Good Morning. Two actresses announced mid-40s pregnancies to shrugs, and the median first-time homebuyer just hit 40. We break down adulthood's stretched, pricey new timeline.
Plus, Meta's AI image retreat, McGregor's 69 seconds, and 42,000 papal words on AI (forwarded this email? Join 523k readers).
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The New Middle Age
Two high-profile pregnancy announcements this year, both women in their mid-40s, drew mostly congratulations and little of the old hand-wringing. A decade ago the same news would have sparked speculation. The muted reaction signals how much the timeline of adulthood has shifted.
The numbers explain it. The median first-time homebuyer hit 40 in 2025, a record. Births to women 40 and older have more than tripled since 1990, now outpacing teen births. Roughly 600,000 graduate students are over 40, nearly a fifth of the total.
Longer lives underwrite the shift, with female life expectancy at 81.4 years. But there's a catch: buying a first home at 40 instead of 30 can cost around $150,000 in lost equity over a lifetime.
Lindsey Graham’s Death
Sen. Lindsey Graham died Saturday night at his Washington home of an aortic dissection tied to cardiovascular disease, according to preliminary findings his office released Sunday from the D.C. medical examiner. He was 71, having marked the birthday two days earlier.
The official cause stays pending until toxicological and microscopic testing finishes, which could take weeks. Dispatch audio reviewed by reporters described crews forcing entry after a locked door and no answer, then performing CPR on a patient in cardiac arrest.
Graham had just returned from his tenth wartime trip to Ukraine. He spoke with President Trump around 6:30 that evening, reporting the trip went well and that he felt tired. Aortic dissection can strike within minutes after someone seems fine.
Zuck Backpedals
Meta pulled its Muse Image AI tool from Instagram on Friday, just four days after launch. The feature let anyone generate images from a public account simply by tagging it, and Meta admitted the rollout missed the mark.
The backlash moved fast. Every adult with a public account was opted in automatically, with no notice and no way to delete images once created. SAG-AFTRA, representing roughly 160,000 performers, and Creative Artists Agency both demanded a reversal within 48 hours.
Here's the catch. The @-mention tool is gone, but the underlying content-reuse setting stays active in your Instagram settings and still governs whether future Meta AI features can pull your photos. India's tech ministry also weighed in. Here is how to disable the feature.
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You're one weekend from your first AI dollar
AI didn't invent new businesses. It collapsed the time old ones take.
Most people think making money with AI means learning to code or building an app. The real opportunity is smaller and much closer: the businesses in your town still retype invoices by hand, answer the same twenty emails forever, and run websites written in 2014.
A menu rewrite that took a copywriter a week now takes an afternoon. A month of social posts takes an hour. Which means a normal person with a full-time job can now sell real work in the margins of a weekend.
The Pope wrote 42,000 words about AI
In May, Pope Leo XIV released the Vatican's first encyclical on artificial intelligence, and you don't need to be Catholic to find the questions worth sitting with. He calls this a "change of era" and warns against treating technology like a god (read it here).
The core ideas, stripped of the theology degree:
Intelligence isn't wisdom. AI can out-know you. It cannot out-live you. Homo sapiens translates to wise human, not smart human.
Watch for spiritual offloading. Outsourcing your thinking is one risk. Outsourcing your wonder is the bigger one.
The questions matter more than the answers. When every answer is instant, what you choose to ask becomes the rare skill.
Whatever you believe, the challenge lands the same: use AI to do more, but don't let it decide who you become.
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