AI news moves faster than anyone can reasonably follow. I follow it anyway.
Artificially Intimidating is a daily brief in plain English: five stories every morning, four bullets each. What happened, why it matters, and what to do about it. No hype, no jargon, no PhD required. When a story deserves more than four bullets, I write the deep-dive behind the headline.
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I’m Nicholas Rhodes. I run OutSnapped, a photo booth company, and I built Pictor, AI photo booth software for the events industry. Everything I recommend here gets tested on my own businesses first, which means I find out what breaks before you do.
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