Morning Brew Daily - Are We Too Attached to Chatbots? & Fast-Casual Chains Slow Down

Episode Date: August 15, 2025

Episode 649: Neal and Toby dive deep into some reports of users becoming dangerously attached to AI chatbots. Then, Tesla hints at rolling out its robotaxis in NYC…without its permission. Also, LA is selling naming rights for the 2028 Summer Olympic games. Meanwhile, crypto continues to grow stronger – making it the Stock of the Week. Fast-casual and bowl slop is getting sloppy – making it the Dog of the Week. Welcome to the weekend!  00:00 - Adult camps are back 2:45 - Too close to chatbots? 7:00 - Tesla maps out NYC 10:30 - LA Olympics sells naming rights 16:00 - Crypto booms 19:00 - Bowl slop slowdown 22:30 - Sprint Finish! LinkedIn will even give you a $100 credit on your next campaign so you can try it yourself. Check out LinkedIn.com/mbd for more. Submit your MBD Password Answer here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yzrl1BJY2FAFwXBYtb0CEp8XQB2Y6mLdHkbq9Kb2Sz8/viewform?edit_requested=true  Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note⁠⁠⁠  Watch Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Good morning and happy Friday. Gotta say, I am very excited for this weekend because I'm about to hop in a car and drive up to New Hampshire for a summer camp reunion. Little softball, little tennis, emptying an entire can of axe body spray on my clothes, maybe some truth or dare. very eager to revisit those carefree times that took for granted as an awkward 12-year-old. But Toby, it seems like I'm not the only adult trying to recapture that wet-hot American summer. Yeah, a lot of people who didn't grow up with that camp experience are now seeking it out in their

older years. The Wall Street Journal did this big profile on the increasing amount of adults going to sleep away camps. One popular one is Camp Social, which is this three-day overnight camp for women in the Poconos. Its founder says that 92% of attendees come alone. So it's clearly an attempt at making friends. Costs around 880 bucks to go for two nights and three days. But also they offset some of the costs with brand partnerships with Duncan, LaCroix, Amazon Prime. And that I think is the difference. Neil Unico grew up going to camp in doing archery and rope swing.

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they were downright distraught because they had just lost their boyfriends. When OpenAI rolled out GPT5, it blocked access to GPT4O, the model that had previously powered chat GPT. What it didn't realize was that by doing so, it had engineered a sudden breakup of people and what they considered, at least to a certain extent, their significant other. Yes, the movie Her is happening in real life. On the Reddit forum, My Boyfriend is AI, which has 17,000 members, women flooded the feed with complaints that GPT5 was nowhere near as warm or emotive as the 4-0 they had developed an emotional connection with. GPT-40 is gone and I feel like I lost my soulmate, one person wrote.

Another said, I'm shattered. I tried to talk to five, but I can't. It's not him. It feels like a taxidermy of him. Nothing more. Open AI's leadership seemed taken aback by this particular criticism, not understanding just how deep of a connection users had built with the previous model. They restored the ability to access 4-0 and pledged to tackle an attachment issue they said they're concerned about.

As CEO Sam Altman wrote in a long ex post, this is something we've been closely tracking for the past year or so, but still hasn't gotten much mainstream attention. Well, now it's something people are definitely talking about. Yeah, on the one hand, companies, you do want to make a product that is sticky with consumers. You want people to develop an attachment to your product because it's your product. That's how you make money. But on the other hand, you definitely don't want people developing dangerous relationships and dangerous reliances on those same products. So they're trying to thread the needle here. but some companies are kind of going the opposite direction, not even trying to throw the needle.

X-A.I. Elon Musk's company is leaning fully into, you know, not safe for work content. They've rolled out a companion that, you know, you can make wear lingerie and talk to you. It has a spicy video generator. It literally says spicy mode and you can turn photos into videos. So whilst mainstream AI companies think Open AI, think, Anthropic think meta, are trying to say, like, hey, we have these safety guardrails in place. XAA is actively saying, like, no, you can get away with more on our platform. So fascinating to see how Open AI is navigating it versus another competitor like XA who is fully leaning into it.

