Old man Google is showing wanton disregard for the law, watchdogs warn

Plus, the economics of the Reddit AI deal with Google, Meta's profits of slime, the WSJ's vision for the smartphone, and more...

A distinctly European flavour to new member sign-ups this week. The United Nations and The European Union turned up to our first newsletter get-together last week.

Now, over the weekend, new subscribers joined from the Conseil Economique, Social et Environnemental that advises French lawmakers on the social and economic impact of Big Tech, and more from Lyon University.

Spike Productions also joined from the nearby Channel Islands, taking the membership of Future Media past 50 countries. Welcome also to new joiners from ITV, the UFC, Chilli Media and digitaltrends.com. 👍

Let’s start with Google. It’s showing its age, and shareholders know it.

CEO Sundar Pichai is under pressure to extract every cent of super-profit he can before the AI frontrunners leave it further in the dust.

It’s a wounded dinosaur, and very dangerous for publishers right now.

Pichai’s planning a Hail Mary by rewriting digital advertising with SGE. Search Generative Experience (deep dive here) is the Frankenstein’s mo…