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Your morning catchup: Immigration raids, another small plane crash in San Diego and more big stories.

But just one year away from the World Cup and three from the Olympics, the clock is ticking, and it’s almost too late to be playing catchup.

Lue had implored his group to get off to a better start, to not have to play catchup in this road game, to not get “bored with the process.”

As he lays it out, the Island is a response to a nightmare present in which “our meaning, purpose, and agency has already been undermined by Artificial Intelligence technologies,” a trend he blames on the success of TikTok’s deep-learning recommendation feeds and Facebook/Meta’s subsequent bid to play catchup.

The corporation that could once transform both the worlds of advertising and of computing with a “Think Different” campaign is now the one playing catchup with the times, trying to emulate everyone else who once aimed to emulate Apple, and realizing it can no longer depend on squeezing profit from the locked intra-Apple hard- and software ecosystem it steadily built through its most exciting inventions.