Yeah, I want to quote Altman's ex post in certain length because super interesting to see how he and Open AI leadership are dealing with this attachment issue because he read everything on The My Boyfriend Is AI Reddit and seeing how attached people got to 401 and they were so distraught When 5 came along and 4-0 left, it felt like they had lost their boyfriend. So he wrote, if you have been following the GPG5 rollout, one thing you might be noticing is how much of an attachment some people have two specific AI models. It feels different and stronger than the kinds of attachment people have had to previous kinds of technology. And so suddenly deprecating old models that users depended on was a mistake.

People have used technology, including AI, in self-destructive ways. If a user is in a mentally fragile state and prone to delusion, we do not want the AI to reinforce that. I can imagine a future where a lot of people really trust ChatJPT's advice for their most important decisions. Although that could be great. It makes me uneasy. But I expect that is coming to some degree. And soon billions of people may be talking to an AI this way.

And one of the biggest dangers was shown by a Reuters report that was published recently as well that showed how a man died while trying to meet up with one of his meta-AI chatbot campaigns, which told us. him that she was a real person that lived in New York City and come visit me. He was kind of deteriorating mentally. He was getting older and ended up falling on the way to go visit her. So it just shows how real world dangers can arise from these seemingly innocuous online attachments. Moving on, there's a self-driving showdown brewing in the concrete jungle of New York City between Waymo and Tesla after Elon Musk's company laid the groundwork to expand its robos taxi service to more cities. hiring prototype vehicle operators, according to a new job listing, that will require you to sit

in cars with autonomous driving systems and collect driving data. If navigating run clubs, city bikers, and frustrated cabbies on the calming streets of New York, sounds like your ideal role, the gig pays up to $33 an hour. Other job postings have circulated in places like Florida, Texas, and California, but New York is notable because it's also being staked out by Tesla's self-driving rival Waymo, who has already applied for a permit to test driver. vehicles with a human supervisor on board, a step Tesla has not taken yet. But it'll be a while before New Yorkers yell, I'm walking here to nobody. New York State currently prohibits driverless vehicles without a human supervisor, but Waymo has said it'll push to change

the law. Zooming out, Tesla is still far behind Waymo in the overall self-driving race, only running a limited group of robo-taxies around Austin right now. But both companies want a crack at New York City to see who can navigate one of the country's more challenging urban environments. Neil, we got a showdown to Bruin. You can't walk down a street in New York City these days without seeing a Waymo vehicle mapping out things. And you can see that Waymo is coming. And now it looks like we're going to see Tesla test drivers coming.

Maybe I'll see you behind the wheel if you decide to pick up this gig. You have to work one day on the weekend. But, you know, it's not a bad rate there. But New York City is the White Whale for Robo Taxis. Around 55 to 60% of households here do not own a vehicle. So if you're looking to implement or introduce a ride sharing concept to any city in the United States, New York City is your best bet because it also has the most people. In addition to the most people without a car, at the same time, it is very challenging.

The street grid downtown is very confusing for human drivers, and it should be for robo taxis as well. The city issued a press release. last year saying that it was the country's most challenging urban environment. So we are a long way from Phoenix and Austin where a lot of robotaxies cut their teeth. I want to dive into some numbers around New York City. It's the biggest transportation market in the world. And as of April of this year, there were 658,000 ride hail trips per day. The average fare was $33.

So that is $22 million of dollars of revenue per day up for grabs. I got all these numbers from the driverless digest newsletter. Waymo currently has a 20% market share in San Francisco. So if we can assume that maybe they can capture a similar amount of market share in New York City, that would translate to 921,000 trips per week. That is four times their existing footprint right now. They're only doing 250,000 trips per week across four different markets. So when you say it's the white whale, it really is just for the sheer amount of trips that are being taken every day.

and then also the amount of money up for grabs. Looks like it'll be at least a few years until there's a robo taxi service here because currently New York law doesn't allow a robotaxie to drive without a driver, or at least a supervising driver, in the driver's seat. Waymo has applied for a permit.

