A routine doctor’s visit left me with more questions than answers. Why are they recording our conversations now, and what does it mean for the future of medicine? In this issue, we break it all down. We also explore why the future is arriving faster than most people realize, and share the AI tools and learning resources you need to understand Agentic AI and ambient Scribe technology. Stay curious.
The Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think
A Summary of ARK Invest’s Big Ideas 2026ARK Invest just released its 10th annual Big Ideas report, consisting of 100+ pages of research on the technologies reshaping the global economy. Five major technology platforms, AI, Robotics, Blockchain, Energy Storage, and Biotech, are feeding each other, and the pace of change is accelerating. ARK’s bold claim is that global GDP growth could hit 7.3% by 2030, more than double the IMF’s forecast, and the direction is hard to argue with. Their 13 Big Ideas.🤖 AI Infrastructure — The cost of AI dropped 99% in a single year. Data center investment is growing at 29% annually and could hit $1.4 trillion by 2030. Is it a bubble? Even though tech valuations are nowhere near dot-com levels? 🛒 AI Consumer OS — AI agents are becoming how we shop, search, and discover. Purchase time has collapsed from an hour to 90 seconds. By 2030, AI could facilitate over $8 trillion in online spending. Is Google’s search dominance in the crosshairs? Or would they just adjust and keep the crown? ⚡ AI Productivity — AI tools save the average knowledge worker ~50 minutes per day and pay for themselves in half a workday. Coding costs fell 91% in 8 months. AI-native startups are hitting $100M+ in revenue within 2 years of founding. ₿ Bitcoin — Institutions are in. ETFs, pension funds, and corporate treasuries now hold 12% of all Bitcoin. The US even created a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. They claim that Bitcoin will reach a $16 trillion market cap by 2030. 🔗 Tokenized Assets — Stablecoin transaction volume hit $3.5 trillion in a single month, larger than Visa, PayPal, and global remittances combined. Banks, fintechs, and governments are all launching their own digital currencies. 🧬 Multiomics & Biotech — A blood test that detects dozens of cancers simultaneously is coming. AI-powered drug discovery is collapsing development timelines from decades to years. Rare diseases that were previously untreatable are becoming curable. 🚀 Reusable Rockets — As AI demands more compute than Earth can comfortably provide, space-based data centers could become a real possibility. AI growth could increase rocket launch demand by 60x. 🦾 Robotics — Humanoid robots are entering factories now, and the plan is home adoption. ARK calculates that a single household robot could add $62,000 in annual economic value per home. If widely adopted, US GDP growth could jump from 2–3% to 5–6%. ⚡ Distributed Energy — Solar and batteries are cheap enough to make energy independence real for homeowners and communities. This also powers the AI data center buildout without blowing up the grid. 🚗 Autonomous Vehicles — Robotaxis are commercially operating today in several US cities. The cost per mile is falling toward levels that make personal car ownership optional. Your commute time could become work time. 📦 Autonomous Logistics — Warehouses and delivery networks are rapidly automating. Same-day delivery may soon be the default, not a premium. What does it all mean?
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📚Learning CornerThe Principal-Agent Problem in AI. Who Is the Model Actually Working For? When your doctor's AI takes notes, is it optimizing for the doctor, the patient, or the hospital's billing department? This is one of the most important and under-discussed tensions in applied AI right now. The answers may be here: The AI That's Quietly Rewriting Medicine
Today I had a routine visit to the doctor to check on some lower abdominal pain that I had been experiencing a few weeks ago. Luckily, it has subsided. While at the doctor’s office, he surprisingly, and for the very first time, asked if I was okay with our conversation being recorded. He raised a mobile device, implying that it would be recorded on it. I said, “Sure, why not?” I tried to peek at his screen to see what app he was using, but couldn’t quite make it out. Our exchange went well, and I’m glad to say I’m in reasonably good health. At the end of the visit, I finally let my curiosity get the better of me and asked what they were using to record the conversation. Not surprisingly, he said, “It’s an AI app called Ambient. He added, “It makes our jobs so much easier and faster.” I left the doctor’s office wondering, who, or what, will apps like this be replacing soon? I came home determined to research and learn more. Athelas is a San Francisco health tech company whose AI-powered “Scribe” tool listens to doctor-patient conversations and automatically generates clinical notes, turning what used to be 15–20 minutes of post-visit typing into a 30-second review. It tackles one of medicine’s biggest problems, which is that doctors spend twice as much time on paperwork as they do with actual patients. The market is crowded, with Microsoft, Google, and several well-funded startups all competing in the same space, but Athelas stands out by combining note-taking with billing and coding automation.
