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Fortune Tech: Waymo's New York speed bump; Bill Gates cancels AI keynote; Meta splits VR
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Bill Gates cancels AI keynote; Meta splits VR group. Plus: OpenAI, Google Gemini, Apple, Microsoft. - Fortune (2026-02-20)
It’s not as if fierce rivalries are a new thing in business.
Walmart and Amazon have been locked in a duel for global retail supremacy for years.
And as Fortune’s Phil Wahba reports, Amazon achieved a major milestone in 2025 by becoming the world’s l