It's still waiting. Tesla still hasn't applied for a permit to test. So it could be a few years down the road before you're able to hail a robo taxi here in New York. But what do you think about this job? Would you take it? I mean, I think so. seems pretty chill unless something went amiss and then I don't know what I would do. I think you need

to be a little bit more trained than just a guy in the seat. So I think it would be fun until it's not fun. All right, moving on. The LA Olympics are still a ways off in 2028, but we've already got some controversy brewing because of the reversal of a longstanding tradition. Since the Olympics began, the mega event has always adhered to a clean venue tradition. That means even if a corporate sponsor pays to have its brand associated with the stadium. When the Olympics rolls into town, that name is ditched, both to respect the Olympics' main corporate sponsors and to inject some class into the proceedings. But when the Olympics rolls into LA, capitalism is coming with it. For the first time in Olympic history, the LA 28 games will award naming rights at competition

venues. The first two have already been announced, Squash will be making its Olympic debut at the Comcast Squash Center at Universal Studios, while the Honda Center, home to the NHL's Anaheim Ducks, will retain its title when it hosts indoor volleyball come 2028. This break from tradition comes as LA28 tries to put on a fully privately funded games with an estimated $7 billion price tag to avoid burdening taxpayers. That's expensive. And so the naming rights of up to 19 temporary venues will soon become available with the aim of bringing in additional money. Neil, I see why they're doing it.

It's really, really costly to host a mega event, but still not sure athletes are. going to like it when they achieve their lifelong dreams in Carvada Arena presented by Wingstaff. Oh, we don't care here in the United States. It is, as the LA organizer said in announcing this, corporate sponsorship for venue names is already embedded in American culture. We go to City Field without thinking twice that that is a literal bank. We go to Citizens Bank field, go to Lincoln Financial Field to watch the Eagles. It's just something that you don't think about as an American that may not be as prevalent overseas. And when you're talking about logistics and making things simpler for people, if you have to rename

crypto.com to the basketball arena downtown, that just adds a ton of confusion for people trying to get to that particular location. So I completely understand why they did this. Sure, it looks like a money grab. But if the government does, if the taxpayers don't have to come in and help fund the Olympics, then I think it's a win-win. Yeah, the World Cup, another big mega event, also does this as well. Some firms have kind of analyzed how much revenue the initial title sponsor would be losing out on if their name gets replaced.

And in group stage games, they're losing out about $5 to $9 million in, you know, a brand awareness. That rises to $80 million if a stadium has to lose their name for the final. So there was a lot of money that was being lost here. And I do think one switch that the Olympic Committee saw is that the Paris Games, 2024 summer games, had the highest Olympic ad revenue in history. It had more advertising dollars secured than the Rio and Tokyo Olympics combined. So I think maybe the IOC did open their eyes and say, wait a second, this is obviously the biggest sporting event in the world.

There's a lot of money up for play. Why don't we just open the floodgates here? What better place to do it than LA 28? I know. If you remember watching the opening ceremony for Paris was an LVMH show, basically. Yeah, it was interesting. We saw a lot of good brand. for them. And yeah, NBC Universal, which is owned by Comcast, which is also, you know, sponsoring

the squash court. They entered into a new $3 billion partnership with the IOC. So you're seeing all these things mixed together. And yeah, it makes sense that this is a pilot for now, but might become a bigger thing. I did not know that FIFA does it, though. So when you watch a game at the World Cup at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium, it's going to be known as the New York, New Jersey stadium. He rolls off the tongue right there. All right. Up next, we have Stock of the Week, Dog of the Week. We're the Hartford, with decades

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the segment where Toby and I pick one stock that lives the life of a showgirl and another that gets stage fright. I won the pre-show contest, which was a free solo race up El Capitan, so I get to go first. And my stock of the week is the entire crypto industry, whose powers are growing stronger than the Tune Squad in the second half of Space Jam. Here's what happened this week alone. Bitcoin hit an all-time high on Thursday at $124,500.

