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Jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in ticketing market, in case brought by state attorneys general after DOJ settlement (NBC News)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 15, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: The Pentagon’s AI Plan + Behind the Human Struggle — With Undersecretary of War Emil…

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The Pentagon is right to try to constrain Anthropic, because AI could become a superweapon and nation states must have a monopoly on the use of force (Noah Smith/Noahpinion)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 6, 2026

Noah Smith / Noahpinion: The Pentagon is right to try to constrain Anthropic, because AI could become a superweapon and…

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Google says it is appealing the United States v. Google ruling that found it has an illegal search monopoly and is asking the court to stay some of the appeals during the appeal (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 16, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Are Google’s Geminis winning?, Drama of thinking machines, The potential of Claude Cowork The Big…

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Ted Sarandos met with President Trump in November, and both agreed that WBD should be awarded to the highest bidder; Sarandos argued that Netflix was not a monopoly (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 7, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The 100-person AI lab that has become Anthropic and Google’s secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge…

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A U.S. judge is expected to rule next year on whether to dissolve Google’s ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google present their final findings at a relief hearing (David McCabe/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 21, 2025

David McCabe / New York Times: A US judge is expected to rule next year on whether to dissolve Google’s…

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Trump One Big Beautiful Bill Act requires that all new Towers of American border surveillance be "autonomous"Effectively granting a monopoly on new contracts (Sam Biddle / The Intercept) to Andundil

By Stacey D. WallsJuly 10, 2025

Sam Biddle / Interception:: Trump One Big Beautiful Bill Act requires that all new American border surveillance laps be “autonomous”,…

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During closing arguments, a judge asked the two parties about ideas to limit the Google research monopoly and said he expected to make a decision in August (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 30, 2025

Featured podcasts Techmeme comes home: Big Meta / Andundil Deal is a big problem The news of the day, every…

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Google Chrome won the Browser Wars Fair and Square, and the web will be worse if Google is forced to sell it, even to atone for the abuse of monopoly on the advertising market (David Heinemeier Hansson / Hey)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 28, 2025

David Heinemeier Hansson / HEY:: Google Chrome won the Browser Wars Fair and Square, and the web will be worse…

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The judge supervising the hearing on the repair of the Google monopoly wondered if the Doj’s proposal to force a chrome sale met the "causality" Standard for a structural remedy (Erin Woo / The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 21, 2025

Erin Woo / Information:: The judge supervising the hearing on the repair of the Google monopoly wondered if the Doj’s…

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Ftc c. Meta: the United States argued that Meta has a monopoly in the "Personal social networking" The market, which, according to him, only understands Instagram, Whatsapp, Snapchat and Mewe (Brendan Bordelon / Politico)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 14, 2025

Brendan Bordelon / Politico:: Ftc c. Meta: the United States has argued that Meta has a monopoly on the “personal…

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Data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Employment in 18 occupations exposed to AI decreased by 0.2% between May 2024 and May 2025, while the US labor market as a whole increased by 0.8% (Matthew Boesler/Bloomberg)

Los Angeles-based Fasset, which offers stablecoin-based cross-border banking and payments services in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, has raised a $51 million Series B round (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)

Electricity prices on the largest U.S. power grid, operated by PJM, jumped 76% year-over-year to an average of $136.53/MWh in the first quarter due to rampant data center demand (John Ainger/Bloomberg)

Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools for creating clones of people’s voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg raised about $4 million (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how these efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AV, and more. (Bill Gurley/Bill’s Substack)

Browsing: monopoly

Jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in ticketing market, in case brought by state attorneys general after DOJ settlement (NBC News)

The Pentagon is right to try to constrain Anthropic, because AI could become a superweapon and nation states must have a monopoly on the use of force (Noah Smith/Noahpinion)

Google says it is appealing the United States v. Google ruling that found it has an illegal search monopoly and is asking the court to stay some of the appeals during the appeal (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Ted Sarandos met with President Trump in November, and both agreed that WBD should be awarded to the highest bidder; Sarandos argued that Netflix was not a monopoly (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

A U.S. judge is expected to rule next year on whether to dissolve Google’s ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google present their final findings at a relief hearing (David McCabe/New York Times)

Trump One Big Beautiful Bill Act requires that all new Towers of American border surveillance be "autonomous"Effectively granting a monopoly on new contracts (Sam Biddle / The Intercept) to Andundil

During closing arguments, a judge asked the two parties about ideas to limit the Google research monopoly and said he expected to make a decision in August (Wall Street Journal)

Google Chrome won the Browser Wars Fair and Square, and the web will be worse if Google is forced to sell it, even to atone for the abuse of monopoly on the advertising market (David Heinemeier Hansson / Hey)

The judge supervising the hearing on the repair of the Google monopoly wondered if the Doj’s proposal to force a chrome sale met the "causality" Standard for a structural remedy (Erin Woo / The Information)

Ftc c. Meta: the United States argued that Meta has a monopoly in the "Personal social networking" The market, which, according to him, only understands Instagram, Whatsapp, Snapchat and Mewe (Brendan Bordelon / Politico)