Advertising
The most important business model for consumers.
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The advertising has shifted from a Google-Facebook duopoly to one where Amazon and potentially Apple are major forces.
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Facebook and Google and other advertising businesses are data factories, and regulation will be most effective if it lets users look inside
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Google is in hot water again, this time for ads placed against objectionable content. However, ad agencies and brands are just as responsible, and can no longer live in the past.
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Facebook has long had too much power, but Mark Zuckerberg’s expressed willingness to use said power for political ends means it’s time to consider countermeasures.
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Tech is entering a period of inequality where the big winners lift the sector as a whole even as smaller companies suffer. The best example is Facebook, Google, and digital advertising.
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An Interview with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien About Betting on Humans With Expertise
An interview with New York Times Company CEO Meredith Kopit Levien about human expertise as a moat against Aggregators and AI.
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Agents Over Bubbles
Agents are fundamentally changing the shape of demand for compute, both in terms of how they work and in terms of who will use them. They’re so compelling that I no longer believe we’re in a bubble.
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Anthropic’s Skyrocketing Revenue, A Contract Compromise?, Nvidia Earnings
Anthropic’s enterprise business is reaching escape velocity, which increases the importance of finding a compromise with the government. Then, agents dramatically increase demand for Nvidia chips, even if they threaten software.
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Spotify Earnings, Individualized Networks, AI and Aggregation
Spotify’s nature as a content network means that AI is a sustaining technology, particularly because they have the right business model in place.