I've been focused all afternoon reporting/writing about the verdict, but finally have time to share a bit more about the ruling — and reactions from @TheJusticeDept and @Google about the opinion. I'll share a thread here w/ some thoughts about what both sides & observers noted.
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Google Antitrust Trial: Legal Remedies and Industry Impact
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If anyone has thoughts on the decision and/or POVs on potential remedies, let us know! Also, here's a link to our past @Digiday coverage of @Google on trial: https://
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Google Found Guilty of Antitrust Violations in Ad Tech Markets
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Google has been found guilty of antitrust violations in two of the three alleged markets, following a long-awaited ruling in its ad tech antitrust battle with the Justice Department. The court's ruling just landed this morning.
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AI as Goal-Directed Adaptive Systems: Cybernetics Approach
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Hulme thinks it's better to think about AI systems as goal-directed adaptive systems—a cybernetics-inspired concept that gained traction in the 1980s by applying systems theory to how AI can learn and adapt through experience rather than static code.
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WPP’s AI Chief Designs Guardrails for Scaling AI Agents
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For my latest @Digiday story, I spoke w/ @WPP Chief AI Officer about building infrastructure & guardrails for AI systems. (Link below.) One analogy I thought of: Daniel Hulme role is kinda like an urban planner for AI that designs roads & rules for safely scaling AI agents.
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Chief AI Officers Share Insights Across Major Companies
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Here's the story, which also includes interviews with other CAIOs at companies like @WPP and elsewhere.
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Agencies Name Chief AI Officers to Lead Corporate Strategy
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More agencies are adding a new title to the c-suite: chief AI officer. This month, @stagwell
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FTC Launches Antitrust Trial Against Meta Over Instagram WhatsApp Acquisitions
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Big day in court today between the FTC and Meta for Day 1 of the antitrust trial taking place in D.C., where the government is accusing Meta of monopolistic behavior by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp. Wish I could’ve attended IRL like I did for the DOJ v Google adtech trial.
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Google Cloud Next: Major Brands Scale Content with Generative AI
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My recap of #GoogleCloudNext that I wrote last week is finally live, featuring one of the themes: how Google is getting major brands like @LOrealGroupe and @MDLZ to create, iterate and scale content using generative AI. One example: The legendary creative agency @GSP created a
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NotebookLM Feature Request: Multi-Notebook Chat Capability
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Congrats (and thanks) for adding this! I've been hoping NotebookLM would get a feature like this for a while. Any plans to add a way to somehow chat across multiple notebooks simultaneously?