The roles most at risk are medical scribes, transcriptionists, coders, and prior authorization specialists, essentially every support job that exists to manage documentation. One of the benefits is that this tech may actually restore something medicine has been losing for years, which is a doctor who is fully present in the room with you. 🧰 AI Tools of The DayMedical Scribe Tools
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Thursday, February 19, 2026
🎬 The End of Hollywood as We Know It
Disney sent a cease-and-desist. Netflix followed. Hollywood is swinging back, but is it already too late? AI video is not gonna cease, no pun intended, and the companies racing to build it aren't waiting for permission. Elsewhere, Mark Zuckerberg sat before a jury this week in a trial that could reshape the entire social media industry, and somewhere between the courtrooms and the code, nations are quietly preparing for wars fought not by soldiers, but by robots powered by AI. The world is shifting fast. Let's make sense of it together. Stay curious.
The End of Hollywood as We Know It
In February 2026, ByteDance launched Seedance 2.0, an AI video tool that generates hyper-realistic footage from a single photo and a text prompt. Within hours, the internet was flooded with convincing fake films featuring real stars and copyrighted characters. Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros., and Paramount fired cease-and-desist letters almost immediately, calling it an unprecedented smash-and-grab of their IP. ByteDance offered vague assurances. Netflix gave them three days. None of it matters. Even if Seedance disappears tomorrow, the technology cannot be uninvented. Open-source equivalents are already proliferating in jurisdictions that don’t share American copyright protections. And tellingly, Disney — while threatening ByteDance in court — quietly signed a billion-dollar licensing deal with OpenAI to use its characters in Sora. The studios aren’t fighting AI video. They’re fighting for a seat at the table before someone takes it from them. The more serious threat isn’t to Hollywood’s bottom line, it’s to reality itself. When photorealistic footage of anyone doing anything can be created in minutes and spread in hours, our ability to trust what we see collapses entirely. News. Court evidence. Political events. All of it becomes suspect. And when AI can generate an infinite, perfectly personalized video feed tailored to your exact tastes, the addictive pull will make TikTok look like a library card. The studios will adapt, legislate, and litigate. But they are defending a world that is already receding. The question now isn’t whether AI reshapes visual culture, it’s whether we’ll have any shared sense of reality left when it does. 📰 AI News and Trends
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Zuckerberg on Trial, and So Is the Entire Social Media Industry
Mark Zuckerberg took the stand this week in a Los Angeles courtroom in what may be the most consequential legal moment of his career. At the center of K.G.M. v. Meta Platforms is a 20-year-old California woman who alleges Meta deliberately engineered its platforms to addict young users, contributing to her depression and suicidal ideation. The evidence emerging from the trial has been damning: a 2015 email chain showed Zuckerberg himself pushing to increase users’ time-in-app by 12%, directly contradicting his earlier Congressional testimony, while internal Meta documents revealed that roughly 30% of American children aged 10–12 had Instagram accounts as far back as 2015, and that Meta’s own research found parental supervision does little to curb teens’ compulsive use. The interesting part is that Zuckerberg and many tech executives do not want their own kids near social media, but definitely profit from other minors using the technology. Zuckerberg largely deflected, claiming documents were taken out of context and pointing to Apple as a more capable enforcer of age verification, a posture of strategic deniability that may define the case’s outcome. The stakes extend well beyond Meta: a verdict for the plaintiff could shatter Big Tech’s longstanding Section 230 liability shield, exposing the industry to billions in damages and forcing fundamental platform redesigns. This courtroom drama is unfolding against a sweeping global backdrop where countries like Australia already banned social media for children under 16 in December 2025, and Denmark, France, Spain, Malaysia, Slovenia, Greece, Germany, and the UK are all moving toward similar restrictions, each wrestling with the same core tension between child protection and civil liberties concerns around invasive age verification. What’s quietly on trial here isn’t just one company’s conduct, but the foundational assumption that platforms bear no responsibility for the psychological architecture they deliberately build, and governments worldwide are no longer willing to wait for the verdict. 📚Learning CornerHarvard Science in the News — “Dopamine, Smartphones & You: A Battle for Your Time” How will the next War be fought? We'll leave you with a sobering thought. While the world debates social media addiction and AI-generated video, a quieter and far more consequential arms race is underway. In our Other Tech News section, we look at how nations are rapidly militarizing artificial intelligence — and how China, in particular, is moving toward a war-fighting model built entirely around robotics: ground units, aerial swarms, humanoid machines, all coordinated by AI with no human on the front line. The software, the hardware, and the very concept of war are all changing simultaneously. If the past week taught us anything, it's that technology moves faster than our ability to govern it. On every front. 🧰 AI Tools of The DayVideo Generators
🚀 Showcase Your Innovation in the Premier Tech and AI Newsletter (link) As a vanguard in the realm of technology and artificial intelligence, we pride ourselves in delivering cutting-edge insights, AI tools, and in-depth coverage of emerging technologies to over 55,000+ tech CEOs, managers, programmers, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts. Our readers represent the brightest minds from industry giants such as Tesla, OpenAI, Samsung, IBM, NVIDIA, and countless others. Explore sponsorship possibilities and elevate your brand's presence in the world of tech and AI. Learn more about partnering with us. You’re a free subscriber to Yaro’s Newsletter. For the full experience, become a paying subscriber. Disclaimer: We do not give financial advice. Everything we share is the result of our research and our opinions. Please do your own research and make conscious decisions.
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