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The news cycle is seemingly always full of OpenAI stories. The state of various investments from fellow tech giants like Nvidia and Microsoft, the competitive landscape between other big AI players like Google and Anthropic, and, of course, the more existential questions surrounding the direction of artificial intelligence and its impacts on society.For its new Super Bowl campaign, OpenAI is focusing on a simpler narrative: how ChatGPT helps people build things that have real-world impact.The company will roll out a 60-second national spot during the big game, but it has also made three regional ads, which are debuting exclusively on Fast Company. The regional spots (with both 30-second and long-form versions) profile three different American small businesses—a seed farm, a metal salvage yard, and a family-run tamale shop—that are utilizing ChatGPT to grow and thrive. According to OpenAI CMO Kate Rouch, more than half of ChatGPT users in the U.S. say it has helped them do something they previously thought was impossible. The company’s Super Bowl strategy aims to tell those stories.“Our core brand belief is that free access to these tools unlocks possibilities for people, and that anyone can build,” Rouch says. “We are for that person with an idea that doesn’t know how to make their idea real. Now they can, and that’s so much more important to us than any other thing we could use the Super Bowl for.”ChatGPT StoriesFor Rouch, these ads are personal. In fact, the guy who runs the salvage yard in one spot is actually her neighbor. “That’s how this series started,” she says. “He was showing me how he was using [ChatGPT]. That’s real. That’s cool. So the truth of this is how people are using the product.” The creative approach here is essentially a small-business extension of the vibe the brand unveiled back in September, showing individuals using ChatGPT for everyday things like finding recipes, sourcing exercise tips, and planning a road trip.It’s not the first time Rouch has used hyper-specific personal stories to illustrate the power of technology. When she was CMO at Coinbase, the brand used a similar approach to show that the crypto exchange and payments platform is a utility for everyday people, and a safe, dependable, and sensible option for modern commerce far away from Silicon Valley or Wall Street. The opportunity for Coinbase was to “leverage its position to help give regular people a voice,” she told me at the time. “This is not crypto bros and Lambos.”OpenAI faces a similar challenge of convincing people its tools are for more than asking simple questions. These ads, Rouch says, are a way to platform the very real stuff people are building with the technology.“Millions of people are using ChaGPT every day to do meaningful things in their lives that extend their sense of what’s possible and help them in real ways: running businesses, caretaking for their children and parents’ health, exploring their own health,“ she says. “This is happening and it matters.” Thankfully, OpenAI takes its brand challenges seriously enough not to jump on the Super Bowl AI gimmick bandwagon (see Svedka Vodka’s big game fever dream), instead emphasizing how many human minds and hands went into creating this campaign.OpenAI needs to be telling more stories like these. For as much enthusiasm as there is around AI from brands, many people are currently feeling existential dread over the technology. The good news for a company like OpenAI is that it’s liberated from selling capital “T” transformation in its ad work. Now the onus is on them to make it more human.Check out the long-form versions of each ad below.
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EU Inc: Can Brussels' Latest Corporate Reform Escape Bureaucracy's Grip Submitted by Thomas KolbeThe European Commission is responding to mounting criticism of over-bureaucratization with the introduction of a new corporate legal form. “EU Inc” is intended to create a uniform legal structure that applies across the entire European Union economic area. A charming idea—but one that quickly sinks in the general bureaucratic madness.The European Union has reached a point where it is considered lucky if a handful of days pass without new regulatory initiatives from the Brussels central apparatus.To ease some pressure and deflect growing criticism of the EU’s bureaucratic jungle, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented the idea of a Europe-wide corporate legal form during the World Economic Forum in Davos.The proposed new pan-European company type is called EU Inc. It would become the 28th European legal form, alongside national corporate types such as GmbH, SA, or Limited.What von der Leyen pitched as an innovative project aims to simplify company formation for startups and scale-ups. The goal is to operate cross-border in all 27 member states of the Single Market without needing to create additional subsidiaries to comply with each nation’s legal requirements.EU Inc is intended to enable a uniform, fully digitalized formation and administration process. Companies could be registered online within 48 hours—without a notary and without cumbersome paperwork.The Commission also plans to introduce a central EU register, functioning as a one-stop shop and providing transparency on company formations, capital increases, and ownership structures. The project is currently in the early parliamentary consultation phase and could take effect in national law no earlier than 2027.The Commission’s idea is attractive. Besides facilitating fast and simple company formation, it would be the first substantial initiative in years moving beyond mostly repressive regulation—truly aimed at deepening the European Single Market.Faster market entry, simplified mergers, and potentially easier venture capital financing could follow—if national tax deregulation also occurs. That, however, seems unlikely given European regulatory practices.The politically oft-cited capital markets union would thus receive its first, modest boost—a real-world link to the situation of entrepreneurs. Evidently, fragments of criticism from the business world occasionally reach Commission circles—who would have thought?Where Are the Entrepreneurs?As always with Brussels initiatives, the devil is in the details. First, national adoption of this new legal form must be achieved.It is expected that powerful lobbying groups—from tax advisors to auditors—will work intensively to protect their interests, which are largely derived from the complexity of tax law, capital requirements, and formation procedures.Over any supposed liberalization of economic activity looms the long shadow of European regulatory policy.This is the real crux of European politics. Considering the economic structure of the European economy, one inevitably asks: where are the entrepreneurs who would even be willing or able to utilize this new EU Inc framework?A single number illustrates the grotesque regulatory work of Brussels: last year alone, the European economy was flooded with over 1,400 new EU legal acts. That’s four new regulations per day. Directives, regulations, delegated acts, implementing acts—companies are drowning in an ideologically driven Brussels regulatory swamp.CO2 policies and supply chain directives are often in focus, scrutinizing every economic activity in detail and generating immense bureaucratic costs. Entrepreneurs increasingly work to fund administration—less to serve their markets.What we see in Brussels is classic bureaucracy: once established, politically nurtured, and treated as a political vanguard, it develops a life of its own. Cynically, the production of legal acts is the only “good” keeping it alive.The truth of this bureaucratic phenomenon often reveals itself openly—when politicians proudly list the laws they initiated, without any understanding of real economic life. It is the work record of a gravedigger, carving a path through the increasingly paralyzed productive sector of society.Political and media support for EU climate regulation has created a self-referential bureaucracy now spreading into member states. With state quotas beyond 50%, the Rubicon of economic imbalance is crossed. Europe risks becoming a purely administrative hub while productive economy steadily shrinks.The parasitic body consumes its host, accelerating its decay. Europe is degenerating into an administrative site with declining production activity.Centrifugal Forces Gain MomentumEU Inc could indeed be a charming solution for deepening the Single Market—if one day an orderly regulatory turnaround is initiated.It is quite likely that the accelerating downward spiral of high public debt, falling productivity, rising unemployment, and a dramatic geopolitical decline of the continent will eventually pave the way for a conservative, market-oriented shift.For Brussels central planners, particularly in Eastern Europe, a political storm is brewing that, once unified, could one day shatter the regulatory chains.From a German perspective, however, it seems likely that the driving forces of climate-socialist transformation—undoubtedly concentrated in Berlin—will marshal their forces to continue the fatal path toward a command economy after breaking with the opposition.* * * About the author: Thomas Kolbe, a Germany a graduate economist, has worked for over 25 years as a journalist and media producer for clients from various industries and business associations. As a publicist, he focuses on economic processes and observes geopolitical events from the perspective of the capital markets. His publications follow a philosophy that focuses on the individual and their right to self-determination. Tyler DurdenThu, 02/05/2026 - 05:00