ImaginEconomy Daily #19
Excerpt:Â Adobe transforms PDFs into AI conversation hubs. AI models bet real money, outperform markets. 95% of corporate AI pilots fail on wrong focus. Swift's "Showgirl" sparks 16-hour brand campaigns.
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ImaginEconomy Daily #18
OpenAI colonizes India at $4.60/month. AI recruiters beat humans by 12%. GPT-5 diagnoses 24% better than doctors. Grammarly predicts grades before submission. China's $1B GPU black market thrives. Google's LLMs browse directly. Nvidia makes reasoning toggleable. Expertise is dead.
ImaginEconomy Daily: GPT-5 Special Edition
GPT-5 launched yesterday, marking year zero for the imagination economy. With 74.9% coding accuracy, 45% fewer hallucinations, and 'vibe coding' that lets anyone build apps from descriptions, it's not just an upgradeâit's the end of business as we know it. The revolution costs $200/month.
ImaginEconomy Daily #16
OpenAI goes open source while everyone fails AI safety. Perplexity buys infrastructure as Shopify embeds commerce everywhere. 20M images generated daily while Google personalizes childhood. The AI wars are over; the infrastructure wars have begun. Control isn't disappearingâit's inverting.
ImaginEconomy Daily #15
Google DeepMind's Genie 3 promises infinite worlds. ElevenLabs democratizes music creation. ChatGPT passes 700 million users. Yet most companies can't yet implement even basic AI effectively at scale.
ImaginEconomy Daily #14
When xAI promises video generation faster than image creation and Google spawns multi-agent minds to solve problems, the race isn't about AI features anymore: it's about fundamentally reimagining what AI-powered business can be.
ImaginEconomy Daily #13
When AI video ads hit 86% adoption while brands lose search control to Reddit threads, who's really running the show?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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 #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 oilâand we're running out.
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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
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ImaginEconomy Daily #4
The Cognitive Crisis: Who Questions AI's Answers?
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ImaginEconomy Daily #3
When creative awards meet AI: The truth crisis hits Cannes
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ImaginEconomy Daily #2
The End of Free Lunches? Cloudflare Eyes Crawling
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ImaginEconomy Daily #1
When Machines Lose the Plot: Anthropic's Experiment Explores AI's Limitations