Catégorie : Strategy
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LooksMapping
I scraped millions of Google Maps restaurant reviews, and gave each reviewer’s profile picture to an AI model that rates how hot they are out of 10. This map shows how attractive each restaurant’s clientele is. Red means hot, blue means not.The model is certainly biased. It’s certainly flawed. But we judge places by the…
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AI is eating the world and world leaders & top entrepreneurs know it. | Guillermo Flor
This is an AI cheat sheet worthy of its own VC pitch deck—love how you distilled lessons from trenches, boardrooms, and late-night tool-testing marathons. In a world where even your to-do list is wondering if it’s been automated, knowing where to focus is half the battle. For those ready to turn these insights into action,…
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AI is eating its sources. | Frans Riemersma
AI is eating its sources. This graph is alarming for both supply (content creators) and demand (AI engines). Is the economic model of the internet collapsing? Let me try to break down what’s happening. Search engines scraped website content (supply) and paid back in traffic (demand). It was a working trade-off: traffic in exchange for…
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Plot twist: The biggest threat to Google’s travel dominance isn’t another search engine 🤯 | Dan Hocking
Plot twist: The biggest threat to Google’s travel dominance isn’t another search engine 🤯 It’s platforms like Skyscanner turning themselves into AI-powered travel advisors. While everyone’s obsessing over SEO and Google Ads, Skyscanner quietly built something more valuable: direct relationships. 75% of their traffic now skips Google entirely. 1.2 million new accounts every month. They’ve…
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How to prepare for tomorrow’s agentic workforce
Plus, the great trade rearrangement Share this email AI agents are reshaping the competitive landscape. Done right, they offer laggards a chance to leap ahead. Done wrong—or not at all—they could hasten the fall of today’s leaders. This is a moment of strategic divergence. In our…
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The new front door to your hotel isn’t your website. | Greg Bringardner
The new front door to your hotel isn’t your website. It’s an AI-generated paragraph. For 20 years, the game was getting guests to your website. We mastered SEO and direct bookings. That era is over. The new gatekeepers, like Google’s AI Overviews and ChatGPT, aren’t designed to send you traffic. They’re designed to replace it,…
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I was thinking about this over the weekend – just how much extra effort it now takes to simply buy things. | Luke Reed
I was thinking about this over the weekend – just how much extra effort it now takes to simply buy things. We’re told technology makes life easier. Faster. Smarter. More efficient. But has it really? 🛒 Self-checkouts – Now you scan, bag, and pay. No help. No conversation. No discount for doing the cashier’s job.…
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Fish Food 650: Have we got personalisation all wrong?
Flipping the personalisation lens, taste in the age of AI, why systems trump goals, 300 Cannes entries, and a remarkable AI philosopher This week’s provocation: VRM, adaptive media and AI Imagine this – It’s 7:12 a.m. and your phone pings. It’s your own AI agent asking if you’d like a summary of the day’s news…
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Diary of a Brand: A24
Turning an indie movie studio into a multibillion dollar brand “I really like those guys. They don’t have the personality of movie executives.” Director Sofia Coppola on A24 A24 is building a new kind of movie studio. The indie studio behind critically acclaimed films Moonlight, Uncut Gems, and Everything Everywhere All at Once has built…
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MCPs: Value Creation, Capture, and Destruction—Lessons from the API Era
Why Most MCP Startups Will Die (and Who Won’t)MCPs and the API ParallelWhen Anthropic launched the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in late 2024, it struck a chord across the developer community. At last, a solution to the spaghetti mess of AI integrations. MCP proposed a clean, standardized way for AI systems to communicate with external…
