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

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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