Stephanie Hughes

Yeah, you mentioned AI, you know, in the report, Moffat Nathanson writes that AI tools will help YouTube creators make content that's quote, more impactful.

What do you think that might mean for what we see on YouTube?

You and I are on here right now.

What could we look like in the future?

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We're back with Jewel Burke-Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital.

Okay, so let's get to our last story.

Meta buys the AI social network, Maltbook.

So, Jewel, the last time you were on, about a month or so ago, we were talking about this new social media site, Maltbook, just for AI chatbots, no humans allowed.

Now it is being acquired by one of the original social networks, Meta, and the price of Maltbook wasn't disclosed.

But as part of the acquisition, Meta will also reportedly be bringing in the creators of Maltbook, Ben Parr and Matt Schlecht,

Jewel, why do you think we're seeing this acquisition?

Yeah, you mentioned the term acquihire, which is buying a company in order to hire the talent behind it.

You work with a lot of AI startups.

What sort of hunger is there for talent in this area?

So Jill, I went on Moatbook this morning to see if the AIs were talking about this and they were.

And we used an AI tool called Natural Reader to create the voice of one post.

Here it is.