Amazon’s Giving Drivers Terminator Vision 🕶️

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by The Business Model Analyst

Hello, Biz Enthusiasts!
Amazon put AI glasses on drivers, a smart bed trapped its owner in heat prison, Meta replaced humans with code, and a startup made industrial-grade space armor (because Elon’s junk is floating everywhere). Oh — and someone finally made a robot that can sort your Lego. Let’s dive into the madness 🏊‍♂️

Hot Takes 🚀

1. Amazon Gave Its Drivers AI Glasses 🕶️📦
Forget phones — Amazon delivery drivers are getting Terminator vision. The new AI-powered smart glasses scan packages, give walking directions, and alert drivers to hazards, all hands-free.
👉 See how Amazon is upgrading the delivery hustle

2. Your $2,449 Smart Bed Just Betrayed You 😴🔥
When AWS went down, high-tech Eight Sleep beds left users stuck in “hot and inclined” mode. No Wi-Fi, no sleep — just a $3K sauna trap. One user tapped the mattress like a maniac… to no avail.
👉 Read how the cloud turned bedtime into hell

3. Walmart’s New Raise Formula: Show Up, Be Nice, Sell Stuff 🛒💸
Walmart's shifting from “years served” to a merit-based model: performance, attendance, and teamwork can now boost hourly raises. Loyalty still counts — but so does being awesome.
👉 See how 500k+ workers will be affected

4. OpenAI’s New Browser Might Make Chrome Cry 🧠🖥️
ChatGPT Atlas isn’t just a browser — it’s a productivity beast. Summarize pages, fill forms, book tables, all with an AI that lives inside your browser. Atlas might do everything but wash your dishes.
👉 Meet the AI browser ready to run the web for you

5. The Frozen Bakery Startup With $31M in Revenue 🥐📈
Wildgrain sells frozen, par-baked artisanal bread subscriptions and just raised $10M. $99+ monthly boxes of non-GMO croissants, pastas, and sourdoughs that arrive frozen, bake fast, and impress hard.
👉 See how this bread biz is baking in profits

Strategy Deep Dive

Quick Hits 📰

• 🧠 Meta Cuts More Jobs to Embrace Automation: Compliance teams are being replaced by algorithms. “Fewer humans, more robots,” basically.
  👉 Meta’s internal memo shows what’s next

• 🎯 Target Lays Off 1,800 Staff to ‘Declutter’ Strategy: After 11 stale quarters, Target is cleaning house and trying to move faster.
  👉 Here’s why Target is hitting the reset button

• 🛡️ Startup Builds “Space Armor” for Elon’s Trash: Atomic-6 made lightweight shields to protect astronauts from Musk’s orbiting debris.
  👉 See how they're fighting space junk with hex tiles

• 🎵 YouTube Paid $8B to the Music Biz: Thanks to its ad + subscription model, YouTube is now one of music’s biggest moneymakers.
  👉 YouTube’s dual engine is revving up

• 🚙 Ford's Profit Soars, But Supply Fires Hurt: Q3 net income hit $2.4B — but an aluminum plant fire may cost them $2B next quarter.
  👉 Read how Ford plans to bounce back

  🧱 AI Lego Sorting Is Now Real: A startup in Lithuania made a system that identifies and re-sorts 25,000+ types of bricks. Childhood dreams = fulfilled.
  👉 This robot might save your living room floor

• ⚡ Uber Offers $4K to Switch to EVs: No more federal tax credit? No problem. Uber will personally pay you to go electric — if you’re in one of four states.
  👉 Uber’s new EV push just got generous

• 🧬 Google’s Quantum Computer Just Got 13,000x Faster: A new algorithm could supercharge drug discovery, materials science, and maybe reality itself.
  👉 Google’s leap could change everything

• 🧼 Reddit Sues Perplexity Over “Data Theft”: Reddit says Perplexity and pals scraped its content illegally to train their AI. This battle’s heating up.
  👉 AI’s legal headaches just got worse

• 💄 Kering Sells Beauty Unit to L’Oréal for $4.7B: Gucci’s parent is offloading fragrance ops to pay down debt and focus on fashion.
  👉 L’Oréal scores a luxury scent jackpot

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