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Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.

Benedict Evans is our guest today. He's a Star Tech analyst who spent years at Andrewston Horowitz and other firms and is now

independent. Evans joins us today to discuss the state of big tech, breaking down his big,

new presentation, the new gatekeepers, which highlights some surprising new shifts underway in the tech industry.

Did you know, for instance, that Amazon's ad business is now bigger than all of newspaper

advertising combined, and that it's also bigger than Amazon Prime? Beneath all of this is a trend

that Evans points out, which is that the line between media and retail is kind of blurring. What's a media site

and what's a retail site? At Amazon and some of its peers, that's a bit unclear. That's the kind of

stuff we cover in today's episode, along with a discussion of where the chatbot business is

heading, looking into some of the APIs. My conversation with Benedict Evans right after this.

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