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Companies are competing to launch 100,000 satellites in the next 5 years.
China is building out its own space infrastructure in Latin America.
Ken Rogoff believes the ongoing conflict in Iran will accelerate the decline of the U.S. dollar's status as a global currency.
The premium the U.S. government used to receive on its long-term debt has disappeared when compared to debt from many European countries and Japan.
European and Chinese governments are actively developing independent financial systems to reduce reliance on the U.S. dollar.
Currently, Google sends only about 45% of its search traffic to third-party websites, a figure that continues to decline.
News websites that rely on Google for traffic and ad revenue are experiencing dramatic decreases in referrals.
In 2022, Google Search accounted for 75% of the online audience for publisher People Inc.
Google Search now drives only 25% of the online audience for publisher People Inc.
People Inc. licenses its content to Large Language Model developers and AI companies as a revenue stream.
In July of the previous year, People Inc. partnered with Cloudflare to block all AI crawlers from accessing its content without a licensing agreement.
Rand Fishkin predicts that AI companies like OpenAI or Anthropic will eventually create their own publishing departments and directly fund content creators.