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How much longer can Google own the internet?

Vox

Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act on Thursday. This bipartisan and bicameral legislation would forbid any company with more than $20 billion in digital advertising revenue — that’s Google and Meta, basically — from owning multiple parts of the digital advertising chain.

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Amazon Music will offer My Favorite Murder episodes a week early

The Verge

My trip through California had me disconnecting from the internet, spotting Michael Keaton at a Santa Barbara restaurant inside a furniture store, and, naturally, ending up in multiple conversations about Joe Rogan. Spotify and Amazon have different incentives, of course, which factors into their different approaches. Hello, hello.

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Big tech’s 2021 earnings were off the chart

The Verge

Snap posted its first-ever net profit and beat growth forecasts. W e saw three to four years of growth get pulled forward in the course of 12 to 18 months, and the biggest beneficiary of that was the likes of Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, Google, and Apple.”. The answer, of course, is more complicated than any single factor.

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The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity

Vox

That means that any goal, even innocuous ones like playing chess or generating advertisements that get lots of clicks online, could produce unintended results if the agent pursuing it has enough intelligence and optimization power to identify weird, unexpected routes to achieve its goals. Shutting off any one computer wouldn’t help.

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Basically everything on Amazon has become an ad. It’s only the beginning.

Vox

While company founder Jeff Bezos once said that “advertising is the price you pay for having an unremarkable product or service,” Amazon has in recent years become an ad-selling machine, driven by the substantial profit margins and the rising value of digital retail estate on the most popular shopping site in the West.

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How Blackstone became the darling of grill TikTok

The Verge

So of course, I wanted to know: where did the Blackstone come from? And it wasn’t really the pandemic that did that, or TikTok, it was really that we started doing TV advertising. And so I brought in some people who knew a lot about TV advertising and marketing, and I said, “I’m gonna spend money on TV. So I bought one.

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We all just fell for Amazon’s made-up holiday yet again

Vox

Cultures have been inventing commercial holidays for a very long time,” said Jason Goldberg, chief commerce strategy officer at the advertising firm Publicis. Even though, as Sebastian Herrera notes in the Wall Street Journal , Prime Day isn’t quite as big of a thing as it once was, it’s still very much a net positive for the company.

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