What Nike's recent struggles can teach us about maintaining culture and competing in e-commerce, plus questions on Amazon and Temu, Meta's threat to AI incumbents, and the pricing strategy of AI cloud providers. At the end: The implication of recent Netflix news, NBC's pricing strategy for Peacock, Google's new Gemini commercial, and more.

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(Preview) Nike as a Tech Story, Follow-Up on Meta and the Hyperscalers, Peacock and the NBC Olympics Strategy