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Splinternet

Inside Google, Apple, and Microsoft's epic search war
The fascinating collision of ego, power, politics, and money, that decided how four billion people access the open web...
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Ricky Sutton
How can we keep Google's best for a better future?
The challenge Judge Amit Mehta now has ahead is how to thread the needle between retaining the web we have and creating space for the web the future…
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Google's monopoly is busted, handing news a chance card
Everyone wants great search and trustworthy news, so here are some ideas how the judge can achieve both, with some radical thinking...
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A year ago I predicted AI needed publisher partnerships - was I right?
In my very first newsletter I predicated that AI would be the most ruthless disruptor the news business had ever faced, and its biggest hope, so...
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OpenAI fluffs its lines as model collapse makes a mockery of its flagship
Leadership in AI is back up for grabs as Chat GPT-4o fails to advance, sending Microsoft, Google, and Apple, scrambling to gain ground
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What happens to privacy if Apple embeds Google's AI in the iPhone?
Plus, a plucky UK council sues Big Tech for $490 million and wins, Reddit prepares to IPO, TikTok closes in on taking Meta's crown, and more...
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Australia's world-first deal between Meta and news collapses, so what's next?
The social media giant's moved on and won't renew its media deals in Australia. Now publishers are scrambling for a Plan B. Here's a big idea...
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Google's exodus shortens odds on a splinternet
Plus, media's bigger elephant aligns, Zuck seeks to avoid censure, broadcast gets a Buffett-ing, Apple parks its electric car, and more...
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Did OpenAI just unlock a splinternet opportunity for the news industry?
Plus, your feedback on media's leadership vacuum, Lebron's $200 million media play, the sport of consolidation, new laws to protect kids, and more
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Winning at AI relies on publisher partnerships
AI could be the most ruthless disruptor the news business has ever faced, and it could also be the industry’s best hope to save and sustain itself...
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