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#411: After five years of courtroom warfare, bitter rivals Google and Fortnite are joining forces to reinvent app stores...

Nov 6 •

12:30

The AI pact that turned Reddit into a $39 billion rocketship

#410: Plus, Apple exec might be headed for jail, US carmaker deletes CarPlay, Google yanks AI over false Senator sex claims, and come join Scotch&Watch…

Nov 5 •

Cloudflare's a new Sheriff and AI bots are on notice

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Nov 2 •

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How publishers can profit from privacy - DuckDuckGo

#408: Plus, The Daily Mail lands one on Google, Meta plunges on wild spending, Apple hits its first $100 billion quarter, and how to ride the creator…

Oct 31 •

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The creator boom is calling time on the homepage era

#407: A deep dive into the creator economy and the countries driving the surge - as well as a workable playbook for legacy news to join in...

Oct 30 •

Nine pointers for publishers to win the next decade

#406: Plus, Apple maps its ad future, Meta discovers it can help kids, Australia backs creators, TikTok's fined over data failures, and Chinese…

Oct 29 •

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Apple's perfect storm as profit, politics and privacy collide

#405: Apple's about to hit $4 trillion for the first time ever but it's far from cookies and cream inside its Oreo-shaped headquarters in Cupertino...

Oct 28 •

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I just asked ChatGPT's boss how he'll pay publishers

#404: Special edition: ChatGPT’s IP chief was being probed on copyright and cash. He smiled, soothed, sidestepped - then I got my chance...

Oct 27 •

After a year of tech shifts, how about this as a big idea...

#403: Plus, OpenAI launches a browser, Netflix sinks on earnings, Apple laps Disney, RayBans soar on Meta vision, and three letters that unlocked AI...

Oct 22 •

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#402: How a 70-year quest to teach machines human language built the hidden plumbing of the web - and changed AI forever...

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#394: The search giant argues the AI market is still forming and its rivals are bundling already, but the judge fears it could spawn a new monopoly...

Oct 10 •

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#392: Epic Games just beat Google again, with the Supreme Court denying its latest attempt to stall app-store reform...

Oct 7 •

After 987 days, Google’s fate rests with one judge

#391: Judge Leonie Brinkema will now decide whether to dismantle Google or trust it to reform itself - a choice that will decide the economics of…

Oct 7 •

Stockholm Syndrome takes the stand at Google break-up

#388: In 1973, a young bank teller shielded a robber from snipers and changed psychology forever. We saw a publisher do it again yesterday...

Oct 3 •

Why Google ad avails vanish when newsrooms need them

#386: Google just testified that it's helping publishers to hit campaign goals, but the real-world experience suggests the game is rigged...

Oct 1 •

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How publishers can profit from privacy - DuckDuckGo

#408: Plus, The Daily Mail lands one on Google, Meta plunges on wild spending, Apple hits its first $100 billion quarter, and how to ride the creator…

Oct 31 •

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Nine pointers for publishers to win the next decade

#406: Plus, Apple maps its ad future, Meta discovers it can help kids, Australia backs creators, TikTok's fined over data failures, and Chinese…

Oct 29 •

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#403: Plus, OpenAI launches a browser, Netflix sinks on earnings, Apple laps Disney, RayBans soar on Meta vision, and three letters that unlocked AI...

Oct 22 •

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Oct 14 •

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1:04:17

AFP's AI chief shares how the global newsroom is adapting

#413: Sophie Huet reveals how she's retaining 1,700 heads, predicting news in 150 countries, and preparing for AIs to be her next customers...

Nov 9 •

,

, and

13:02

Social justice groups target OpenAI for "coaching suicide"

#412: Suit alleges OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman designed a product that manipulates users psychologically and contributed to four deaths...

Nov 9 •

Meta's misogynistic culture puts kids at risk, warns insider

#345: A director who worked on Zuck's Metaverse claims execs treat perverts preying on kids as "a distraction from business goals"...

Jun 14 •

1:13:06

How antitrust regulators intend to sell of Google's ad tech

#336: A step-by-step guide to how regulators plan to sell and share the ad tech tools that Google used to build a $1.7 trillion illegal monopoly...

May 28 •

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Meta on trial

4:57

Q: Where are we now with the Meta antitrust case?

#354: Meta has slunk off into the shadows now its high-profile antitrust case has ended. So where are we, and what's coming next?

Jul 9 •

Ex-Meta director begs former colleagues to halt child harm

#350: "I believed the leadership and internal propaganda about our ambitions and priorities and value. I feel tremendous guilt," she says.

Jun 26 •

Meta's misogynistic culture puts kids at risk, warns insider

#345: A director who worked on Zuck's Metaverse claims execs treat perverts preying on kids as "a distraction from business goals"...

Jun 14 •

A judge will now decide the future of social - and Zuck

#337: A judge will now decide the fate of social ads, personal privacy, and define the future of the daily clicks and shares of half the global…

May 29 •

Meta just picked a fight with news - it could be costly

#329: Blaming journos for being mean while running a monopoly that publishes hate at an apocalyptic scale was an interesting legal ploy...

May 14 •

Apple on Trial

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Apple's perfect storm as profit, politics and privacy collide

#405: Apple's about to hit $4 trillion for the first time ever but it's far from cookies and cream inside its Oreo-shaped headquarters in Cupertino...

Oct 28 •

Publishers due millions as Oz rules app charges illegal

#365: Breaking: Judgement opens way for publishers to sell subs directly avoiding high fees and compensation going back years...

Aug 13 •

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Apple’s app stranglehold is now a political flashpoint

#348: Competition lawyer Gene Burrus reveals a landmark event that put Cupertino on a collision course with the most powerful people on Earth...

Jun 23 •

47:23

We're at peak tech, and that's why Apple looks so rotten

Yeah yeah, no-one believes me but let me share some of the very real ways that you are being hurt by Cupertino's $363 billion juggernaut...

Aug 23, 2024 •

Apple shapeshifts to use privacy creds for profit - DoJ

Antitrust enforcers allege Apple wraps itself "in a cloak of privacy, security, and consumer preferences to justify its anticompetitive conduct..."

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