Meta Comes Back, JB Hi-Fi Gets Cheap, and Hello World’s $135m Acquisition Gets Weird

Adam and Adir dig into Meta’s latest AI push and the risks of handing autonomous agents access to your personal data, before turning to JB Hi-Fi’s battered share price and whether GTA 6 can really move the needle. They also unpack Hello World’s $135 million acquisition of Crown Currency Exchange, and why the size, structure and disclosure around the deal raises so many questions.

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00:00 - Meta and The AI Race

18:55 - JB Hi-Fi, GTA 6 and Consumer Spending

28:54 - Hello World’s $135m Crown Currency Acquisition

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