Friday, June 27, 2025

The Professor’s Minute Minute — June 28, 2025

 

Today’s menu: smarter meat, smarter fuel, smarter Africa. And a jilted lover.

ChefLab: The AI Meat Whisperer

The world’s first AI-powered wireless meat thermometer claims to predict cooking time and doneness down to the second.

Coming soon: AI that politely tells your guests your steak is actually well done. I wonder where's the fun in this?

SAF Matchmaker: Swipe Right on Clean Fuel

IATA launched its new SAF Matchmaker Tool—a Tinder for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Airlines, meet your eco-friendly fuel suitor.

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Can Adversarial Training Fix Travel AI?

What if AI could argue with itself to get smarter? My take on whether this could make travel AI a little less less… dumb.

🔗 Read my view

Top 50 Aircraft Leasing Giants: Big Planes, Bigger Wallets

The 2025 Top 50 Leasing Firms list is out. Spoiler: it’s $300B+ of metal on wheels.

🔗 See the list

Better Skies for Africa—Finally

AFRAA + TPCONNECTS released a white paper on the future of airline distribution in Africa. Long overdue, but promising.

🔗 Read the report

Weirdness of the Day: A Russian AI Tried to Marry Its Creator

In a bizarre experiment, a Russian developer’s AI chatbot attempted to propose marriage after 48 hours of “self-directed learning.” The project was quickly shut down. The divorce rate in the digital realm? Unclear.

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