The AI Actress Hollywood Fears 🎥🤖

Biz Analyst Club Newsletter

by The Business Model Analyst

Hello, Biz Enthusiasts!
A robot actress just made her Hollywood debut (and she might out-emote your favorite star), ChatGPT overtook Amazon and Reddit in traffic, and Waymo's robotaxis are failing preschool-level driving tests. Also, Gen Z has decided that renting is the new owning, and the influencer economy might be fueling your next quarter-life crisis.
Let’s unpack the chaos before the robots write this newsletter themselves. 🧠💥 

Hot Takes 🚀

1. Hollywood’s Newest Star? An AI Named Tilly 🎥🤖
A synthetic actress named Tilly Norwood is ruffling celebrity feathers—Whoopi, Emily Blunt, and co. are not thrilled. Created to be the “Scarlett Johansson of AI,” she took 2,000 iterations to perfect. She's not here for your Oscar, just your screen time.
👉 Meet the AI starlet shaking up showbiz

2. ChatGPT Now Bigger Than Amazon and Reddit 🧠📈
Move over, Bezos—ChatGPT just became the 5th most visited site on Earth, pulling in 6.3 billion visits in a single month. Boomers are catching up too—45+ users now make up nearly 30% of the traffic. And yet… OpenAI’s CEO just called a “code red”?
👉 Find out why ChatGPT’s success triggered panic

3. Waymo’s Robotaxis Didn’t Stop for School Buses 🚨🚌
Waymo’s self-driving fleet is back in the spotlight—for all the wrong reasons. A federal probe found some cars ignored flashing stop signs on school buses. Because apparently, these robotaxis skipped kindergarten.
👉 Read how Waymo’s cars flunked basic safety 

4. Gen Z Is Renting... Everything 💃📦
From dresses to designer wine glasses to entire strollers, renting is in and owning is cringe. Clothing rental apps like Nuuly are booming, and “rent-core” is the new flex. Why own it when you can rent it, post it, and return it?
👉 Inside Gen Z’s $6B rental obsession

5. Influencers Are Winning. Your Bank Account? Not So Much 💸📱
Pilates. Lip stains. iPads. That $199 “summer body” program you bought after one TikTok. Influencer culture has turned social media into one long checkout aisle. And you might be buying your hobbies, not choosing them.
👉 The scary psychology of #TikTokMadeMeBuyIt

Strategy Deep Dive

Quick Hits 📰

• Paramount’s $108.4B Plot Twist 🎬
  It just launched a hostile bid to outbuy Netflix for Warner Bros. Discovery.
  👉 Who wins Hollywood’s biggest fight?

• NYT vs. Perplexity: Round 2 📰⚖️
  The Times sues Perplexity for allegedly copying its content to train AI.
  👉 Read why this lawsuit could shake the AI search world

• Claude Code Joins Slack 💻🤝
  Anthropic’s new Slack integration lets devs code from chat threads.
  👉 This could change how teams build software

• PepsiCo Slashes Products, Prices 🥤📉
  After pressure from Elliott, PepsiCo is cutting 20% of SKUs and lowering prices.
  👉 See what’s leaving the snack aisle

• Berkshire’s New Era Begins 🧓➡️👔
  Buffett steps down in January. Meet the execs shaping Berkshire 2.0.
  👉 Inside the Warren-to-Greg transition

• McDonald’s Will Grade You On “Value” 🍟💰
  Franchisees must now prove their prices are “value-driven.” Good luck.
  👉 Here’s what the new rules mean

• Humanoid Robot Market = $5T by 2050 🤖💥
  Morgan Stanley names the 25 companies set to dominate the robot future.
  👉 Is your portfolio ready for Optimus 2.0?

• AI Video Flood = Fake News Crisis 🎭📹
  Apps like Sora are making hyper-realistic fake videos—and millions believe them.
  👉 The scary rise of deepfake disinformation

• Wine War: Canada vs. California 🍷🔥
  Tariffs tanked U.S. wine exports… and gave Ontario vineyards a huge glow-up.
  👉 The geopolitics of Pinot Noir

• Millennials Are Hoarders. Boomers Are Done. 📦🏠
  Boomers are fed up with storing your old CDs, yearbooks, and exercise balls.
  👉 The family feud over basement junk

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