The Best One Yet

🛞 “Restaurants sell Tires” — Michelin’s Guide’s wild history. Meta’s AI celebs. ExxonMobil’s OPEC-killer.


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The Michelin Guide is expanding from restaurants to hotels — This tire company (Michilin) getting into travel guides is one of the great stories of marketing history. 

To make AI happen, Meta launched 26 celebrity-based chatbots who look and interact like real people — Zuck paid the celebs millions, proving that AI fortunes favor the huge.

And ExxonMobil is reportedly planning its biggest acquisition since… Exxon acquired Mobil — The $60B deal would make ExxonMobil the 4th biggest oil-producing (country) on Earth.


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