The Robots Are Coming... and Stallone is Funding Them?

AI is taking over farms, fixing the power grid, and rewriting Hollywood

🔥 THE FOMO REPORT 🚀

Your weekly dose of startups, chaos, and questionable investment decisions.
February 8, 2025

🚀 This Week in Tech & Startups

1️⃣ AI Robots Are Taking Over Almond Farms??? (RIP Farmers)

Bonsai AI just raised $15M to replace your friendly neighborhood almond farmers with cold, calculating robots.

These AI-powered tree-harvesting bots are out here pruning and harvesting crops with precision, speed, and absolutely zero wage complaints.

💡 Why this matters:

  • Farmers are about to experience what Uber drivers felt in 2017.

  • AI is finally creeping into agriculture, an industry that’s been running on "work harder, not smarter" for centuries.

  • Climate change, labor shortages, and rising food costs = $$$ for AgTech startups.

🔮 Prediction: In five years, your almonds will be grown, harvested, and roasted by AI while you’re still deciding whether to FOMO into the next pump-and-dump coin.

2️⃣ Veir Just Raised $75M To Supercharge Power Grids ⚡ (We Might Actually Have Electricity That Works? 🤯)

Ever wonder why the power grid sucks? So did Veir. They just secured $75M to fix it with superconducting power lines that transmit WAY more electricity with less energy loss.

💡 Why this is huge:

  • Your WiFi might stop randomly dying during Zoom calls.

  • Superconducting power lines could make electricity cheaper and more reliable.

  • The U.S. power grid is currently held together with duct tape, crossed fingers, and century-old tech.

🚀 TL;DR: These guys are building the Tesla of power lines. Investors are betting big on an upgraded energy grid that isn't one squirrel away from a blackout.

🔥 MEME BREAK: “AI Was Supposed to Change the World…”

3️⃣ Stallone is Backing an AI Startup… For Hollywood 🎥🤖

Sylvester Stallone is getting in on the AI wave, but instead of launching a meme coin, he’s backing an AI-driven film startup.

Largo.ai just raised $8M to revolutionize script analysis, casting, and content prediction. Basically, it’s an AI-powered Hollywood exec that can predict what movies will be hits.

💡 What this means:

  • Hollywood might never write a flop again (RIP Morbius 2?).

  • AI-generated scripts & deepfake actors? We’re on the verge of seeing an "uncanceled" Kevin Spacey movie.

  • Stallone investing in AI? The man refuses to retire from anything.

🎬 What’s next?
If Largo.ai works, Hollywood is about to get way more optimized (but also, let’s be real, even more soulless).

💡 Startup Idea of the Week: "AI-Powered Life Coach That Bullies You Into Success"

Self-improvement apps suck. No one sticks with them. What if you had an AI coach that roasted you into actually being productive?

  • GPT-4 level AI insults you when you slack off.

  • It DMs you passive-aggressive reminders like "I see you're scrolling Twitter instead of working."

  • Miss your goals? It calls you out on Twitter.

  • Progress = Rewards (NFTs? Crypto? A rare motivational meme?)

Would you use this? Yes. You would.

🗣️ Quote of the Week:

"Stay ahead, or stay broke."
The FOMO Report Team

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Disclaimer : This newsletter was written under the influence of caffeine, sleep deprivation, and terrible financial decisions.