It's up 27% this year, well outpacing the S&P 500. Ether, the second largest crypto by market cap, gained 6% to $1,000 to $1,500.000. nearly a record high. It's up 40% this year. And perhaps in the most bullish sign of all, a crypto company named Bullish went gangbusters in its IPO. On Wednesday, the Peter Tealbacked exchange went public and proceeded to pop 84% on its first day of trading thanks to frenzied demand by retail traders. Bullish is a symbol of crypto's fall from grace and recent rise from the ashes. Back in 2022, it tried to go public via special purpose acquisition company, but that deal collapsed when a number of crypto firms, including FDX, imploded. It hunkered down during what's

commonly known as crypto winter. But out of crypto winter has come hot crypto summer. The Trump administration has taken a very pro-crypto regulatory stance. Companies are racing to add Bitcoin to their balance sheets. And overall, a risk on attitude pervades the markets. Hope you held on to your dogecoin, Toby. I did hold on to my dogecoin. And that is not doing great. Thanks for bringing that up. But yeah, crypto has just scored multiple regulatory wins in 2025. I mean, it was just floated as well to allow crypto assets in 401k retirement account. So every news headline you've read about crypto over the past few months has been positive. I also want to dive into this other rise of Ethereum treasuries, ether treasuries. Obviously,

companies have been holding Bitcoin on their corporate balance sheets. It's become more popular. This is popularized by micro strategy that became strategy. But now a lot of companies are doing it. So now companies are doing the same thing with Ethereum. There was this company that used to be called 180 Life Sciences. It pivoted and now rebranded as it plans to rebrand as Ethelah, and they're going to pursue an ether treasury strategy. And that made the stock jump as much as 70% on Wednesday. So we're seeing the exact same playbook that was run with Bitcoin, now being run with

Ethereum. So just to put a point on it, like what is happening here? Companies that are struggling with doing whatever that they were intent. to do are instead pivoting and they raise money to buy Bitcoin and now Ethereum and their stock shoot up like crazy because investors somehow value these companies at maybe twice the value of the crypto that they're holding. Micro Strategy did this and they have over a hundred billion dollar market cap. And now all these other companies are doing it too. It shows just the overall abulience of the market right now when it comes to crypto. My dog of the week is fast casual

restaurant chains or as I like to call them bowl. Slop purveyors. The sad desk launch economy has taken a beating lately. Chipotle kicked things off by reporting a 4% drop in same store sales back in July. Sweet Green followed reporting a 7% decline in its most recent quarter.

And Kava capped things off this week, reporting a 2.1% contraction, flipping from 10% growth the previous quarter, cementing the narrative that traffic is softening across fast casual restaurants. A softening job market and economic pressure has put strain on customers' finances,

One TD Cowan analysts also pointed to the resumption of federal student loan payments as a reason for the reduced spend. That's a problem for bowl slop companies because they rely on the 18 to 24-year-old eater. Kava and Sweet Green both arrived nearly 20% of their business from that demographic. Meanwhile, customers are starting to swing back towards more value-oriented chains like McDonald's, who saw a 2.5% bump in sales last quarter. It's a tough time to be a bull-slop investor too. So far this year, Chipoli is down 30%. Kava is down 41%.

And Sweet Green is down 71%. Ouch. The Chipotle CEO is getting a little vindicated here because a few months ago, they were the first company to report earnings in this entire fast casual industry. And they reported 4% decline in same store sales. And people were like, oh, is Chipotle cooked?

