Meta
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Meta is well-positioned to the biggest beneficiary of AI and the largest company in the world.
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Meta is making lots of noise about being open, in everything from AI to the metaverse. This isn’t desperation: it’s smart strategy that understands Meta’s true differentiation.
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Beachheads and Obstacles
Facebook and Amazon had events on the same day for Oculus and Alexa. Both are driven by lessons from the mobile era, but Amazon seems to have learned more than Facebook.
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Facebook Acquires CTRL-Labs, Acquisitions and Value, The Portal and Facebook’s Reputation
Facebook is acquiring CTRL-Labs, a computer-neural interface that is potentially a great fit with Oculus. At this point, though, is Facebook’s involvement in this new technology value-destructive?
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Privacy Fundamentalism
The current privacy debate is making things worse by not considering trade-offs, the inherent nature of digital, or the far bigger problems that come with digitizing the offline world.
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Libra in Congress; Global Community, Revisited; Messianic Versus Money-Making
Libra had a chilly reception at Capitol Hill, which highlighted a fundamental tension between Internet companies and lawmakers. Then, why it was inevitable that Facebook would make Libra, and why it was probably the wrong choice.