CHECKING IN ON AI AND THE BIG FIVE

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Ben Thompson, an influential tech analyst, argues Meta will become the "MySpace" of the AI era if LLMs prove truly transformative and Zuckerberg's recent talent acquisition blitz fails. Thompson sees Microsoft's exclusive Azure-OpenAI API access as crucial leverage despite their increasingly frayed relationship, while positioning Amazon-Anthropic as the most stable partnership and warning Google remains vulnerable to search disruption.