Chaos & Amazement #2523 Mary Meeker’s Report, Flow TV, and Browser Dating
This week’s Chaos & Amazement brings you a mix of practical inspiration, unsettling revelations, and beautifully weird internet gems—just the way you like it!
I joined Yannick Khayati’s AI for Marketers masterclass last week — packed with practical tools and time-saving workflows. Highly recommended, which is why I’m pointing you to the next one on 24 June in Antwerp. Grab your seat → https://growthsecrets.xyz/aimasterclass
Tech News
If you think AI is just another tool in your martech stack, you’re missing the bigger picture. The latest Mary Meeker report calls it the new infrastructure. CMOs are already using GenAI to drive growth, not just efficiency. How are you adapting? https://bondcap.com/reports/tai
In what may be China’s and possibly the world’s largest data leak ever, over 4 billion records were exposed: financial data, WeChat and Alipay details, and more. Researchers say it was used to build detailed behavioral and social profiles. And there’s very little the impacted users can do to protect themselves. https://cybernews.com/security/chinese-data-leak-billiones-records-exposed/
Now this is frightening. The biggest threat to privacy was never web cookies—it’s government surveillance. And now, with Trump choosing Palantir to compile data on Americans, that threat just got a lot more real. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html [paywall]
Fresh AI
Watching Flow TV until Veo 2 is available in my country. It’s mesmerizing. https://labs.google/flow/tv/
From my blog
AI as the default layer between users and the web https://bnox.be/2025/05/ai-as-default-layer-between-users-and.html
Weird and Wonderful
Artist Dries Depoorter is back with another banger:
https://browser.dating, a dating site that matches people based on their browser history. Love at first search?
Imagine you are in a room with 100 strangers, similar to your peers and neighbours. Compare yourself to them: are you above or below average?
Someone rebuilt Minecraft using only HTML and CSS. No JavaScript. It even uses the new :has() CSS selector. Runs smoothly in desktop browsers. Source code on GitHub. Go break your brain (in a good way). https://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/
This fantastical contraption is in Segovia, Spain.
Here’s a remarkable short film of the great gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, violinist Stéphane Grappelli and their band the "Quintette du Hot Club de France" performing on a movie set in 1938.
20-guitar cover of 1 song (The Killers’ When We Were Young). And they don’t miss a note.
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