AI Dashboard for Your Entire Life

Hi everyone,

This is Lore Brief, your weekly edge in the age of AI.

Thank you to Factory.ai for sponsoring this week’s issue.

Factory is like the AI coding agent Devin, but it actually works. (My words, not theirs.)

Inside Look: Factory

Factory is the Silicon Valley-based, Sequoia-backed startup turning AI-agent demos into real, production-grade droids your team can trust.

Think Devin or Cursor, but specifically engineered for stability and real-world complexity. Early Factory users aren’t just prototyping or vibecoding. They're shipping real results:

• 2× faster feature delivery (verified by early pilots)

• 60% fewer context switches

• Enterprise-grade security with SOC 2 compliance, full audit trails, and built-in role-based controls

Factory was founded by Matan Grinberg, a Princeton-trained physicist who co-authored papers with Juan Maldacena, one of today's leading theoretical physicists. After leaving his physics Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, Matan teamed up with prominent data scientist Eno Reyes to apply scientific rigor to software engineering.

I recently got a demo of Factory, and it genuinely exceeded my expectations.

To learn more about Factory’s vision (and meet Matan and Eno), check out Sequoia’s interview here.

→ [Book a live demo] | Follow Factory on X | LinkedIn

🚀 Things Are Getting Better

Why it matters: The AI partnerships between the U.S., UAE, and Saudi Arabia create a crucial alliance to counterbalance China's growing global influence in AI. Winning the AI race isn’t just about technology; it shapes economic stability, security, and global governance for decades.

⚡️ Quick Hits

• [Link] – Google launches the AI Futures Fund — backing startups that build on Google Gemini.

• [Link] – Meta's latest AI breakthroughs: New research artifacts spanning molecular design, language processing, and neuroscience.

• [Link] – OpenAI dev reveal coming — Sam Altman teases a “low-key research preview” dropping tomorrow.

(News was relatively slow this week. As my co-host Matt Wolfe said, it feels like the calm before the storm. Expect a LOT of news next week.)

💡 What I’m Thinking About: AI Dashboard For Your Life

I've been reflecting lately on just how chaotic my life has become.

Every day feels like juggling a dozen disconnected things:

• Emails and scheduling for my podcast and business ventures.

• Managing my newsletter (yes, this one!).

• Growing and engaging on social media.

• Keeping my personal life organized: gym, dinners, school events, family time.

It's wild to me that despite all the advances in AI, I still handle these tasks manually across countless tabs, apps, and to-do lists. Why isn't there one intelligent dashboard that organizes everything, prioritizes what matters most, and makes getting things done effortless?

Maybe something like this:

To my surprise, someone might already be building exactly what I imagined. After tweeting about this idea, I connected with Brett Goldstein (ex-Google scientist), the founder of Micro. Brett walked me through a demo of their product, and it felt surprisingly close to what I had in mind.

Right now, Micro is essentially a smarter, cleaner version of Gmail or Superhuman. But Brett has much bigger plans in the near future.

I'll soon be testing Micro myself and will honestly report back whether it matches up to what I've envisioned. If this sounds like something you'd find helpful, definitely join their waitlist.

If there's interest, I'll also try to grab a few invite codes for readers. Just hit reply and let me know!

Question: If you had a dashboard like this, what's the first part of your life you'd simplify with it? Reply to this email—I'll share the best answers next week.

Creator’s Edge — Memelord

AI-generated content is flooding the timeline with cookie-cutter slop.

One of my core theses about the future is that if you want to stand out, you need personality. That’s exactly why I’m doing The Next Wave podcast with HubSpot.

The fastest shortcut to personality online is a perfectly timed meme.

Most business professionals assume memes can make you look unserious. But in my experience, memes humanize you and deliver genuine business outcomes.

Many notable CEOs have followed me specifically because of my memes about AI. For example, Aravind Srinivas, the founder of Perplexity, and I bonded over memes in DMs, which eventually led him to become one of our first podcast guests. Elon Musk has even reposted about five of my memes, significantly boosting my follower count.

Done right, memes drive major awareness and shift minds.

That's where Memelord comes in.

Built by Jason Levin (the former ghostwriter behind Product Hunt’s 500k-follower social media presence, plus several prominent tech CEOs), Memelord lets you:

• Spin a half-baked idea into a punchy meme in just 30 seconds.

• Get notified when a new meme starts trending, enabling you to quickly edit it, jump into the conversation, and easily attract followers and traffic.

• Leverage AI to analyze memes and generate witty, effective captions.

I’ve started using it for all my memes, and even joined his private “Memelord Mafia”.

Now, if you look at their pricing page, you might be shocked. It’s bold, to say the least. I’ll leave it at that.

→ Make millions from memes at memelord.com

🎙 The Next Wave: The Future of AI eCommerce

This week, I had a fascinating conversation with Ajay Bam, the founder of Vyrill. We talked about the future of e-commerce with AI, how OpenAI and Perplexity are getting involved in shopping, and more. → Watch | Listen

🛠️ Want my favorite Coding‑AI tools? Grab the list here.

📚 Things I’m Learning From

• [Link] – State of the product job market 2025 — engineering jobs are actually going up, not down.

• [Link] – Six free AI guides — practical handbooks from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

• [Link] – “Continuous Thought Machines,” Sakana AI Labs — new paper on persistent‑reasoning agents from Tokyo researchers.

That’s all for today. Please consider sharing the newsletter with your friends if you think they’d enjoy it. 🙏

-Nathan Lands
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Listen to The Next Wave → Apple | Spotify | YouTube

(Nathan may own equity in some of the companies mentioned in this newsletter)