The Waters Cooler: Big Tech, big fines, big tunes
Amazon stumbles on genAI, Google gets fined more money than ever, and Eliot weighs in on the best James Bond film debate.

(Disclaimer: I grew up and live in the UK, and normally I have to write in American English, but as this is meant to be more chill and personal, I’m writing in my normal voice, which spells “colour,” well, like that.)
It must be tricky to be a mogul. When your star is rising, you’re on the cover of magazines, interviewed on late night television, and lauded by your peers when you do something interesting or ground-breaking. But it’s a full-time job, and if your company goes left when others go
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