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The Best One Yet

đŸ„č “Adorrrrrable” — AI agent’s cute-washing. Arcteryx vs. Patagonia. Skydance’s megastudio. +Publicly traded poetry

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Why is every tech brand launching a cute AI mascot?
 It’s the Labubufication of AI.

Arcteryx has become an accidental luxury brand
 just like Patagonia before it.

Paramount + Warner Bros closes tomorrow
 introducing David Ellison’s “Skydance.”

Plus, we wrote poem (a publicly-traded poem)... about Nike

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