Everybody wants to control the AI chat interface because... duh... controlling the starting point of information discovery and commerce is ultimate power. The Ring.. Dark Lord Sauron, the Ring. What we are seeing is the proliferation of starting points. AI has created a competitive crack in Google's search armor.

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“It’s the most important antitrust case of the 21st century,” said Bill Baer, who was an assistant attorney general for antitrust in the Obama administration. “And, of course, the battle is not over, because there will be appeals and appeals and appeals.”

The problem ‘akshually’ is that contemporary programmatic advertising is too efficient, and the ads sales people at The New York Times selling outrageously priced ads on a fixed, rate-card basis were selling media not really worth the cost (when measured at the level of precision the internet makes possible). Decades worth of such advertising mispr... See more