The Unexpected Loyalty of Older Shoppers and the Rise of AI Girlfriend Bots

Netflix is getting into the live event business in a big way by buying the rights to WWE wrestling. We have the first political ad incident of the AI era. Who’s really doing all the buying on apps like Shein and Temu? OpenAI struggles to fend of an army of girlfriend bots. And let me introduce you to Palworld.

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Links:

• Netflix Pays $5 Billion for ‘Raw’ in Bet on Live Events (Bloomberg)
• Fake Joe Biden robocall tells New Hampshire Democrats not to vote Tuesday (NBCNews)
• iOS 17.3 is out, adding Stolen Device Protection for your iPhone (The Verge)
• Temu’s Most Loyal Shoppers Are Actually Boomers and Gen Xers (Bloomberg)
• OPENAI STRUGGLING TO DESTROY ONSLAUGHT OF AI GIRLFRIENDS (The Byte)
• AI girlfriend bots are already flooding OpenAI’s GPT store (QZ)
• The Rise of Palworld: How ‘Pokémon With Guns’ Became an Overnight Hit (Wired)
• Palworld is a hit, and it’s easy to see why (The Verge)

Video of me flirting with an AI "girlfriend" bot

YouTube of Saturday's Bonus Episode with Baratunde Thurston

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