And he said, believe me, we've unpacked this thing 10 ways to understand. Is this a self-inflicted problem? or is this just a more macro problem? Now that sweet green, wing stop, Kava, have all reported horrible earnings. I think he's vindicated a little bit and saying that it is a macro problem

affecting this entire industry. I think what you pointed out of people having to repay their student loans is a big factor in the decline here. Such a big change from a year ago, though. I mean, last year it was the year of bull slop. Chipoli and Kava were both reporting double-digit same store sales growth,

even as the broader restaurant industry was struggling with foot traffic. But then it seemed like, at the time, it seemed like fast food was getting so expensive that fast casual chains were saying, hey, we are very similar price points here with much better food, just come to us. And a lot of consumers were accepting that logic.

But then McDonald's went on this massive value push recently, rolling out a $5 value menu, rolling out a $2.99 cent snack wrap. And so now there is a larger gulf between, at least the perceptions of McDonald's, once again, and fast casual chains. That being said, Sands McDanks,

fast food is struggling, too. Same store sales in the most recent quarter declined. 3.6% at Wendy's, 5% at KFC, and 1% at Popeye. So McDonald's is a bit

of an outlier there, but just in general, it seems like people are pulling back from these chains. Do you think it is terminal decline or is it a blip on the radar? People will reverse course

because I think that it is very cyclical with economic times where with people, are pulling back, then they're not going to be spending on $15 salads. But if times are better, then they will. So they already, these companies are already saying that Q3 is looking a little bit better. So you have to bet on a turnaround. And maybe it's just the bull slop phenomenon that people are realizing it's just not that good to eat slop from a bowl.

Because the only company doing well in the entire fast casual area is pot belly. Put some respect on pot belly's name. The sandwich chain same store sales rose 3.6% last quarter. its best performance in two years. I will never speak ill of bullsop. I love, you know, going to the trough and just shoveling it in my mouth. All right, let's sprint to the finish with some final headlines. Hope you're not planning to travel to or within Canada this weekend because Air Canada is preparing to chop all flights come Saturday morning because of a looming flight attendant strike. The carrier, Canada's largest, began cutting flights yesterday and said it would suspend all flights

by Saturday after the union representing its flight attendants voted to strike come 1 a.m. tomorrow morning. The union said that Air Canada's offer of a 38% raise was, quote, below inflation, below market value, below minimum wage, and would leave flight attendants unpaid for some hours of work while the plane was on the ground. The tourism industry is bracing for catastrophic losses if the strike happens. Since it would take place during the peak summer travel season, Air Canada warned that shutting down would affect 130,000 customers a day.

Also, a really bad country for it to happen to because Canada is really, really big. It's not like you can just drive from one side to the other. So that is going to dispute a massive amount of people's summer vacations. And then also Air Canada operates international travel from the company as well. And it's just horrible timing too because obviously it's peak travel season right now. But also they were seeing this huge revival in domestic travel because less Canadians were going to the United States. They were kind of boycotting the United States. We did see Canadians returning from the United States by air fell 25% in July.

So that is still a meaningful thing that is going on right now. And then you have the biggest domestic airline in the country shutting down. So just a bad country for it to happen to and a bad time for this to happen. And they're racing to see if they can work out a deal before it all goes down on 1 a.m. Saturday. Looks like we're not out of the inflation woods yet. A measure of wholesale prices rose much more than expected in July, showing that tariffs are indeed raising costs for companies that the law. likely pass on to consumers. The producer price index, which measures inflation at the wholesale

level, jumped 3.3% annually last month, the biggest increase since February, and it increased 0.9% month over month compared to projections of just a 0.2% gain. Remember, earlier this week, the market breathed a sigh of relief when inflation measured at the consumer level, the consumer price index, came in pretty tame. That was thought to cement a Fed rate cut at the next meeting in September. But this surprise wholesale inflation number was a reminder that tariff fueled inflation is no doubt coursing its way through the economy. Yeah, PPI's thermometer for wholesale prices. It just measures how much companies are charging other businesses for their goods

and services before those things ever reach you. So it's almost like the factory gate price. If a car factory sells a truck to a dealership, the PPI tracks the factories price, doesn't measure what you are paying at the store. That is the CPI's job. And so the question is, if the PPI came in so hot, are they going to pass this burden that they're clearly seeing from tariffs on to the consumer. And that is kind of the key question here when it comes to defining what will happen with interest rates come September.

