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ChatGPT explained, the FTC suing Microsoft, and Apple adding encryption to iCloud backups

The Vergecast

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We Need to Buy Activision So We Can Get Mobile Games

This is a generationally important antitrust case. We just have not stopped deals like this as a country. If if Microsoft is making the game consoles, they probably shouldn't also be making the games because then they control where those games go. I honestly don't know where this is going to go. Like Xbox is certainly a big part of Microsoft, but cloud computing is a much bigger part of Microsoft. Right? But I know that our country has said, yeah, consent Paramount's consent decree, don't need it. We're fine. Well, so to abstract that out, it's usually like, you know, vertical versus horizontal emergency. And so we allow vertical ones or we have

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