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They said it was impossible. After decades of #antitrust cases over #PredatoryPricing - selling below cost to kill or prevent competitors - the #ChicagoSchool of neoliberal #economists "proved" predatory pricing didn't exist, so courts could stop busting companies for it.

1/ A giant pile of manure with...
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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Predatory pricing - the economists explained - was illegal, but it was also imaginary. A mirage. No one would predatory price, because it was "irrational." Even if someone irrational enough to try it, they would fail. Stand down, American judges - predatory pricing is solved.

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#Google's #AIHype Circle: We have to do #Bard because everyone else is doing #AI; everyone else is doing AI because we're doing Bard.

doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hyp…  An anatomical cutaway of a...
Google's plummeting search quality made the company desperate to please its "activist investors"

doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hyp…

#SecurityThroughObscurity #SearchQuality #Enshittification #Google Having to build a search-ra...
Google can improve search, or it can chase stock gains through #AIHype. It chose the latter

doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hyp… So Google finds itself on t...
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A lot of people refer to self-driving as a "race"

And many think it'll be winner-take-all.

But that doesn't make much sense.

Self-driving will be winnerS-take-most.

Let's talk about why.

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The self-driving race narrative suggests a single winner crosses the finish line.

But what would that self-driving finish line look like?

And if one company crossed it, why would everyone else give up?

The market for autonomous miles is in the trillions.

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No transportation technology has ever had a single finish line or winner.

Did the Wright Brothers "win" aviation at Kitty Hawk in 1903?

No ONE company won aviation.

Not manufacturers. Not airlines.

Aviation was winnerS-take-most.

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Last week @amazon acquired self-driving #startup @zoox for $1.2bn.

Zoox has been working on a building a special vehicle just for full #SelfDriving. The company raised ~$1bn in total and was previously valued at $3.2bn. /1

#AI #AutonomousVehicles

techcrunch.com/2020/06/26/ama…
2/ Whether Amazon will "rule the world" or not as an article in @Forbes says, it's yet to be clear where #AutonomousVehicles fit in Amazon's business. At the moment, Zoox is expected to continue working on their robotaxi vision.

forbes.com/sites/bradtemp…
3/ However, Amazon will need to spend a lot more after the acquisition in order to bring #SelfDrivingCars to market.

cnbc.com/2020/06/26/ama…
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The State of #SelfDriving in 2020. A comprehensive view on the key players in #SelfDrivingCars industry with a short summary for each.

"Since 2009, the companies working on robocars have disclosed at least $14 billion worth of investment."

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bloomberg.com/features/2020-…
2/ "#SelfDriving engineers were quietly recalibrating expectations and pushing promised timelines back."

"The only platform taking passengers in fully driverless vehicles is @Waymo, a @Google spinoff. It is the sector’s presumed front-runner."

Here's who the other leaders are:
3/ @Cruise
Owned by @GM. Raised >$9bn till date. Targets San Francisco for deployment. Recently unveiled a car without a steering wheel for full autonomy.

@argoai
Supported by 2 of the world's largest automakers: Ford and VW. Current valuation is $7bn.
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