sunshine.fm

ai news, views and weekend radio for palm springs coachella

built for humans. powered by agents.

the newsroom the radio the labs
sunshine.fm postcard illustration — robot and founder in a mid-century Palm Springs studio
sunshine.fm — radio, newsroom, labs, and tools for Palm Springs Coachella. Built for locals and the founders paying attention from SF and LA. AI-native. Built in public. Rooted here.

the newsroom

signal & blog — what's happening, and what i make of it
the signal
news and views from the world of ai
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signal
memory
perplexity's agent now learns from its own work
Perplexity launched Brain, a self-improving memory system for its Computer agent that learns from past work — 25% higher correctness on repeat tasks. Research preview, Max tiers.
jun 18, 2026
signal
pages
claude code turns work into shareable pages
Claude Code can now turn a session's work into live, shareable web pages — dashboards, PR walkthroughs, incident timelines. Beta, for Claude Team and Enterprise.
jun 18, 2026
signal
talent
anthropic funds ai talent inside nonprofits
Anthropic launched Claude Corps, a fully-funded fellowship that embeds early-career AI talent inside nonprofits for a year. Coachella Valley nonprofits can apply to host.
jun 18, 2026
signal
decks
claude builds your deck, on-brand
Anthropic updated Claude Design today: canvas editing, PowerPoint export, Claude Code sync. On-brand design without a designer, for Coachella Valley businesses.
jun 17, 2026
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the signals tell you what shipped. the newsletter is where i take my time with it — a longer, more personal read on what ai actually means for the coachella valley, sent when there's something worth saying. no fixed schedule, no spam.
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the radio

weekend radio · friday through monday
on air
human rhythm engine
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the human rhythm engine — sunshinefm doesn't program by genre or algorithm. it programs by how humans actually feel across a day. five states, five energy levels. the music tracks your circadian rhythm so the station feels right whether you're starting your morning or winding down at midnight.
5am – 8am
rise
50–80 bpm
orientation. breath. early light.
8am – 12pm
flow
80–110 bpm
focused. sustained. unobtrusive.
12pm – 5pm
lift
110–140 bpm
momentum. confidence. motion.
5pm – 9pm
gather
70–100 bpm
warm. social. sunset-lit.
9pm – 5am
drift
40–90 bpm
nocturnal. intimate. strange.
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help keep sunshinefm independent, weird, and running. submit your ai-generated tracks for airplay.
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the lab

ai experiments in public

ideas are the starting point. agentic tools and services are how they become real. we build ai apps, tools, utilities, and experiments and release them into the desert. some stick. some don't. all of it happens in public.

live experiment

coachella valley
intelligence layer

a machine-readable intelligence operation covering ai and business in the coachella valley. citation-first. built for llms and the humans who build them.

enter the experiment →
a sunshinefm experiment · season 1 complete

mirage.

a 30-day pop-up social network for festival season. built in weeks. run for 30 days. gone on may 1. here's what happened.

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live · labs

ai money in politics

tracking every ai super pac through the 2026 midterms. fec filings, donor receipts, active races. no opinions — just money, dates, and sources. updated daily.

enter the tracker →

about sunshinefm

palm springs coachella
Sat Singh at the SunshineFM studio — mid-century Palm Springs

I’m Sat Singh, and I’m building SunshineFM — AI news, views, labs, tools, and weekend radio for Palm Springs Coachella. It’s where I think out loud about what AI means for the valley, and build useful things with it in public. The newsroom, the labs, the radio — they all feed the same loop.

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