Claude Shannon's paper that kicked off the entire field of information theory was published in the Bell System Technical Journal.
I share the thread's concern over this much centralization of power, but it is worth mentioning that private-sector pure research isn't exactly new. In fact it feels like we had a lot more of it in the 1900s, maybe it's good that it's at least getting revived a bit.
Claude Shannon's paper that kicked off the entire field of information theory was published in the Bell System Technical Journal.
I share the thread's concern over this much centralization of power, but it is worth mentioning that private-sector pure research isn't exactly new. In fact it feels like we had a lot more of it in the 1900s, maybe it's good that it's at least getting revived a bit.