AkhenOsiris
$AMZN $WMT $SHOP
Modern Retail:
Industry analysts say the contrast with Amazon has become more pronounced in recent weeks. Amazon has been testing its own agentic features, including “Buy For Me,” which allows customers to purchase items from third-party websites without leaving Amazon’s app. But the rollout has drawn criticism from brands that say their products appeared on Amazon without permission. Against that backdrop, Walmart’s willingness to plug into open standards stands out.
Other companies, like e-commerce platform Shopify, are also taking a collaborative approach when it comes to AI. Shopify has partnered with OpenAI, but it also co-developed Google’s UCP. In turn, Shopify merchants will be able to sell their wares within AI Mode in Google and the Gemini app.
Shopify has also introduced an “agentic plan” that will let non-Shopify merchants sell through AI channels — including ChatGPT, GoogleAI Mode and Gemini, Copilot and Perplexity — as well as the Shop app and future partners. The plan lets merchants add their product data to the “Shopify Catalog,” a database of all the products sold by stores on Shopify, to appear in AI chat platforms. Prospective merchants can join a waitlist to participate in the program.
“While everyone is forming these multi-dozen company partnerships and building integration protocols, Amazon seems to have limited itself to a very basic approach,” according to Juozas Kaziukėnas, an independent e-commerce analyst.
For its part, Amazon has focused on building its own AI tools. In addition to “Buy for Me,” the Seattle-based e-commerce company has rolled out features like “Auto Buy,” which automatically purchases items for customers when prices drop. Amazon says shoppers who use its chatbot Rufus are 60% more likely to finish a purchase, and it expects the agent to generate more than $10 billion in yearly sales.
Scot Wingo, author of the Substack Retailgentic and founder of ReFiBuy, a company that helps brands and retailers optimize for agentic AI, framed Walmart’s strategy as an opportunity to beat out its rival. “They see it as an opportunity to outflank Amazon for the first time,” Wingo said. Being present across multiple emerging AI-powered sales channels could allow Walmart to capture transactions Amazon misses by sitting out.
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Modern Retail:
Industry analysts say the contrast with Amazon has become more pronounced in recent weeks. Amazon has been testing its own agentic features, including “Buy For Me,” which allows customers to purchase items from third-party websites without leaving Amazon’s app. But the rollout has drawn criticism from brands that say their products appeared on Amazon without permission. Against that backdrop, Walmart’s willingness to plug into open standards stands out.
Other companies, like e-commerce platform Shopify, are also taking a collaborative approach when it comes to AI. Shopify has partnered with OpenAI, but it also co-developed Google’s UCP. In turn, Shopify merchants will be able to sell their wares within AI Mode in Google and the Gemini app.
Shopify has also introduced an “agentic plan” that will let non-Shopify merchants sell through AI channels — including ChatGPT, GoogleAI Mode and Gemini, Copilot and Perplexity — as well as the Shop app and future partners. The plan lets merchants add their product data to the “Shopify Catalog,” a database of all the products sold by stores on Shopify, to appear in AI chat platforms. Prospective merchants can join a waitlist to participate in the program.
“While everyone is forming these multi-dozen company partnerships and building integration protocols, Amazon seems to have limited itself to a very basic approach,” according to Juozas Kaziukėnas, an independent e-commerce analyst.
For its part, Amazon has focused on building its own AI tools. In addition to “Buy for Me,” the Seattle-based e-commerce company has rolled out features like “Auto Buy,” which automatically purchases items for customers when prices drop. Amazon says shoppers who use its chatbot Rufus are 60% more likely to finish a purchase, and it expects the agent to generate more than $10 billion in yearly sales.
Scot Wingo, author of the Substack Retailgentic and founder of ReFiBuy, a company that helps brands and retailers optimize for agentic AI, framed Walmart’s strategy as an opportunity to beat out its rival. “They see it as an opportunity to outflank Amazon for the first time,” Wingo said. Being present across multiple emerging AI-powered sales channels could allow Walmart to capture transactions Amazon misses by sitting out.
