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Now let's get into today's newsletter for

Thursday, March 12th, 26. All right, let's kick things off with today's deep dive. And I want

you to stay with me on this one because it starts with a trend you've definitely seen and ends

somewhere completely different. You know the thing everyone's doing right now? Asking AI to turn them into a cartoon character,

a Pixar version of themselves,

a video game avatar, a studio Ghibli painting,

and look, it's fun, it's cute.

I'm not knocking it.

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