Meta will someday be acquired by an AI company (largest-company-killer scenario)

Meta will someday be acquired by an AI company (largest-company-killer scenario) | enjoy this moment now because we could look at a story a few years from now where it's the largest AI company fill-in- thelank category killer acquiring humanity's largest category killer.

enjoy this moment now because we could look at a story a few years from now where it's the largest AI company fill-in- thelank category killer acquiring humanity's largest category killer.

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  "context": "this was a bit of an aqua hire of the team behind Maltbook. But I I think one has to to find a little bit of irony that humanity's largest social networking company acquires the largest AI agent social network. and enjoy this moment now because we could look at a story a few years from now where it's the largest AI company fill-in- thelank category killer acquiring humanity's largest category killer.",
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