🍭 Bots Brutally Brewing Beer 🍻

Good morning. AI is now a lab assistant, a CFO, and a layoff consultant.

Let’s dive in 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• MIT turns AI into a lab super-assistant

• Heineken cuts 6,000 and blames AI

• 64% of EU youth now using generative AI

Steal This Prompt
🧴 Flat Lay Product Photography

This prompt generates clean, top-down flat lay shots with balanced spacing, soft shadows, and editorial composition.

Use it to:

• Create Shopify-ready product images in seconds

• Build aesthetic Instagram grids without touching a camera

• Design clean brand moodboards and launch visuals

• Make everyday objects feel intentional and designed

Workflow:

1. Click this link (Prompt).

2. Paste into your AI model

3. Replace the #s with your product and surface style

4. Watch it cook into clean, minimal perfection

   Try the prompt on Snack Prompt

Layoff
🍺 Heineken Puts 6,000 Job Cuts Into AI Account

The Bite:
Heineken is cutting 6,000 jobs globally.

The company says AI and automation will drive “productivity savings.”

But this comes after weak beer volumes, softer demand in key markets, and pressure to improve margins.

The CEO is also stepping down.

So let’s be honest about what’s happening here.

Snacks:

• 6,000 roles being eliminated globally

• Beer volumes fell last year across major markets

• Consumer demand remains soft in Europe and the Americas

• Company cited AI and digital investments for efficiency gains

• CEO Dolf van den Brink announced plans to step down

Why it Bites:
This isn’t a breakthrough in robotics brewing lager.

This is another case of a company facing slower sales and investor pressure, bundling layoffs under the banner of “AI transformation.”

We’ve seen this play out before.

Sales dip. Margins tighten. Wall Street wants discipline.

Suddenly AI becomes the headline reason for a workforce reset coming anyway.

AI is turning into a financial buzzword.

It signals modernity, cost control, and future upside.
Even when the core issue is weak demand.

Heineken isn’t firing 6,000 people because a bot learned to pour beer.
It’s doing it because growth stalled.

But we can all agree on something:

“AI” makes it sound sooo strategic.

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Science
🧪 AI Is Finally Speeding Up Scientific Discovery

The Bite:
While the internet has been arguing about chatbots, researchers at MIT have been using AI to speed up how we discover new materials.

Professor Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli and his team are combining AI models with physics-based simulations to design things like better batteries and climate-friendly materials.

Instead of running endless lab experiments, they use AI to propose candidates, then test them in detailed computer simulations before anything touches a beaker.

It’s faster. It’s cheaper. And it’s starting to work.

Snacks:

• AI models generate new material candidates digitally

• Simulations test whether they obey real-world physics

• Cuts down slow, expensive lab trial-and-error

• Focused on climate tech, energy storage, and chemicals

• Blends machine learning with scientific constraints

Why it Bites:
For decades, materials discovery has been slow.

Scientists would tweak a formula, run an experiment, wait days or weeks, then repeat.

Now AI can suggest thousands of possible designs in minutes.
Simulations filter out the bad ones before real-world testing begins.

That doesn’t mean AI is replacing scientists.

It’s acting like a high-speed research assistant that never gets tired and doesn’t mind crunching through massive search spaces.

There’s also a quiet shift happening here.

Big tech scaled language models by feeding them the internet.

But in hard science, that approach hits limits.
Physics still matters. Chemistry still matters.

You can’t hallucinate your way into a working battery.

The interesting part isn’t AI alone.

It’s AI guided by scientific rules.

This is promising, but it’s still early.
Lab validation and real-world performance still matter.

But if this direction holds, research itself starts to change.

Now you get tighter loops. Faster hypotheses. Smarter guesses.

AI-first science doesn’t mean robots running labs alone.

It means scientists spending less time guessing and more time discovering.

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🧠 You Need to Know

👁️‍🗨️ Microsoft AI Tour in São Paulo Pushes ‘Frontier Firms’ Vision
→ Microsoft outlined how Brazilian companies can become “frontier firms” by embedding AI into core operations during its AI Tour event in São Paulo.

🍺 Heineken to Cut 6,000 Jobs as AI Drives Savings
→ Heineken plans to eliminate 6,000 roles globally as it leans on AI and automation to boost productivity and reduce costs.

🧪 MIT Professor Says AI + Simulation Could Reinvent Scientific Discovery
→ MIT’s Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli argues that combining AI with advanced simulations can dramatically accelerate materials and discovery.

💶 Mistral AI Expands Infrastructure Into Sweden
→ Mistral AI announced new infrastructure investments in Sweden to support European AI development and data sovereignty.

📊 64% of 16–24-Year-Olds Used AI in 2025
→ Eurostat reports 63.8% of EU youth (16–24) used generative AI tools in 2025.
That’s nearly double the overall population rate.