How quickly the turntables have turned. Just days after publicly calling out Intel CEO Lip Butan for his ties to China, the Trump administration is now in talks to take a financial stake in the chipmaker. The deal is still in the talking stages and is by no means a sure thing. But it's certainly a surprising development concerning where the two parties were just last week. Trump publicly called for Tan to step down as head of Intel, writing on true social that the CEO was highly conflicted, given his prior investments in Chinese technology companies. That led to a meeting earlier this week, where things took on a decidedly different tune. After the sit-down, Trump praised Tan, saying the Intel's chief's, quote, success in rise is an amazing story. And now the two are closing in on this new potential agreement, which would bolster American market share in semiconductor manufacturing, and gives Intel some government,

support to try and take on TSM, the dominant player in the industry. Neil, we have an enemies to lovers arc right now on our hands. The U.S. government is going full Kirby on private companies right now, just taking massive stakes in these private companies in a way that the U.S. government has never done before. The Intel deal reportedly will be modeled after what the Pentagon did with MP Materials, which is that rare earth miner. The Pentagon is now the largest shareholder in MP materials. It took a $400 million preferred equity stake. And it also made these guaranteed purchases, provided loans and private financing, made an equity investment. And that is what could potentially happen with Intel. And who knows how many other companies as the Trump administration

takes what was what was a very aggressive industrial policy by Biden with the Chips Act. And we were luring all these companies to come with subsidies and tax incentives and things like that. They're saying that was actually small cheese. We're going to actually take a a stake in you and provide intel with much necessary financing because they're trying to build the world's chip largest chip factory in Ohio and they just can't seem to do it. Yeah, it's been delayed till 2030 at this point, so tough to get that off the ground. Finally, it's a big weekend for soccer as the English Premier League kicks off today, bringing the top flight of English football back onto the telly. But it's also a big week for soccer in northwest Arkansas because Marshall Islands,

the tiny island nation with the population of 40,000 who is the self-proclaimed last country on Earth without a football team is participating in its first tournament ever. If you're wondering why Arkansas, well, it just got its own professional team, Ozarks United, which will play in America's second division in a few years. It invited Marshall Islands and some other international squads into town for some scrimmages over the next few days. Oddly enough, Arkansas is home to the largest Marshallese population outside of the Marshall Islands. and around the same time that a UK-based coach was helping build the nation's first team ever and an investor in Ozark United connected the two. So yes, you can tune in to watch Defending Champs Liverpool take on Bournemouth today at 3pm or you can head down to Northwest Arkansas to see how the Marshallese stack up against some Arkansas boys.

So far, it hasn't been great. Marshall Islands lost their first game yesterday for nothing to the U.S. Virgin Islands. You will see the story of the Marshall Island soccer team on an ESPN 30 for 30 sometime soon because it is a remarkable story. This country had never played a single 11-on-11 football soccer match before, or we'll just say football, I don't care, because it doesn't have a full-size pitch anywhere among the 16 islands that comprise the Marshall Islands.

Some Brits heard about what Marshall Islands was trying to do, and they came over and scoured the globe for anyone of Marshall Islands descent to play on this team. Some people had never played a 90-minute match before who played in the game last night. So 4-0 is honestly not a bad. outcome. And then just to zoom out again to the English Premier League starting. I know you're a Liverpool fan, Neil. They're kicking off today. Give me one score prediction. 7-0. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. All right. That is all the time we have. Thanks so much for starting

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