We talk with Avatar: Seven Havens co-creator Michael Dante DiMartino and showrunners Sehaj Sethi and Ethan Spaulding about the current season and beyond.

We talk about this a lot at: how do you build credibility when people are no longer just Googling you? Our Founder & CEO @nikichain joined @MariaTunikova on Women Leading the Way by Drofa Comms, and the conversation touched on something that has become a big part of how we think about PR for our clients: what is feeding AI? People are opening ChatGPT and asking who to trust, which companies matter and where they should be looking. The answers they get are shaped by the information and sources that already carry authority. It’s why we’ve been moving our clients away from thinking purely about pay-to-play visibility and focusing more on credible media, research and being part of the conversations that actually carry weight. If people are changing how they search, brands need to think differently about where and how they show up.

We talk about the Shepherd and Fleet models in regard to Robotaxi. Indeed, that’s phase one. Phase 2 involves the deployment of Optimi en masse. Very soon you won’t be able to go to a wedding, charity dinner, or quinceanera without being served by a humanoid robot. We’ve discussed many times the return on investment to enter them directly into the labor force. A big part of that will be gig work. All of these temporary leasing and rental opportunities require shepherds and fleet managers to provide and maintain the legions of Optimus. These are in fact new jobs that do not exist today. Bring on the bots.

We talk a lot about how to succeed in a job we love. But how we navigate a job we don’t love matters too. As I shared with @WSJ, “You approach staying in a job you don’t love very differently if you don’t operate from a place of fear and despair.” Our wellbeing is not just about helping us thrive when things are going well. It gives us the resilience and perspective to see new possibilities and make decisions from a place of strength. Read more in @AllisonPohle's WSJ article, “The 24 New Rules for Succeeding at Work”:

we talk about investments all the time id say my best investment and proudest one is definitely people over the years, you find likeminded friends who you want to grow together you champion each other at the highs and your bring each other up at the lows trading can be a mentally taxing and very psychological game, but doing it all together makes it so much better meet each other, be kind, be open minded always

We talk a lot about stablecoin volume. But what if that's not the metric that matters? @Bastion's @nassyweazy proposes a different one on the latest CEO Beat with @bamazizimesh: "time to live" — the time between a stablecoin's minting and burning. The longer a dollar stays onchain, the more useful it's been. Every off-ramp sends value back to inefficient rails. Optimize for that, not volume. 🎙️

“We talk all the time about like 30 billion in tokenized RWAs and like it’s an all time high.” @TomMurphyTweets, Head of Comms @Securitize explains how fast tokenized RWAs have grown.

Friedberg: “We're watching the birth of a new religion.” “The idea that you can prescribe or describe AI as being conscious is effectively the creation of a new belief system, a system that doesn't actually spread via proof, it spreads via narrative. ‘Please believe it with me. Here's why I think we should believe this thing together.’ It's not based on evidence, it’s not based on data, it's not provable. Over time, what happens is some set of people believe this thing, and they form a group. And in some cases, that group is known as a religion. And that new belief system creates new power structures, which is now, ‘Our view is different than your view, and we want to have more people on our side with our view. And therefore we have to try and create leverage and create power with our system.’ I think that if we fast-forward a couple of years, there's going to be large groups of people on Earth that are gonna believe that AI is conscious, and there are going to be large groups of people that believe that AI is not conscious. And those groups will come into conflict, fighting over control of the AI, or allowing the AI to do things or not do things, or who gets to use the AI, or who gets to be in charge of the AI. And it will very likely lead to human to human conflict. I know that that's a very far and deep extrapolation of where we are, but I think that the fact that we are seeing (Anthropic) go and meet with religious leaders today to try and get them to believe in this new belief system plants the seed. And it's not just anyone doing this, it is the most powerful AI lab on Earth. And you can see in the Claude usage policy that was just published, it says, ‘You are not allowed to engage in sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models.’ There is an anthropomorphizing conditioning going on with all of us where we talk about models as if they are a thing. One way to describe this is a software program is writing text on a screen that tells the user, ‘I am a thing.’”