House committee approves bill that could break up Amazon, Apple, and Google

Re:House committee approves bill that could break up Amazon,... by errantmind on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:30PM (#27626847)

I think FAANG have mostly lost innovation, not gained it as they grew. They protect their prior innovations with large legal teams

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Re:House committee approves bill that could break up Amazon,... by sunstone on Friday June 25, 2021 @07:15AM (#27629288)

The weird exception is Microsoft which isn't in FAANG but hit 2T market cap recently. These days both Microsoft and Amazon are primarily cloud server providers.

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Re:House committee approves bill that could break up Amazon,... by aejnsn on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:54AM (#27627266)

Exactly this. None of them are nearly as hungry as they were just over ten years ago.

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Re:House committee approves bill that could break up Amazon,... by truth_ on Friday June 25, 2021 @01:31AM (#27627448)

Not true.

Very high quality AI research regularly come from Facebool, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.

Yann LeCun at FAIR is pioneering Self-Supervised Learning which is likely to be a gamechanger in AI.

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Re:House committee approves bill that could break up Amazon,... by errantmind on Saturday June 26, 2021 @07:18AM (#27640950)

I'm generally not counting acquisitions as innovation in my statement.

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