6Pages Market Shifts
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 18 minutes
- Episodes
- 107
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
3 Shifts Edition (Sep 5 2025): Google's search antitrust remedies, GEO is the new SEO for AI, Uber & Lyft's deal to let drivers unionize
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First, remedies in the Google search antitrust case have dropped – and Google has come out relatively unscathed. While Goog…
3 Shifts Edition (Aug 29 2025): A marked shift in Fed policy, The bifurcation of entry-level jobs, AI players circle the browser
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First, the Fed signaled a policy shift last week, with Powell framing a recalibration of the Fed’s inflation strategy away …
3 Shifts Edition (Aug 22 2025): Google's AI for the home and on the go, How hackers are now using AI, The up-and-coming Chinese agentic startup Manus
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First, Google’s new Gemini-powered hardware is tempting iPhone users to cross over. Gemini for Home is a major smart-home u…
3 Shifts Edition (Aug 15 2025): Amazon expands same-day grocery delivery, Trump cuts space-industry regulation, The problem with AI connectors
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First, Amazon is expanding same-day fresh grocery delivery to 1,000+ cities, with plans to more than double that by end of …
3 Shifts Edition (Aug 8 2025): OpenAI unveils GPT-5 & open LLMs, ElevenLabs & legal AI-generated music, DeepMind's real-time world model
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First, OpenAI dropped GPT-5 this week, along with its first open-weight models in a long while. While GPT-5 might be the be…
3 Shifts Edition (Aug 1 2025): Enterprises prefer Anthropic vs. OpenAI, EPA begins its repeal of the endangerment finding, Is autonomous trucking almost here?
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First, enterprises now prefer Anthropic’s Claude over OpenAI, according to Menlo Ventures. Anthropic is the new leader in …
3 Shifts Edition (Jul 25 2025): Smart jewelry is back in style, Uber and Lyft riders get more choices, Lab-cultured pork fat gets approval
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First, smart jewelry is suddenly one of the hottest fronts in the AI device race. Amazon just acquired Bee’s always-listeni…
3 Shifts Edition (Jul 18 2025): AI takes aim at financial analysts, Stablecoins and the GENIUS Act, The problem of rare-earth shortages
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First, AI is taking aim at financial analysts. Anthropic’s Claude for Financial Services can analyze market data, build DCF…
3 Shifts Edition (Jul 11 2025): Copyrights and AI training data, Robots take hold in warehousing, The US push for more nuclear plants
Hi everyone – we’re back! Much has happened in the world of market shifts while we were on hiatus, so much that we even considered making this a “17 shifts” catch-up edition. In lieu of that, we have…
3 Shifts Edition (Jun 13 2025): Shrinkages in the US labor market, Scale AI and Meta's $15B investment, Deep-sea desalination
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First, the US labor market is shrinking in ways that feel more structural than cyclical, with a declining employment-popula…
3 Shifts Edition (Jun 6 2025): Mary Meeker’s newest trends report, AI’s hunt for distribution partners, Rewriting legacy codebases with AI
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First, Mary Meeker is back with another 300+ slide deck, her first Trends report since 2019 – this one focused on AI. We hi…
3 Shifts Edition (May 30 2025): California may lose its emissions waivers, App stores will need to verify ages, “Vibe coding” and personal apps
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First, California’s longtime leadership on climate regulation may be coming to an end. Congress just voted to revoke Califo…
3 Shifts Edition (May 23 2025): AI slop and its farmers, CRISPR therapies for individuals, Xiaomi's 3nm mobile chip
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First, AI slop is spreading like kudzu and it’s more than just annoying spam – it’s a threat to online ecosystems as we kno…
3 Shifts Edition (May 16 2025): The rise of APIs for AI web search, Crypto's regulatory barriers come down, The Airbnb of services
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First, we delve into the rise of APIs for AI web search, with Anthropic recently joining Google, Perplexity, OpenAI, and ot…
3 Shifts Edition (May 9 2025): What Apple's payments ruling means, Card networks open up to AI agents, Multi-agent AI systems are live
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First, a federal judge laid down the hammer on Apple last week for “willful violation” of her 2021 injunction. Developers l…
3 Shifts Edition (May 2 2025): The flurry around robotaxis, AI players inch towards ads, Interpretability & how AI models think
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3 Shifts Edition (Apr 25 2025): Restarting student loan collections, Protein snacks and everything, The problem with AI benchmarks
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First, the US government is restarting student loan collections, with garnishment of wages, social-security benefits, and t…
3 Shifts Edition (Apr 18 2025): The growth of AI big tech, What’s coming back to the US, DHgate & factory-direct shopping
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First, OpenAI is on its way to becoming the next consumer big tech giant, with ChatGPT surging to 800M+ weekly users. Both …
3 Shifts Edition (Apr 11 2025): The tariff rollercoaster and China, Navigating the de minimis closure, Google Workspace’s automation flows
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First, Trump’s tariff rollercoaster is giving the markets whiplash, with a surprise 90-day pause on most “reciprocal” tarif…
3 Shifts Edition (Apr 4 2025): Blanket tariffs and the auto industry, Amazon becomes a full-fledged studio, Instacart maps store shelves
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First, Trump’s blanket tariffs are crashing the economy, with nearly all major US trading partners hit with new levies. Som…