"We have nowhere else to go and Amazon know it." The FTC and states are going after Amazon, largely for stopping merchants from offering discounts elsewhere.

I wonder what effects this will have with all these antitrust suits happening right as AI is ramping up, but before any of them have got any real foothold. Maybe Alexa will never get a brain and instead AI assistants will be seeded by the breakups or startups untarnished by the end stages of their shareholders parasitizing value?

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