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No. 3: Being late to AI now costs sixteen times more than being early

Culture Pulse: 87. Amazon's paying 16x Microsoft's OpenAI price for no exclusivity. Netflix exits the WBD bid. Demna casts Elon's estranged daughter for Gucci. The cost of being late just became quantifiable. Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-02-27.html

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