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Speaker 2: There was a headline today about how Amazon and Google

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Speaker 2: are being probed by the Federal Trade Commission on their

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Speaker 2: search advertising practices.

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Speaker 3: This is according to.

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg reporting, citing people who are familiar with the matter.

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Speaker 2: So we need to bring in Justin Treesi. He is

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Speaker 2: the anti trust litigation and policy analyst here for us

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Speaker 2: at Bloomberg Intelligence. Justin just walk us through what these

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Speaker 2: headlines mean to you when you look at it through

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Speaker 2: your anti trust lens.

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Speaker 4: Hi Scarlett, Happy Friday to you. So interestingly enough, here

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Speaker 4: in this case, it really looks like more of a

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Speaker 4: consumer protection investigation, not an anti trust kind of investigation.

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Speaker 4: So what I mean by that here is that we're

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Speaker 4: really looking at the pricing and the terms that perhaps

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Speaker 4: were set forth by Amazon and by Google in their

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Speaker 4: workings with advertisers, and when the or not that pricing

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Speaker 4: and those terms was misleading in any way, So a

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Speaker 4: different kind of series of facts here from what we're

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Speaker 4: seeing in the anti trust cases route advertising, with a

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Speaker 4: big one coming up in about a week the Remedies

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Speaker 4: very soon. More risk there, if you ask me. But

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Speaker 4: this one here really focused on those pricing policies. It

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Speaker 4: looks like at those companies and the remedies here are

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Speaker 4: probably nowhere near the kind of breakup risk that we

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Speaker 5: That's what I was going to ask justin is whether

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Speaker 5: or not you know this makes the case to bolsters

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Speaker 5: the case to break up these tech giants. I also

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Speaker 5: want to make clear that these allegations are now different

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Speaker 5: from what both Google and Amazon are facing. They're facing

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Speaker 5: trials this month, right with separate lawsuits brought by federal agencies.

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Speaker 6: Yep, that's right.

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Speaker 4: So you're hit the nail on the head there too.

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Speaker 4: This is really more related to search issues and search advertising, which,

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Speaker 4: interestingly enough, that's what we just had that huge remedies

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Speaker 4: implemented as part of that ruling Number one. Number two, Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 4: the Google case that's pending, that's about open web advertising

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Speaker 4: this month that's about Amazon Prime terms, right, and whether

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Speaker 2: We should note that the FDC and Google declined to

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Speaker 2: requests for comment. So justin when you look at all

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Speaker 2: Is this something that's going to be a month long

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Speaker 4: So I don't think we'll see any more announcements from

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Speaker 2: Okay, so very much moving goalposts and a TBD kind

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Speaker 2: And that's something that's only really started to roll out,

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Speaker 4: More likely yet to come.

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Speaker 5: Lots of news in tech, Adobe's earnings beat open AI

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Speaker 5: So a rog, let's break down Adobe first, because I

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Speaker 6: So this is definitely the one that.

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Speaker 7: Has the biggest AI cloud in terms of being disrupted.

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Speaker 7: And it's going to take some multiple quarters like this

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Speaker 2: That's going to take multiple quarters of this to convince

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Speaker 7: See there again that Halo is not going to again

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Speaker 7: looking at where your large language model can do for it.

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Speaker 7: So but again, the software industry is declining right now.

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Speaker 5: I'm Alexis Kristoffers along with Scarlett Foo and Paramount sky

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Speaker 5: with Geetha Ranganathan Bloomberg, intelligence analyst on US Media. He's

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Speaker 5: The great to see you. I guess Bloomberg was the

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Speaker 8: Yeah, so what we know right now, alexis is that

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 8: The reason I bring that up is because Warner Brothers

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Speaker 8: So there's a whole you know, portfolio of different assets there,

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Speaker 5: You are saying Etha that this, if it were to happen,

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Speaker 8: That is what has been reported. It would be a

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Speaker 5: So I'm wondering if if Paramount Skydance is interested in

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Speaker 8: Yeah, normally it would have been a problem. I think,

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Speaker 8: Well, that is absolutely bound to happen. So we were

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