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https://www.marketing-interactive.com/chagee-opens-first-family-friendly-store-in-singapore-at-suntec-city It was an outing. Their Agents did the everyday shopping of course and even when they did input, at Christmas for instance, it was all “online” as they liked to call it. But when they had a family they wanted a family trip. The mall was just right. It… Read the rest

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/01/the-pitt-hbo-max-season-2-tv-review/685570 It was a throwback, but it had gone, what they call in the show, “viral”. And it was a passive. It was just something to watch. It was linear, a narrative you couldn’t change or play or regenerate. People had seen them in museums, talked about them in history… Read the rest

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-ice-shooting-renee-good/685571 It was the new recruit’s first “event”. The new recruit wasn’t surprised they were caught up in an “event”. The situation was volatile and The Company’s teams were on the frontline. The new recruit was also expecting the request. Teams paired new officers with experienced ones and they had… Read the rest

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/01/09/iran_russia_ukraine_internet_outages/ He’d shut down the networks of course. His agents and Agents were on the streets and in the streams, “policing” the movements. They were listening, watching and “engaging” with the protesters’ stories. His advisors were encouraging him to shut down the protestors’ Agents as well. They were not networked… Read the rest

https://www.adweek.com/agencies/havas-will-use-ai-to-redefine-what-agency-work-is-worth/ Her colleagues sometimes joked that one day there wouldn’t be a human in the room. But there still was. She didn’t like real meetings, she’d rather send her Agent but the Company made a point of having “blood in the room”. Clients liked it. It made them think they… Read the rest

https://digiday.com/marketing/crisis-culture-and-costs-the-new-reality-of-the-modern-cmo He struggled for an analogy. He was like the brand’s parent: raising it. Maybe he was its guard: protecting it. Maybe the brand was like a novel with him as the narrator? He played with these thoughts as he sat down to work. He was human. At least that… Read the rest

https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nvidia-announces-dlss-45-at-ces-2026-053000128.html Humans still went to the show. They didn’t need to of course. Their Agents were doing the research and deals behind the scenes. But it was a few days away and, since the show was back in the real world now, a chance to travel irl. At the bar,… Read the rest

https://gizmodo.com/the-stranger-things-brothers-keep-explaining-why-things-ended-like-that-2000705129 She was not happy. It wasn’t right. The series had been part of her life for years. She watched the passives of course, she’d played the immersives, owned the avatars… all of it. She’s been a fan. She’d grown up with the show. And so that ending was wrong,… Read the rest

https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/california-introduces-a-one-stop-shop-to-delete-your-online-data-footprint-173102064.html Not everyone did it of course. Some were scared too, some were ideologically opposed to the whole idea, some still believed that one day their number would come up and they’d get that over in a lifetime deal or offer. Some simply didn’t care. For those who chose to… Read the rest

https://www.engadget.com/home/kitchen-tech/ges-new-smart-refrigerator-automates-grocery-shopping-with-a-barcode-scanner-and-instacart-194326610.html There were other reset days during the year: ones prompted by his employer’s People Agent, ones from his doctor or his insurance company, wherever his data showed the need for a “Resolution”. But he liked the New Year resolution. It felt like a tradition. He remembered his dad joking… Read the rest