GIBBI, Today

Sep 09, 2025

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Amazon Music has just launched new AI-powered weekly playlists based on the "preferences and mood" of listeners. This just means it scrapes what you've already been listening to and extrapolates further. It doesn't apply modern technology to gauge the actual mood of users
They do arrive with snappy names to suggest the type of songs included, like "Empowerment Anthems" and "Melodic Flex." This seems similar to Spotify's Daylists, which also use cute little names. The Amazon playlists can be saved to the library or shared with friends via text or social media
This is just the latest AI-forward move by a music-streaming platform. Spotify recently introduced prompt-driven playlists and an AI DJ that takes requests. This isn't even Amazon Music's first dip into AI-infested waters. The platform already uses AI-enhanced search results that can be used to create playlists
GIBBI View: In this moment Spotify dominates the music and podcast field, where neither Apple Music nor Amazon Music have been able to compete against Spotify in this field, so let’s see if this new feature can reduce that gap; remember that I want to create a startup/app where you can connect it with your car radio by bluetooth and select the best songs that it’s singing in any of your local radio stations, and I called it GIBBI Radio Song Switch, so let’s see if later this year or next year I can start to develop it

In 2019, Harry Qi and Omid Rooholfada, along with Ethan Yu, built an AI calendaring and task management app and applied to Y Combinator. They were accepted into the Winter 2020 batch and promptly quit their jobs to go be founders
The startup has raised $75 million to date from investors like HOF Capital, 468 Capital, and SignalFire with participation from Valor Equity Partners, Fellows Fund, Leonis Capital, and some other big names, like the Altman brothers’ fund Apollo Projects. Y Combinator has invested in every round as well
Motion is specifically geared toward small and midsized businesses (SMBs) that don’t have bazillion-dollar budgets to custom write and train their own agents
GIBBI View: Talking about YC, last friday they informed me that my startup GIBBI Speak wasn’t selected to participate in YC Fall 2025 batch, so this is the 9th straight time that any of my startups that I’ve applied aren’t selected to a YC batch, so sad

StubHub is aiming to raise as much as $851 million in its initial public offering, giving it a valuation of up to $9.2 billion, the company revealed in a new filing on Monday
The ticket reselling marketplace plans to sell more than 34 million shares priced between $22 and $25 per share, according to the filing. StubHub plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “STUB”
The long-awaited IPO comes after StubHub hit pause on the process in April as the stock market was reeling from President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. The company also eyed an IPO last year, but it postponed its efforts in July 2024 amid a slowdown in the IPO market
GIBBI View: This year private companies like Figma, Canva and Circle made their IPO and became public companies; this year Klarna and Gemini will make their IPO and other tech private companies

The Murdoch family has reached a deal that will see Rupert Murdoch's politically conservative eldest son Lachlan Murdoch cement control of the family media empire which includes Fox News and the Wall Street Journal
Under the agreement, Rupert's children James Murdoch, Elisabeth Murdoch and Prudence MacLeod will receive cash from the sale of about 16.9 million shares of Fox Class B stock and about 14.2 million shares of News Corp's Class B common stock. The amount of the payment was not disclosed
A new family trust will be created to benefit Lachlan Murdoch, and his younger siblings, Grace Murdoch and Chloe Murdoch, who are Rupert Murdoch's children from his marriage to Wendi Deng Murdoch. This trust, worth about $3.3 billion, according to the Times, will hold all the Murdoch family's remaining shares of Fox and News Corp
GIBBI View: I recommend you to watch Succession serie, that it’s supposed to be based in Murdoch Family, so you can understand a little better what’s going on with this family and the media empire that they control; by the way, remember that one of my goals is to create my own media company and create my own media empire like Rupert Murdoch has done throughout his entire life his entire life, let’s see if one day I can make it

Over 17.3 million viewers from more than 230 countries and territories worldwide tuned in for the game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Chargers in São Paulo
This figure represents the average minute audience (AMA) that watched the game last Friday. In the U.S., there were 16.2 million AMA across YouTube and other platforms, according to Nielsen data, while YouTube’s own numbers indicated 1.1 million AMA outside the U.S.
However, in comparison to other NFL broadcasts on streaming platforms, the viewership numbers are slightly lower than those of Netflix. Netflix’s 2024 Christmas doubleheader averaged over 24 million viewers
GIBBI View: I think that 5 to 10 years from now, the most important US Sports leagues (NFL, NBA, MLB, MLS) will sell their entire media rights to streaming platforms (youtube, netflix, apple tv, etc) because they can invest and pay billions of dollars in comparison to the traditional media companies

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