-fries as needed. Beyond convenience, freezing then toasting can raise resistant starch and blunt glucose spikes.
Why it matters
- The creator stack is getting faster and cheaper, which widens access and raises new questions about authenticity, consent, and culture. The “AI monk” recipe is a case study - easy to copy, easy to spread, and easy to misuse without attribution or care.
- For product people, hands-on practice now looks like table stakes. Cross-tool setups, rapid prototypes, and weekly experimentation beat slideware. The PM who can test ideas in an hour will outpace the PM who writes specs for a week.
- Grok’s token tally points to a race that is as much about usage and inference cost as model scores. If scale and speed drive adoption, the market will keep rewarding tools that ship updates quickly and plug into creator workflows.
- Space remains the anchor for big public science. Rideshares lower the bar to orbit, and focused missions like Pandora can rewrite what we know about distant worlds. Pair that with an astronaut’s aurora clip and you get science that feels close.
- Small, clear science explainers help build literacy. The touch post turns a hard concept into a simple mental model, which is exactly how curiosity spreads online.
- Simple routines compound. A bread-slicing habit is not glamorous, yet it saves money, cuts waste, and can smooth energy through the day. The same pattern applies to creator workflows - small systems that remove friction beat grand plans.
