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  1. 🚀🎉 Breaking News: Rocket Lab buys #Iridium, aiming to corner the market on questionable #acquisitions. Because who wouldn't want to create a "fully vertically integrated" confusion chamber in the already overcrowded space industry? 🙄📉
    investors.rocketlabcorp.com/ne #RocketLab #SpaceIndustry #VerticalIntegration #HackerNews #ngated

  2. 🚀🎉 Breaking News: Rocket Lab buys #Iridium, aiming to corner the market on questionable #acquisitions. Because who wouldn't want to create a "fully vertically integrated" confusion chamber in the already overcrowded space industry? 🙄📉
    investors.rocketlabcorp.com/ne #RocketLab #SpaceIndustry #VerticalIntegration #HackerNews #ngated

  3. So OpenAI is exploring a move into the chip business. Honestly, it was inevitable. When one supplier has an 80%+ market share and the cost of your primary resource, in this case GPUs, becomes an existential threat, you have two choices: pay up or build your own. This is a classic business strategy story about vertical integration. To control your destiny in the AI arms race, you have to control the supply chain, and that starts with the chips. Sounds like  💭 💡

    TL;DR
    💰 The core driver is cost and scarcity. Nvidia's GPUs are incredibly powerful but also incredibly expensive and hard to get, creating a major bottleneck for AI development.
    ⛓️ This is a classic vertical integration play. By designing its own chips, OpenAI aims to control its supply chain, optimize performance, and reduce dependency on a single vendor.
    🥊 It's a direct challenge to Nvidia's market dominance. While it won't happen overnight, it signals a long term trend of major AI players moving away from off the shelf hardware.
    📈 This move signals the AI industry is maturing. The biggest players are realizing that owning the full stack, from silicon to software, is key to sustainable, scalable growth.

    securityonline.info/openai-is-
    #OpenAI #AI #Nvidia #VerticalIntegration

  4. So OpenAI is exploring a move into the chip business. Honestly, it was inevitable. When one supplier has an 80%+ market share and the cost of your primary resource, in this case GPUs, becomes an existential threat, you have two choices: pay up or build your own. This is a classic business strategy story about vertical integration. To control your destiny in the AI arms race, you have to control the supply chain, and that starts with the chips. Sounds like  💭 💡

    TL;DR
    💰 The core driver is cost and scarcity. Nvidia's GPUs are incredibly powerful but also incredibly expensive and hard to get, creating a major bottleneck for AI development.
    ⛓️ This is a classic vertical integration play. By designing its own chips, OpenAI aims to control its supply chain, optimize performance, and reduce dependency on a single vendor.
    🥊 It's a direct challenge to Nvidia's market dominance. While it won't happen overnight, it signals a long term trend of major AI players moving away from off the shelf hardware.
    📈 This move signals the AI industry is maturing. The biggest players are realizing that owning the full stack, from silicon to software, is key to sustainable, scalable growth.

    securityonline.info/openai-is-
    #OpenAI #AI #Nvidia #VerticalIntegration

  5. YouTub: You can only watch our videos an official YouTub app.

    Sony: You can only play games from the PrayStation store using an official PrayStation console.

    NetFix: You can only watch our streams using our official NetFix TV set (fictional for now, but...)

    What's wrong with this picture?

    #AntiTrust #AntiCompetition #exclusivity #VerticalIntegration

  6. YouTub: You can only watch our videos an official YouTub app.

    Sony: You can only play games from the PrayStation store using an official PrayStation console.

    NetFix: You can only watch our streams using our official NetFix TV set (fictional for now, but...)

    What's wrong with this picture?

    #AntiTrust #AntiCompetition #exclusivity #VerticalIntegration

  7. #Monopoly Case Against #Ticketmaster
    #Antitrust suit against #LiveNation is not about ticket scalping or ticket sales. It's about total domination over entire #concert industry; systematic #verticalintegration of entire live #music business, dominance over tickets, yes, but also over live music venues, artists’ tours, and concert promotion. This dominance has led to downstream effects everyone hates, like higher ticket prices, difficult-to-obtain tickets, ticket brokers.
    404media.co/the-monopoly-case-

  8. #Monopoly Case Against #Ticketmaster
    #Antitrust suit against #LiveNation is not about ticket scalping or ticket sales. It's about total domination over entire #concert industry; systematic #verticalintegration of entire live #music business, dominance over tickets, yes, but also over live music venues, artists’ tours, and concert promotion. This dominance has led to downstream effects everyone hates, like higher ticket prices, difficult-to-obtain tickets, ticket brokers.
    404media.co/the-monopoly-case-

  9. Being in the grape industry, I found this podcast about pistachios interesting as water use is a big issue, marketing has been key to trying to increase demand to meet an upsurge of plantings, and the dominant company in California is vertically integrated, like many wineries...

    Pistachios, The Economics of Everyday Things podcast
    freakonomics.com/podcast/pista

    #Pistachios #Farming #VerticalIntegration #Irrigation #Marketing

  10. Cordless power tool batteries and chargers are such a scam. If Europe is gonna make every cell phone charge with USB-C, can we please standardize power tools? $80 proprietary charger for an $80 proprietary 12V battery. #VerticalIntegration

  11. What 'going #cashless' means, and some of the techniques used in to engineer #compliance to what some see as tyrannical.

    mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.08/64

    We could give-or-take '#360View' podcasts, but this one is for everyone that cares about fundamental and genuine democratic processes — something as basic as choosing where your dollar goes.

    In #Australia cashless #banks/branches have emerged.

    #bankAccounts #verticalIntegration #podcast #monetaryFreedom #currencies #bitcoin #RT #cbdc

  12. I continue to appreciate Cory Doctorow's work. Here's a great edition of his podcast from a few months ago, where he explores the nitty gritty of vertical integration and antitrust regulation in the tech industry. Unlike a lot of work on this subject - which tends to be either worthy but dull or bloody-minded and partisan - this piece is thoughtful, nuanced, and fun to listen to.
    craphound.com/news/2022/03/13/

    #CoryDoctorow #podcast #VerticalIntegration #AntiTrust #regulation