Platforms, markets & distribution

ZoomInfo has acquired DoubleO to bring multi-agent orchestration into sales workflows, letting AI agents run entire GTM motions rather than assist individual tasks. From MI6 to AI6 - military intelligence just flipped to marketing intel.

• AI agents
• AI & machine learning
• Product systems
• Venture economics
• Platforms & distribution
• Humans & machines

Palo Alto Networks found no AI cyber model caught more than 40% of vulnerabilities, with under 10% overlap - prompting a multi-model defense service. Who knew scaling second opinions constituted a defense mechanism.

• AI & machine learning
• Platforms & distribution
• Humans & machines

OpenAI is testing business-sponsored agents inside ChatGPT, letting advertisers have their own AI representatives talk directly with users. Sponsored ads going from big claims to small talk.

• AI agents
• AI & machine learning
• Platforms & distribution
• Humans & machines

OpenAI has temporarily stopped new $200 Pro subscriptions after demand for Astra exceeded available compute capacity. The cloud has officially run out of sky.

• AI & machine learning
• Platforms & distribution

Context is the overtaking lane for attention

• Platforms & distribution

The next ad blocker may just be your agent having standards.

• AI agents
• Platforms & distribution
• Humans & machines

Gen Z isn’t anti-entertainment. They’re just running culture like an optimized trial subscription - with theatrical exceptions.

• Platforms & distribution
• Technology & culture

The TV screen keeps getting bigger. Human attention remains stubbornly the same size.

• Media & streaming
• Platforms & distribution
• Technology & culture
• Humans & machines

With its OpenRouter acquisition, Stripe is preparing for customers who don’t have pockets.

• Venture economics
• Platforms & distribution

Rumor: $12.9B Nvidia acquisition Reality: a $399 robot MicroDuck Hugging Face has entered its quack-to-market phase

• Venture economics
• Platforms & distribution

OpenAI’s ads business hit a $1B annualized run rate in under 200 days. AI side hustles scale differently

• AI & machine learning
• Platforms & distribution

Every streaming platform eventually reaches the same conclusion: the real content strategy was the infrastructure we uncovered along the way.

• Media & streaming
• Product systems
• Platforms & distribution

Culture shouldn’t have to keep asking permission from platforms with quarterly feelings.

• Platforms & distribution
• Technology & culture

Careers have strange platform dynamics. Sometimes the failed path is just legacy architecture refusing to scale the emerging version of you.

• Platforms & distribution

The average user is navigating so many funnels and flywheels that modern digital life is basically a multiverse game with recurring subscription mechanics.

• Platforms & distribution
• Humans & machines

Upfronts measurement - eventually someone has to calculate how much of the spend went to Amazon and how much went down the river.

• Platforms & distribution

Every creator platform eventually discovers it isn’t selling tools. It’s selling escape velocity with a fee structure.

• Creators & publishing
• Platforms & distribution

The future of producing increasingly sounds like air-traffic control for creativity: talent, capital, platforms, rights, schedules, and chaos all requesting clearance at once.

• Venture economics
• Platforms & distribution

OpenRouter’s acquisition brings AI model access into the same infrastructure orbit as payments. stripe - the throughline between abstracting money and abstracting intelligence

• AI & machine learning
• Venture economics
• Platforms & distribution
• Humans & machines

The real platform shift is when the audience leaves the platform with you.

• Media & streaming
• Platforms & distribution

Trailers are still one of the few formats designed to sell anticipation instead of attention.

• Media & streaming
• Platforms & distribution

Marketing is just prompt engineering for humans

• AI & machine learning
• Platforms & distribution
• Technology & culture
• Humans & machines

The Impressionism of writing: Manet, Monet, Monetized Impressions.

• Creators & publishing
• Platforms & distribution
• Technology & culture

Every platform launches with a currency: subscription or attention. There’s no such thing as a free launch.

• Platforms & distribution

Turns out the best networking protocol doesn't need Wi-Fi

• Platforms & distribution
• Humans & machines

We're getting awfully close to ads negotiating their own placement.

• Platforms & distribution

The Circulation Problem of Classical Cinema

From Storage Logic to Circulation Logic

• AI & machine learning
• Discovery
• Media & streaming
• Product systems
• Platforms & distribution
• Technology & culture
• Humans & machines

The First Reader

When Product Design Externalizes the Cold Start Problem

• AI & machine learning
• Discovery
• Media & streaming
• Creators & publishing
• Product systems
• Platforms & distribution
• Technology & culture
• Humans & machines

The towel was thrown. The universe used it as a bookmark. Filed under: The Tao of Not Marketing

• Platforms & distribution

Class progression: muted Attention span: not found Filed under: EdTech - The Jet Lag of Learning

• Platforms & distribution
• Humans & machines

Shexting (verb), when your shopping cart slides back into your inbox like: 'Still thinking about you… 20% off'.

• Platforms & distribution

I refuse to join any platform that promotes my work too easily. Clearly, it has no editorial standards.

• Platforms & distribution
• Humans & machines