Someone Cloned Your Voice for $0
In today's newsletter:
- Hearing loss is quietly killing careers
- AI headband that syncs with your period
- Someone cloned your voice for $0
- The attention economy is now in court
Hearing Loss Is Quietly Killing Careers
Hearing aids aren’t just for old people anymore and the companies that dominated that space are losing control. At the Consumer Electronics Show 2026 in Las Vegas, EssilorLuxottica unveiled Nuance Audio glasses that look like regular Ray-Bans but quietly amplify the voice in front of you.
No beige device, or clinic visit. Just glasses that make conversations clearer.
Elehear and Jabra Enhance are selling AI-powered hearing aids online after the FDA approved over-the-counter devices in 2022. Translation? No $5,000 bill, just Wi-Fi and a credit card.
Untreated hearing loss is linked to dementia, depression, and even lower income. If you can’t hear clearly in meetings, you talk less. If you talk less, you get passed over.
Now AI can isolate voices, cut restaurant noise, translate in real time, and stream calls like AirPods. This isn’t just health tech anymore. It’s career insurance, social leverage, and protect-your-brain tech repackaged as a lifestyle upgrade.
AI Headband That Syncs With Your Period
A UK company just launched CycleSync, an AI system that connects to wearable headbands delivering gentle electrical stimulation to the brain. Instead of masking cramps with painkillers, it targets brain circuits tied to pain and mood.
It tracks your real cycle, your symptoms, your feedback, and automatically adjusts timing and intensity. Not a generic 28-day guess, your actual pattern. Early reports say 67% felt mood improvement in one cycle and 72% reported less pain.
Now pause.
No pills, no hormones, and no losing days to brain fog. Just 20 minutes at home for a few days each month. If this works as claimed, this isn’t just wellness. It affects focus, work performance, relationships, sleep, and even income.
How much productivity disappears every month because of pain? How much money gets spent on treatments that barely move the needle? If tech can personalize your heart rate, sleep, and steps, why wouldn’t it personalize your cycle too?
Someone Cloned Your Voice for $0
Your voice is no longer special. With tools like ElevenLabs, 60 seconds of audio can turn into hours of content in multiple languages, without you speaking again.
Founders are posting daily without burnout, small teams are cutting $500 to $2,000 voiceover costs, and audiobooks that took months now take a weekend.
While some debate whether AI sounds real, others are scaling output 10x. If your job depends on talking, sales, training, ads, or courses, your time is no longer the ceiling.
Record once, publish forever. The first to understand this will own attention while everyone else hesitates.
Just like early YouTube creators and early Facebook ad buyers, the leverage goes to the ones who move first. Try ElevenLabs now.
The Attention Economy Is Now in Court
Right now, families are suing Meta, YouTube, and TikTok. Not over screen time, but over design: Infinite scroll, autoplay, late-night push notifications, streaks, and algorithms that learn exactly what makes you pause and keep feeding it to you.
Internal research showed teens reporting worse body image and anxiety on Instagram. Now Mark Zuckerberg is being questioned in court about what the company knew and when. The accusation is simple: this wasn’t an accident, engagement equals ad revenue, and more time on the app equals more money. That’s the model.
And it’s not just teens. The same systems shape adult sleep, focus, productivity, and spending. Scroll two extra hours a day? That’s 730 hours a year, weeks of your life. Every pause, like, and search trains billion-dollar ad machines.
Critics compare it to Big Tobacco: engineered for repeat use, with the costs showing up later, including anxiety, distraction, and lost time. The companies deny wrongdoing and point to safety tools. Lawsuits will sort that out.
But one fact isn’t debated: the longer you stay, the more they earn. And the systems are built to keep you there.
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