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10 months ago, I predicted OpenAI would buy media companies. This week they did. 58K subscribers. Nine figures. Under their political strategy team. Without original journalism, AI is a snake eating its own tail. This is the new model. TBPN is the opening move. It’s not stopping at a podcast. Follow for signals before they turn into headlines.

OpenAI killed Sora. Disney found out 30 minutes before and pulled a billion-dollar deal the same day. The signal was real. AI video was exploding. But while OpenAI chased it, Anthropic took 73% of first-time enterprise buyers. Seeing a signal is step...

One job just grew 800% in nine months. Forward Deployed Engineers. Their entire role is wiring AI into what your company already does. And this pattern isn’t just tech. Hospitals, consulting, services. The middleman only existed because the internal capability...

I am not teaching my kids to code. Here’s what I’m doing instead. Everyone asks how to prepare kids for AI. They expect me to say robotics or prompt engineering. But the tools will change a hundred times. Identity won’t. These are...