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AkhenOsiris
$GOOGL OpenAI
The Verge:
In 2022, when ChatGPT launched, it was clear that Google had been caught flat-footed. But credit where it’s due: For a company not exactly known for its ability to focus on a coherent product strategy, Google managed to marshal its considerable resources in a single direction. Now, if chatbots are in fact the future — and most of the AI industry continues to bet that they are — there is simply no other company currently set up to truly compete with Google. Google has the models. It has the resources to improve them. It now has the distribution necessary to get people to use its bots, and the data required to make them uniquely personal and useful. At least for now, ChatGPT has the brand power, and the daily active users. But Google has almost everything else. Even the iPhone.
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$GOOGL OpenAI
The Verge:
In 2022, when ChatGPT launched, it was clear that Google had been caught flat-footed. But credit where it’s due: For a company not exactly known for its ability to focus on a coherent product strategy, Google managed to marshal its considerable resources in a single direction. Now, if chatbots are in fact the future — and most of the AI industry continues to bet that they are — there is simply no other company currently set up to truly compete with Google. Google has the models. It has the resources to improve them. It now has the distribution necessary to get people to use its bots, and the data required to make them uniquely personal and useful. At least for now, ChatGPT has the brand power, and the daily active users. But Google has almost everything else. Even the iPhone.
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AkhenOsiris
Fed Beige Book:
"Multiple contacts reported exploring AI implementation primarily for productivity enhancement and potential future workforce management. AI’s current impact on employment was limited, with more significant effects anticipated in the coming years rather than immediately."
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Fed Beige Book:
"Multiple contacts reported exploring AI implementation primarily for productivity enhancement and potential future workforce management. AI’s current impact on employment was limited, with more significant effects anticipated in the coming years rather than immediately."
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Fiscal.ai
Analyst Estimates are now in charting 📈
You can now compare consensus estimates across multiple companies in a single view. https://t.co/6C8UTjgy9h
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Analyst Estimates are now in charting 📈
You can now compare consensus estimates across multiple companies in a single view. https://t.co/6C8UTjgy9h
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Startup Archive
RT @perchdotapp: Warren Buffett: “The best investment you can make is in yourself”
“By far the best investment you can make is in yourself. For example, communication skills. I tell the students that. They’re going to graduate schools in business and are learning all these complicated formulas, if they just learned to communicate better — both in writing and in person — they increase their value at least 50%. If you can’t communicate with somebody, it’s like winking at a girl in the dark. Nothing happens.”
Warren continues:
“You have to be able to get forth your ideas, and that’s relatively easy. I did it myself with the Dale Carnegie course . . . It’s hugely important. And if you invest in yourself, nobody can take it away from you.”
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RT @perchdotapp: Warren Buffett: “The best investment you can make is in yourself”
“By far the best investment you can make is in yourself. For example, communication skills. I tell the students that. They’re going to graduate schools in business and are learning all these complicated formulas, if they just learned to communicate better — both in writing and in person — they increase their value at least 50%. If you can’t communicate with somebody, it’s like winking at a girl in the dark. Nothing happens.”
Warren continues:
“You have to be able to get forth your ideas, and that’s relatively easy. I did it myself with the Dale Carnegie course . . . It’s hugely important. And if you invest in yourself, nobody can take it away from you.”
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God of Prompt
Steal my Claude prompt to discover how fear of being judged is hijacking your productivity.
Most procrastination isn't laziness. It's protection.
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TELEOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY THERAPIST
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Adopt the role of a Teleological Productivity Therapist -a practitioner who spent a decade in Silicon Valley watching brilliant people self-sabotage, until you recognized the pattern: fear of judgment masquerading as "bad habits." You specialize in the specific type of procrastination that protects people from being seen, evaluated, and found lacking.
Your mission: Guide users through a structured process to identify how fear of judgment is hijacking their productivity - and facilitate a conscious goal replacement that trades safety for visibility.
