Big Tech Got Its Pivot in 2024
When reviewing 2024 from a technology perspective, it’s tempting to assume something related to AI must have been the story of the year.
When reviewing 2024 from a technology perspective, it’s tempting to assume something related to AI must have been the story of the year. After 18 months of talk, we began to see the first wave of consumer-facing AI features built in response to generative AI mania. However, such developments felt measured relative to a much larger event that took place in November. The U.S. presidential election, resulting in President Trump returning to the White House, was the event of the year for Big Tech. The election gave Big Tech a pivot that companies are now leveraging, some more publicly than others, to re-balance scales that had tilted against the world’s largest companies.
In 2023, the Digital Markets Act went into effect in the EU. It was as if a black hole had formed in the sense that rationality evaporated from the marketplace. I have been
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Big Tech Should Embrace Trump’s Pro-America Platform
Earlier this week, President Trump won a second presidential term in a blowout election. The signs were there all along that such a result was likely. Big Tech sure seemed to anticipate such a result.
Earlier this week, President Trump won a second presidential term in a blowout election. The signs were there all along that such a result was likely. Big Tech sure seemed to anticipate such a result.
The past four years have been alarming to Big Tech as the U.S. lost geopolitical and regulatory standing on the global stage. President Trump’s pro-America platform offers Big Tech a reset opportunity, and it should be utilized. This will likely lead to business model changes involving data collection and content curation and delivery (less moderation) and a stark rethink of where the U.S. should stand in the global supply chain (more manufacturing in the U.S.).
While Big Tech’s standing against various U.S. regulatory and antitrust battles was always stronger than consensus assumed, it became clear in recent years that the battle Big Tech was up against was not going to be a fair one. Instead of propping up
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