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Sydney Sweeney’s Novig "Just Sports" campaign is pure business strategy "dressed" in, very little, clothing!
⚠️ She is not just the face of the ad. ❗She is a strategic partner and equity holder. 📢 If the company scales the way prediction markets are currently scaling, she is on a clear path to becoming a multibillionaire actress. 👉 That is a smart move. 🎯 The campaign works because it does what advertising has always done: it targets a basic sex instinct. Sweeney is monetizing her image as a professional business owner with skin in the game, with a more "business oriented" and

Federico Carrasco
6 days ago2 min read


"...manufacture a crisis..."
So true Steve Eisman ! "But the idea that this whole terminator thing is nonsense. So I think some completely different is going on. And what I think is happening is that token maxing is over. The open weight models are taking big market share. I think these companies are very nervous. They realize that there are no moats around their business whatsoever, and they're trying to manufacture a crisis that will create regulation and that they think they can then manipulate to cre

Federico Carrasco
Sep 191 min read


The Frontier AI Hypocrisy !
Dario Amodei says "we must pace the frontier". Sam Altman nods. Go ahead and cut the act, the theater and the hypocrisy! Anthropic and OpenAI are the frontier. By market share, model capability, and self‑claimed recursive improvement, both companies already run a duopoly. If their unreleased (?) models are so risky, to slow down, fine, be responsible and just do it! ⚠️ Stop pretending you need regulators, antitrust exceptions, or "independent" evaluators tied to your own inv

Federico Carrasco
Sep 131 min read


Groundbreaking "innovation" from Apple: a phone that costs more than a solid laptop.
⚠️ It’s become painfully obvious that Apple stopped being an innovative company years ago and quietly transformed into a phone factory. The iPhone is their cash cow, their golden goose, their entire business model in a shiny aluminum shell. For fiscal years 2024 and 2025 (and already looking that way for 2026), the iPhone accounts for more than half of Apple’s total revenue. Ever since, Steve Jobs, the only guy who actually had ideas, "left the building", the strategy has bee

Federico Carrasco
Sep 91 min read


The Global Startup Ecosystem Index Report 2026, published by StartupBlink.
It is now available online. Here are the key findings: 🌟 Global Key Findings Growth Driving Force: The global startup ecosystem experienced an average growth rate of +10.3%, driven heavily by rapid technological evolution in Artificial Intelligence. Middle East & Africa Boom: MEA led all global regions with an impressive +20.2% growth. Riyadh stood out as the fastest-growing city in the global top 100, surging +117.6%. Top Ecosystem Champions: The USA (#1), UK (#2), and Isra

Federico Carrasco
Aug 312 min read


The AI Bubble: Capex, Circular Financing, Unsustainable Economics
The rapid escalation of capital expenditure on artificial intelligence infrastructure has produced the largest investment surge in modern history. Yet the underlying economics remain detached from demonstrated returns. Hyperscalers and AI labs are committing trillions in spending while generating limited, often unprofitable revenue. Circular financing, off-balance-sheet obligations, and intensifying competition from Chinese open-source models have created a structure vulnerab

Federico Carrasco
Aug 47 min read


South Korea, welcome to the wild world of Leverage!
"Smart Men Go Broke From Ladies, Liquor, And Leverage". Charlie Munger The Asian country just learned this lesson the hardest way possible. The KOSPI surged 116% to an all-time high by June 2026, fueled by AI chip mania around Samsung and SK Hynix. 😈 Then regulators greenlit single-stock leveraged ETFs in May, products promising 2x, 3x, even 5x daily returns. Retail investors piled in with margin loans, pushing total margin debt to ₩38.6 trillion. 92% of leveraged ETF holde

Federico Carrasco
Aug 22 min read


7 leading LLMs over 7 challenges
Over the past few days, I stress‑tested the world’s top LLMs using real engineering and business tasks, not trivia or creative prompts. I focused on the work I actually want to increase productivity, putting seven leading AI models through a rigorous seven‑challenge gauntlet. Python Code Generation, Clean, production-ready scripts under pressure CSS/HTML Debugging, Live rendering fixes, not just code dumps JavaScript Troubleshooting, Async bugs, memory leaks, and edge cases U

Federico Carrasco
Jul 292 min read


Claude is, by far, my top go-to legal LLM companion
I ran another real-world legal contract creation test: 5 LLMs, multiple source reference documents, and one objective: 👉 create a complete business contract. As an AI professional, I intentionally explore use cases outside my own areas of expertise. This is the best way to evaluate the true value proposition of these tools and understand where they can genuinely transform the way businesses operate. This time, I provided four reference documents covering: 📌 Technical speci

Federico Carrasco
Jul 151 min read
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