How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet
…And it was when this standards body called the Worldwide Web Consortium, or W3C, was pressured by the big movie studios and the big tech companies to fundamentally change how browsers work…
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How Yahoo escaped the Verizon death spiral
…Here is the pressure. And not just the pressure, the money from your PE owner that runs casinos. There’s a real back and forth here, and I don’t know if…
Does Google even want to win at AI?
…It comes as Google is not competitive on the frontier anymore. There’s a lot of reactions to this news. I wanted to just go through some of that reaction with you…
Lyft CEO David Risher on paying drivers more and the shift to robotaxis
…But it’s not just competition for riders and drivers that Lyft has to deal with. It’s the future of transportation itself, and new AI tools that might take apps like…
Can Patreon fight fire with social media fire?
…I like to put some pressure at the beginning of the meeting to cut right to the chase. The second thing is I no longer trust the framing of the decision. Sometimes…
Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s “unconstrained” relationship with the truth
…You can just see this company is feeling the pressure, and it is responding to that pressure in some way. But then I think back to Sam getting fired. This is just…
AI won’t save advertising, says Digitas’ Amy Lanzi
…Is it just going to be that competitive pressure that keeps them honest? I look at the creator economy and Instagram is a load-bearing part of the creator economy. Disrupting that…
AI warfare is already here
…As Google found with Project Maven, though, competitors are more than willing to fill the gap. Other AI companies have jumped at the chance to work with the Pentagon. Even before…
The load-bearing platform holding up the US social safety net
…And that’s also in direct tension with the platform being a for-profit company, collecting fees and tips and feeling the pressure to grow as a business. So you can…
Reality is losing the deepfake war
…Are there competitors to C2PA? It’s a little bit of a confusing landscape, because I think it’s one of the few tech areas that I would say there shouldn’t…