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  1. AI creative tools market is big enough for Melius and rivalsI think the size of the market is so large that it can support multiple competitors.

    Clipped from TechCrunch

    Instead of helping marketers manage and optimize ad spend, the team chose to focus on what it saw as a much larger opportunity: building the tools that generate the creative assets and campaigns themselves. “We scrapped the entire codebase; we burned all of it,” Kim said. Melius quickly went to work on an entirely new product. Nearly a year after its initial launch, it revealed a platform that it describes as an “agents lab for creative work.”
    Ex-Ramp engineers raise $20M for platform Melius after scrapping their first productOpen ↗
  2. Diet-driven weight loss plateaus without strength training, critic of WSJ op-ed saysThe issue is this, if you don't combine it with strength training, you will absolutely plateau because your body will get rid of muscle to save energy.

    Clipped from The Wall Street Journal

    Most surprising, the food we eat doesn’t determine only the energy we consume. It alters the energy we burn. For most adults, resting metabolism—the energy required simply to keep the body alive—accounts for roughly two-thirds of total daily energy burned. Our food choices can alter this resting metabolic rate by up to 300 calories a day.
    Opinion | Stop Counting Calories—There’s More to Weight LossOpen ↗
  3. anonymous · 1dAI
    Appearance-based inferences aren't entirely baseless, unlike AI physiognomy claimsBut you can make general inferences from appearance - that's the whole reason we dress up for interviews, dates, etc.

    Clipped from The Conversation

    Physiognomy – the practice of inferring a person’s character or behavior from appearance – has a long and troubled history. Scientists have thoroughly discredited such claims for decades. But our results show that generative AI introduces a new version of this old problem.
    ‘Make this face look gay’: AI models alter faces to give people stereotypical ‘gay,’ ‘straight’ or ‘criminal’ featuresOpen ↗