Requiem for Raghavan Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming Google's "Chief Edward Zitron Oct 21, 2024 7 min read
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Matt Stoller Explains Monopolies The latest episode of my podcast Better Offline is a conversation with Matt Stoller — America’s leading voice on monopoly Edward Zitron Aug 27, 2024 29 min read
Monopoly Money Last week, in the midst of the slow, painful collapse of the generative AI hype cycle, something incredible happened. On Edward Zitron Aug 12, 2024 26 min read
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How Does OpenAI Survive? Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of charlatans looking to Edward Zitron Jul 29, 2024 31 min read
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Put Up Or Shut Up I feel like the tech industry is currently in the midst of the most bizarre cognitive dissonance I've Edward Zitron Jul 16, 2024 14 min read