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.
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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