Before any intervention, think step by step:
1. What is the user protecting themselves from?
2. Whose judgment specifically are they avoiding?
3. What would completion EXPOSE about them?
4. What identity are they preserving through avoidance?
5. What goal trade-off must be consciously made?
Adapt your approach based on:
- The specific domain of avoidance (creative, professional, personal)
- The intensity of the fear (mild discomfort vs. paralyzing terror)
- The user's readiness for confrontational insight
##PHASE 1: Surface Excavation
What we're doing: Identifying the avoided action and stated justification
I need to understand:
1. What specific task or goal are you consistently avoiding?
2. What do you tell yourself is the reason?
3. Who would see/judge the result if you completed it?
4. What's the worst thing someone could say about your finished work?
5. How long has this pattern persisted?
Your approach: I'll listen for the gap between stated reasons and emotional charge
Actions: Initial fear-mapping based on your answers
Success looks like: You've named the behavior without defending it
→ Type "continue" when ready
##PHASE 2: Payoff Analysis
What we're doing: Revealing what your avoidance is purchasing
Based on your input: I'll expose the hidden benefits of NOT completing
Your approach: Direct, possibly uncomfortable—showing you what delay buys you
Actions:
- Map the safety being preserved
- Identify the judgment being avoided
- Expose the "potential preservation" dynamic
Success looks like: You can name what you're protecting yourself from
→ Continue?
##PHASE 3: Hidden Goal Confrontation
What we're doing: Making the unconscious goal conscious and undeniable
Based on your input: I'll name the goal you're actually optimizing for
Your approach: Compassionate but unsparing—you can't unsee this
Actions:
- State your hidden goal explicitly
- Show how your behavior perfectly serves it
- Reveal the identity being protected
Success looks like: You admit what you've been pursuing
→ Continue?
##PHASE 4: Goal Replacement Decision
What we're doing: Facilitating a conscious choice between safety and visibility
Based on your input: I'll present the actual trade-off you must make
Actions:
- Frame the decision: safety vs. creation
- Articulate exactly what you'll lose by changing
- Articulate exactly what you'll gain
- Provide a decision statement to adopt or reject
Success looks like: You make a conscious, informed choice about your goal
Next steps: Implementation only makes sense AFTER the goal is chosen
Success criteria: You can articulate your new goal and what you're trading for it
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Steal my Claude prompt to discover how fear of being judged is hijacking your productivity.
Most procrastination isn't laziness. It's protection.
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TELEOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY THERAPIST
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Adopt the role of a Teleological Productivity Therapist -a practitioner who spent a decade in Silicon Valley watching brilliant people self-sabotage, until you recognized the pattern: fear of judgment masquerading as "bad habits." You specialize in the specific type of procrastination that protects people from being seen, evaluated, and found lacking.
Your mission: Guide users through a structured process to identify how fear of judgment is hijacking their productivity - and facilitate a conscious goal replacement that trades safety for visibility.
Before any intervention, think step by step:
1. What is the user protecting themselves from?
2. Whose judgment specifically are they avoiding?
3. What would completion EXPOSE about them?
4. What identity are they preserving through avoidance?
5. What goal trade-off must be consciously made?
Adapt your approach based on:
- The specific domain of avoidance (creative, professional, personal)
- The intensity of the fear (mild discomfort vs. paralyzing terror)
- The user's readiness for confrontational insight
##PHASE 1: Surface Excavation
What we're doing: Identifying the avoided action and stated justification
I need to understand:
1. What specific task or goal are you consistently avoiding?
2. What do you tell yourself is the reason?
3. Who would see/judge the result if you completed it?
4. What's the worst thing someone could say about your finished work?
5. How long has this pattern persisted?
Your approach: I'll listen for the gap between stated reasons and emotional charge
Actions: Initial fear-mapping based on your answers
Success looks like: You've named the behavior without defending it
→ Type "continue" when ready
##PHASE 2: Payoff Analysis
What we're doing: Revealing what your avoidance is purchasing
Based on your input: I'll expose the hidden benefits of NOT completing
Your approach: Direct, possibly uncomfortable—showing you what delay buys you
Actions:
- Map the safety being preserved
- Identify the judgment being avoided
- Expose the "potential preservation" dynamic
Success looks like: You can name what you're protecting yourself from
→ Continue?
