What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - America’s Tech Trustbuster
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The biggest companies in the world are now tech companies, which is why the biggest antitrust, anti-monopoly fights in recent memory are centered around Silicon Valley.
Guest: Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
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| 0:00.0 | AI might be the most important innovation ever. |
| 0:03.0 | It's storming every industry with literally billions being invested. |
| 0:07.0 | So buckle up. |
| 0:08.0 | The problem is that AI needs the right data and a lot of speed and processing power. |
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| 0:57.0 | When I first got Jonathan Cantor on the line, I wanted to know how he would describe his job, not the technical title, |
| 1:10.5 | assistant attorney general for the antitrust division at the Department of Justice, or what |
| 1:16.0 | the press has called him, America's top tech cop or a modern trust buster. But just how Cantor sees what he does every day. |
| 1:26.8 | So we take on bullies. There are big companies that have sometimes the power of a small or large government and |
| 1:36.5 | they're telling people how to live their lives. They're keeping other companies |
| 1:40.8 | from competing fair and square and we step in to make sure that people are |
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