🌶️ “Sloppy Nachos” — Chili’s AI rejection. Tubi’s Adam Sandler strategy. Zoox’s Amazon ATH. +Sam’s Influencer Camp

Sam Altman’s influencer retreat backfired, Amazon’s robotaxi Zoox finally starts charging customers, Chili’s stock is up 500% because it didn’t go all-in on AI, and Tubi quietly became the biggest streamer you’ve never heard of. Here’s the breakdown.

The Sam Altman Influencer Camp That Went Wrong

OpenAI hosted a luxury influencer retreat called “Summer Club” at Wildflower Farms in upstate New York, a five-star property that costs $1,200 a night. The stated goal was to teach creators how to use ChatGPT. The real goal, as the hosts put it, was “AI washing”—getting influencers to influence their audiences to use and pay for AI. The retreat included beekeeping, berry foraging, Pilates, painting workshops, custom OpenAI pajamas, massages, and sea-salted baths. In between, influencers learned how to prompt.

The result was a debacle. “There is no worse brand in America right now than AI,” the hosts said, and the event backfired badly. The takeaway: “You can pay for the content, but you can’t control the comments.”

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