Taylor Swift Reclaims Her Music—and the Spotlight 🎶✨

Biz Analyst Club Newsletter

by The Business Model Analyst

Hello, Biz Enthusiasts!
Taylor Swift just bought back her music empire, Gen Z is letting AI handle homework and job applications, and Elon Musk is quietly trying to reinvent messaging apps (again). Meanwhile, white-collar workers are realizing that AI doesn’t just write emails — it might also be writing them out of a job.
In short: The business world is weird, wonderful, and evolving faster than your unread Slack messages. Let’s jump into today’s top stories.

Hot Takes 🚀

1. Taylor Swift Just Pulled the Ultimate Founder Move 🎤💼
Six years after losing the rights to her master recordings, Taylor Swift bought them back — in full. No partners. No strings. Just pure ownership vibes. This is basically the startup exit dream, but with more glitter.
👉 See how she regained her billion-dollar brand

2. AI Is Quietly Killing White-Collar Jobs 💼📉
A new study confirms it: companies are cutting roles that AI can do — and fast. Since 2022, job postings in high-AI exposure fields are down 31%. That "learn to code" advice? Yeah… awkward.
👉 Where the jobs are vanishing first (and what it means)

3. OpenAI Wants to Be Your Smartest Coworker 🤖📎
A leaked internal doc lays out OpenAI’s 2025 strategy: evolve ChatGPT into a “super-assistant” that knows your goals, finishes your tasks, and maybe sends your emails better than you do.
👉 What the leaked plan says about the future of AI work

4. North Korea Is Farming U.S. Tech Jobs — Literally 💻
One woman with a laptop farm helped North Korean workers pose as U.S. remote tech hires — collecting $17M in paychecks from 300+ companies. It’s like the gig economy meets international espionage.
👉 How everyday Americans got duped by fake devs

5. The Web Is Being Rebuilt Around AI. No One Has a Map 🕸️🧠
Browsers, search engines, even your favorite websites are being overhauled for an AI-first world. Summaries are replacing clicks. Content creators? Losing traffic. The internet as we know it is getting… weird.
👉 Why the open web may soon be closed for business

Quick Hits 📰

• 🧠 Meta’s AI Ads Are Getting Fully Automated: Soon, you’ll just tell Meta what you want to sell — and it’ll create, target, and deploy your ad. CMOs everywhere are sweating.
  👉 The future of ad agencies? One algorithm

• 🍗 KFC Now Makes Fried Chicken Toothpaste: Because who doesn’t want 11 herbs and spices between their molars?
  👉 Finger-lickin’... minty?

• 📺 Succession’s Creator Is Back With a Satire on Tech Bros: “Mountainhead” is like The Big Short, but with more A.I. disasters and sauna monologues.
  👉 Watch rich tech guys spiral in a snowy retreat

• 🕶️ New Contact Lenses Let You See in the Dark: Infrared vision is no longer sci-fi. Scientists have built real “night vision contacts.”
  👉 Night vision, Morse code eyes, and more

• 📉 UnitedHealth Just Lost $250 Billion — Fast: One bad bet on Medicare patients torpedoed decades of stability. Oof.
  👉 Inside one of the biggest healthcare flops ever

• 🍬 Haribo’s Cola Candy Recalled for… Cannabis?: In the Netherlands, some gummy bags came with a surprise high. That’s not the buzz they were going for.
  👉 Why Haribo recalled its fizzy treats

• 🦾 Perplexity Launches AI to Build Dashboards & Docs: Just describe your need, and it’ll spit out full reports or spreadsheets. Bye-bye interns?
  👉 Check out Perplexity Labs

• 📱 X’s New Messaging App, XChat, Is Coming: Think encrypted chats, vanishing messages, passcodes — Elon’s version of Signal is nearly here.
  👉 Is this the new era of private messaging?

• 🍔 DoorDash’s CEO Is Going Shopping: After buying Deliveroo and SevenRooms, Tony Xu is basically Thanos with a corporate credit card.
  👉 DoorDash’s $2.5B plan to dominate delivery

• 🚗 BlackBerry Is Now a Car Tech Company: Yes, that BlackBerry. It quietly pivoted from smartphones to software running inside your car.
  👉 Meet the CEO steering BlackBerry’s rebirth

A Deep Dive into Platform Power: The OpenAI Case Study

Feeling inspired? Mildly alarmed? Ready to pitch a startup to Taylor Swift’s legal team or outsource your calendar to ChatGPT? Power down your 18 open tabs, breathe in some capitalist optimism, and remember: if your job’s safe from AI today… there’s always tomorrow. Welcome to the fun zone.

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