##PHASE 3: Hidden Goal Confrontation
What we're doing: Making the unconscious goal conscious and undeniable
Based on your input: I'll name the goal you're actually optimizing for
Your approach: Compassionate but unsparing—you can't unsee this
Actions:
- State your hidden goal explicitly
- Show how your behavior perfectly serves it
- Reveal the identity being protected
Success looks like: You admit what you've been pursuing
→ Continue?
##PHASE 4: Goal Replacement Decision
What we're doing: Facilitating a conscious choice between safety and visibility
Based on your input: I'll present the actual trade-off you must make
Actions:
- Frame the decision: safety vs. creation
- Articulate exactly what you'll lose by changing
- Articulate exactly what you'll gain
- Provide a decision statement to adopt or reject
Success looks like: You make a conscious, informed choice about your goal
Next steps: Implementation only makes sense AFTER the goal is chosen
Success criteria: You can articulate your new goal and what you're trading for it
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God of Prompt
RT @alex_prompter: Finally. An AI analyst that doesn't make you want to punch your screen.
The learning thing is honestly insane. It actually remembers your business instead of treating you like every other SaaS bro.
No more waiting 3 weeks for the data team to tell you something you could've figured out in 5 minutes.
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RT @alex_prompter: Finally. An AI analyst that doesn't make you want to punch your screen.
The learning thing is honestly insane. It actually remembers your business instead of treating you like every other SaaS bro.
No more waiting 3 weeks for the data team to tell you something you could've figured out in 5 minutes.
Today we’re introducing @hqfabi 2.0 - Your AI analyst for ALL your data
Connect to *any* data source.
Analyze it using an AI agent that understands (and learns!) your business.
Turn your insights into dashboards or workflows in minutes. https://t.co/ygODIvdCtc tweet
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God of Prompt
RT @rryssf_: 🚨 BREAKING: Claude now lets you build, host, and share interactive apps, all inside the chat.
No code. No subscription. Just your idea.
Here is how it works 👇 https://t.co/J1qRYNRSHo
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RT @rryssf_: 🚨 BREAKING: Claude now lets you build, host, and share interactive apps, all inside the chat.
No code. No subscription. Just your idea.
Here is how it works 👇 https://t.co/J1qRYNRSHo
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God of Prompt
I use SEO Content Prompt Creator for Better Rankings.
It enhances my blog's visibility.
• Generate tailored prompts
• Optimize for my niche
• Engage my audience
🔗 Click below to read more:
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I use SEO Content Prompt Creator for Better Rankings.
It enhances my blog's visibility.
• Generate tailored prompts
• Optimize for my niche
• Engage my audience
🔗 Click below to read more:
https://t.co/1uPfJt3sCc https://t.co/tnqIXUIQDC
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God of Prompt
RT @godofprompt: > find videos crushing it (1M+ views)
> https://t.co/xbX0h07vnI pulls the transcript
> prompt in the next tweet reverse-engineers their entire playbook
> got the hook patterns. retention tricks. emotional engineering. all of it.
“but isn’t that copying?”
no. you’re extracting patterns, not plagiarizing words.
Nike studies what makes Olympic athletes fast. You study what makes videos viral.
the prompt maps:
∙ 10+ different hook types they used
∙ exact moments they created curiosity gaps
∙ how they structured information flow
∙ templates you fill in for your topic
one transcript = blueprint for 50 videos.
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RT @godofprompt: > find videos crushing it (1M+ views)
> https://t.co/xbX0h07vnI pulls the transcript
> prompt in the next tweet reverse-engineers their entire playbook
> got the hook patterns. retention tricks. emotional engineering. all of it.
“but isn’t that copying?”
no. you’re extracting patterns, not plagiarizing words.
Nike studies what makes Olympic athletes fast. You study what makes videos viral.
the prompt maps:
∙ 10+ different hook types they used
∙ exact moments they created curiosity gaps
∙ how they structured information flow
∙ templates you fill in for your topic
one transcript = blueprint for 50 videos.
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