The real original sin of the internet is moving to advertising before subscriptions. The companies that are being formed will look for how to make money at this. I think Gates is right to say, what's going to turn out to be? It's going to be like sex bot AIs. This is an opportunity to make subscriptions work,. Subscriptions or not advertising based technologies.
Scott and Kara* dissect TikTok CEO Shou Chew’s testimony in the House as the app fends of a potential U.S. ban. And in A.I. news, Google released its chat bot, Bard, to the general public. Plus, President Trump is still a free man, the Fed has raised interest rates yet again, and Ford’s EV business is in the red. Then, a listener question about getting paid in stock.
*See what we did there?
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