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ImaginEconomy Daily #13
When AI video ads hit 86% adoption while brands lose search control to Reddit threads, who's really running the show?
Sami Viitamäki
Founder & Builder at futuriant.com Writer at imagineconomy.com Global Chief Strategy Officer at thisisbond.com
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ImaginEconomy Daily #12
Former OpenAI executives raise $2B with no product, open-source audio models challenge Silicon Valley, and GPT-5 promises to unify everything under one model to rule them all.
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The Great Refactoring: How Cloudflare Just Made Human Expertise a Luxury Good
On July 1, 2025, Cloudflare flipped one switch and transformed human expertise from commodity to luxury good. By blocking AI crawlers by default across 20% of the web, a private company became digital watchdog. Welcome to the age where infrastructure is policy and knowledge has a bouncer.
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ImaginEconomy Daily #11
AI still needs committees to verify answers. WPP hires Microsoft exec as CEO. Anthropic gives away education. Unilever scales influencers with AI. Google halves costs. Senate votes 99-1: no AI rules. When benchmarks become beauty contests, who's really winning?
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Beyond Automation: The Seven AI Experience Archetypes That Will Define the Next Decade
While most AI strategies obsess over automation, they're missing the bigger picture. Beyond task replacement lies a rich landscape of human-AI collaboration. Seven distinct experience archetypes from automation to augmentation showcase how to grow rather than diminish human capability.
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ImaginEconomy Daily #10
When AI consultants charge $10M minimums and 1 in 5 AI tools lie to your face, who's really winning the intelligence arms race?
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ImaginEconomy Daily #9
When 71% of CMOs plan to spend millions on AI but 92% admit their teams can't use it, who wins? Spoiler: Not the CMOs.
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ImaginEconomy Daily #8
In a world racing toward AI automation, the most successful marketing moments still happen in the well-orchestrated spaces between algorithms and intuition.
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ImaginEconomy Daily #7
Your boss calls with an urgent request. Perfect voice, same laugh. Except it's a $5 AI clone. Welcome to 2025: State Dept hacked by fake voices. Meta pays $100M for talent. AI does 30% of work. When everything's fake, being real is your only edge. Trust is the new oil—and we're running out.
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AI's Cognitive Reckoning: The Battle for the Future of Human Intelligence
The potential AI gains to our intelligence, learning & skills are real, but not guaranteed. Realizing them requires walking a tightrope of cognitive assistance & challenge; building shared context; amplifying by complementing, and long-term co-development.
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ImaginEconomy Daily #6
Voice Unchained: The Death of Typing Has Already Begun
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ImaginEconomy Daily #5
The best AI minds are becoming chess pieces in a $100 billion game