Why Walmart is basically a tech company now

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After building up fast-growing e-commerce and advertising businesses, moving its stock to the Nasdaq, and, as of Tuesday, crossing $1 trillion in valuation, Walmart is starting to look a lot more like a big tech company.

Walmart’s market cap was $1.02 trillion at the end of the day Tuesday after its stock climbed more than 28% over the past year, according to CNBC. It joined the Nasdaq exchange, also home to technology companies like Amazon, in December. In the company’s third quarter, which ended in October, its global e-commerce business grew 27% year over year, with its Walmart Connect advertising business in the U.S. up 33%, according to its earnings release.

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The Athletic invests in live blogs, video to insulate sports coverage from AI scraping

As the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics collide this week, The New York Times-owned publication The Athletic is playing up coverage that is harder for AI bots to lift: live blogs and video. 

At least, that’s the hope.

While live blogs have been around for years, The Athletic sees live formats as a way to keep audiences on its platform, while insulating its reporting from getting scraped and repurposed by AI tools.

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