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Meta is opening pop-up shops to show off its smart glasses with a display
Meta is set to open new pop-up shops, known as Meta Labs, across Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and New York, beginning in October 2025, to showcase and provide demos of their upcoming smart glasses, including the $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display launching on September 30th and the $499 Oakley Meta Vanguard set for October 21st. The…
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If Netflix buys Warner Bros. Entertainment, forget “streaming wars.” Wars imply two sides. This is Netflix walking into the battlefield, nuking everyone else’s supply lines, and then selling branded… | Pesach Lattin
If Netflix acquires Warner Bros. Entertainment, it could potentially dominate the media landscape by combining its 301.6 million subscribers with Warner’s vast library, including Harry Potter, DC, and HBO, creating a cultural monopoly. This move, coupled with a groundbreaking global deal with AB InBev for innovative product placement, signals Netflix’s strategy to transform entertainment into…
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I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
In the backdrop of Silicon Valley’s shifting political landscape by 2025, Mark Lemley, a Stanford intellectual property professor, severed ties with Meta, citing Mark Zuckerberg’s embrace of toxic masculinity and neo-Nazi ideologies. The tech industry’s alignment with political figures like Donald Trump has caused a divergence from its traditionally liberal values, with many leaders opting…
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Palantir Wants to Be a Lifestyle Brand
Palantir Technologies, a company known for its software used by immigration authorities, militaries, and corporations, relocated from Silicon Valley to Denver in 2020 and has recently ventured into the lifestyle brand space by relaunching an online merchandise store. The store, which sells items such as tote bags and baseball caps, aims to foster a sense…
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Ex-TikTok execs land funding for social commerce start-up Unbox
Former TikTok executives Hugo Soul and Michael Coombs have raised £1.2 million from investors, including Mercuri, Love Ventures, and Notion Capital, to fund their social commerce management start-up, Unbox. The company, which has processed millions of shoppable video clips, aims to provide infrastructure for brands in the rapidly growing social commerce market, projected to reach…
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Bridging the gap – solving retail media’s fragmentation challenge
Retail media has rapidly become a major advertising strategy, valued at over £1 billion in the UK, by leveraging data and insights to connect brands with customers and close the loop on in-store sales. Despite its growth and importance, challenges like campaign fragmentation and lack of industry standardization persist, which can be addressed through unified…
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Synthetic Social: The Next Chapter of the Internet
Meta and OpenAI are developing AI-native social platforms, such as Meta’s Vibes and OpenAI’s rumored Sora video app, which generate rather than just share human expression, introducing a new category of social media where AI content takes center stage. As AI-generated content becomes ubiquitous, authenticity and human-made content might become premium, with OpenAI leveraging novelty…
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Sora 2 isn’t a video launch. It’s a new creator economy of “synthetic influencers”. OpenAI did two clever things during the onboarding to Sora 2 -> they scan your face + clone your voice. It turns… | Kieran Flanagan | 20 comments
Sora 2, developed by OpenAI, introduces a new creator economy centered around “synthetic influencers,” allowing users to transform into AI models by scanning their faces and cloning their voices for video use. This innovation, which integrates with Stripe for monetization, offers a novel market for licensing one’s AI likeness and facilitates brands in creatively leveraging…
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CMO as a showrunner
Subculture is a partner, not a targetFather Mother Sister Brother by Jim Jarmusch by Saint Laurent ProductionsThe most culturally influential brands are those with a system for cultural production: part creative studio, part media company, part cultural machine. Their product calendars are in sync with their cultural calendars. Every product moment is also a cultural…
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How AI could reshape the economics of the asset management industry
Amid mounting margin pressure, asset management firms must join the AI revolution and transform technology into a true enabler of scalable productivity.
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