Interesting, can this be an expected outcome of AI adoption? Mergers of big competitors?
Seems to be the expected outcome of everything, in every industry, for the past 10 years or so.
It’s the expected outcome of capitalism in the absence of effective market regulation.
just capitalism in the final stage
Remember Conglomerates? It just keeps changing name.
Free competitive markets are not an emergent natural phenomenon, they are a technology of civilised societies, and without governments constantly keeping markets free, we keep reverting back to to robber barons and eventually petty warlord kings, that's the natural low-energy state of humans if you let it go unchecked.