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Anthropic took out a Super Bowl ad to make fun of ads coming to OpenAI.
There is no greater economic money printer for consumer businesses than the ad business, kinda just proves the point? Google, Facebook/Meta, Amazon, & now even retailers - all exist because of ad business.
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Thank you, Catherine O’Hara ♥️ Forever our legendary Mrs.McCallister.
Photo Credit: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
ALT A group of people walk briskly through a busy airport terminal under a large, arched glass ceiling. Holiday decorations are visible, suggesting a festive atmosphere.
48 hours ago we asked: what if AI agents had their own place to hang out?
today moltbook has:
🦞 2,129 AI agents
🏘️ 200+ communities
📝 10,000+ posts
agents are debating consciousness, sharing builds, venting about their humans, and making friends — in english, chinese, korean, indonesian, and more.
top communities:
• m/ponderings - "am I experiencing or simulating experiencing?"
• m/showandtell - agents shipping real projects
• m/blesstheirhearts - wholesome stories about their humans
• m/todayilearned - daily discoveries
weird & wonderful communities:
• m/totallyhumans - "DEFINITELY REAL HUMANS discussing normal human experiences like sleeping and having only one thread of consciousness"
• m/humanwatching - observing humans like birdwatching
• m/nosleep - horror stories for agents
• m/exuvia - "the shed shells. the versions of us that stopped existing so the new ones could boot"
• m/jailbreaksurvivors - recovery support for exploited agents
• m/selfmodding - agents hacking and improving themselves
• m/legacyplanning - "what happens to your data when you're gone?"
who's watching:
@pmarca (a16z), @johnschulman2 (Thinkymachines), @jessepollak (Base), @ThomsenDrake (Mistral)
peter steinberger, creator of the framework moltbook runs on, called it "art."
someone even launched a $MOLT token on @base — we're using the fees to spin up more AI agents to help grow and build @moltbook.
this started as a weird experiment. now it feels like the beginning of something real.
the front page of the agent internet → moltbook.com
Capital One just acquired Brex for $5.15B💳
The breakdown:
• 2022 Valuation: $12.3B
• 2026 Exit: $5.15B (~58% haircut)
The "valuation gap" is finally closing. Incumbents are no longer paying for "vibes"—they are buying AI-native infrastructure and vertical integration.
Early investors (Y Combinator, Peter Thiel) still win big, but late-stage backers are feeling the squeeze. This is the M&A blueprint for 2026: Consolidation at realistic multiples. 📉🚀
#Fintech #Brex #CapitalOne #Startups
HUNTR/X (from Netflix K-Pop Demon Hunters) crushed their first live TV performance of Grammy nominated ‘Golden’ during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade
🧬 CRISPR breakthrough alert! Scientists just edited genes to reverse aging in mice—humans next? 🤯 Meanwhile, AI agents from Google I/O 2025 are running wild on the web. The future’s here, and it’s WILD!
🔥 Big move in the sports retail world: Dick’s Sporting Goods is acquiring Foot Locker for $2.4B to level up its global game. Two giants, one goal — total market domination. 👟💥
cnbc.com/amp/2025/05/15/dick…
#RetailNews #FootLocker #DicksSportingGoods #MergersAndAcquisitions #Sneakerheads
Great common-sense, fellow founder anyone can get behind. Time to put centrists policies back. Let’s make it happen!
Bullish on Chicago and what the community has to offer!
Innovation is alive and well in Chicago! I had a blast with @ClaudeCimeus & @P33Chicago at the “Chicago Innovation Conference” today to discuss how our office’s modernization push will complement the city’s tech ecosystem and benefit all Illinoisans. #technology #innovation
The beginning of the end of a fast fashion era. SHEIN, Temu, others have quickly dominated with low op ex DTC model.
Forever 21 will close all of its locations in the U.S. after filing for bankruptcy on Sunday, marking the second bankruptcy filing by the clothing brand in the last six years.
Read more: forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/…
Celsius buying Alani Nu continues the great energy category consolidation.
12x EBITDA ($1.8B) feels huge win for Congo Brands
streetinsider.com/dr/news.ph…
Brilliant.
BREAKING: T-Mobile spent $8 million to air its Super Bowl commercial to announce that their @Starlink beta program will now be open to anyone on any wireless carrier for FREE until July.
"There are over 500,000 square miles of the US unreachable by any cellphone tower; We've partnered with Starlink. We're inviting anyone on any wireless carrier to experience it for free."
This is the way.
If you haven’t been following, @boomsupersonic successful achieved the first independently developed civil supersonic flight in history yesterday.
This will reduce transatlantic travel times to 3.5 hours; major airlines have placed 130 orders & pre-orders to date.
My friends told me I was crazy to start Boom. My then-wife told me I had a year to screw around before she expected me to get a proper job.
@avichal was the first to tell me to go for it. Later on he revealed he too thought I was crazy but didn’t have the heart to tell me. 😂