Fri. 04/18 – The Google Antitrust Snowball
Google is ruled an illegal monopoly. Again. But for a different reason this time. Switch 2 pre-orders are back on. Americans are flocking to Temu and Shein alternatives. And in the Weekend Longreads Suggestions, what if I told you 25 percent of community college applicants are now AI bots? And not only that, the bots are now “attending classes” in quotes.
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Show Notes
Google is ruled an illegal monopoly. Again. But for a different reason this time. Switch 2 pre-orders are back on. Americans are flocking to Temu and Shein alternatives. And in the Weekend Longreads Suggestions, what if I told you 25 percent of community college applicants are now AI bots? And not only that, the bots are now “attending classes” in quotes.
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Links:
- Google Broke the Law to Keep Its Advertising Monopoly, a Judge Rules (NYTimes)
- Google loses online advertising monopoly case (Axios)
- Google Found GUILTY of Monopolization Again (The Big Newsletter)
- Nintendo Switch 2 preorders start April 24th and the price is still $449.99 (The Verge)
- The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing ‘reverse location search’ from photos (TechCrunch)
- Chinese shopping app Taobao joins DHgate in Top 5 on US App Store (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- As ‘Bot’ Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond (Voice Of San Diego)
- Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (NYTimes)
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