@Techmeme@techhub.socialInvestment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout (Magdalena Petrova/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/big-tech-ai-underwater-cables.html
@nelson@tech.lgbtOnce again impressed by WiThings. Just bought a new Body Comp scale and it's a lovely new product experience. Their software quality is excellent. Just a great experience.
(And a big raspberry to InBody: did not like their comparable product.)
@memeorandum@universeodon.comKeep hitting US Big Tech with fines, Europe's Greens tell von der Leyen (Max Griera/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/keep-hitting-us-big-tech-fines-europe-greens-tell-ursula-von-der-leyen/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p28#a251207p28
@hakona@im.alstadheim.no
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»Quantenphysik und KI — Warum neue Technologien magisch wirken - und das #BigTech in die Hände spielt:
Während bei einem Kartentrick jeder den Zauber entlarven will, begegnen wir neuer #Technologie gerne mit ehrfürchtigem Staunen. Der Grund hat etwas mit einer ganz rudimentären Angst zu tun, mein…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRegulating Big Tech is like regulating a malignant tumour. You don’t regulate a malignant tumour. You cut it out, with enough of a surgical margin to ensure you get every last putrid bit to avoid regrowth.
(This is moot, of course, as we’re not even regulating Big Tech, we’re feeding it with subsidies, government contracts, and access to national healthcare and other sensitive data while the folks who should be regulating them eye their next lucrative gig beyond the revolving doors of …
@T3chD0g@social.linux.pizza
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgRE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115858971390801673
This is not a plea for everyone to self-host. Communities should host infrastructures in a biased and value-based way: Your community doesn't need to do or setup things in the way big tech or other …
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialFinally, I am no longer relying on OneDrive for offsite backup. Over the course of this year, I have significantly reduced my reliance on big-tech services. 💪
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBig US hospital systems have become a proving ground for AI adoption; a survey finds that 27% of health systems are paying for commercial AI licenses (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/hospitals-are-
@grumpybozo@toad.socialOr one could use LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice and not be dependent on some distant service provider.
Online office suites confuse me. It’s unclear what *modern* problem they address. Sharing files is a solved problem. Common data formats exist. https://mastodon.social/@DevOpsPink/11
@heiseonline@social.heise.deBig Tech 2025: Alphabet und Nvidia dominieren die Börse – den übrigen fehlt Luft
Erstmals seit drei Jahren KI-Hype geriet der AI-Trade 2025 etwas ins Wanken. Das Jahr, in dem Big Tech an der Wall Street teilweise entzaubert wurde.
@rmdes@mstdn.sociallet me rephrase that title : Big Tech basically flipped their script and bowed to the King (other images come to mind but would be very vulgar)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/big-tech-basically-took-trumps-unpredicta…
@cdarwin@c.imAt a time when the majority of Americans distrust big tech
and believe artificial intelligence will harm society,
Silicon Valley has built its own network of alternative media
where CEOs, founders and investors
are the unchallenged and beloved stars.
What was once the province of a few fawning podcasters
has grown into a fully fledged ecosystem of publications and shows
supported by some of the tech industry’s most powerful.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioidk instead of hoping that your Big Tech software vendor—who had many data leaks before and was sued many times for abusing customer data—doesn't steal your data for AI training you could maybe not store your data in a Big Tech cloud
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org"for the rest of us who don’t have the technical knowledge and time to follow his accomplishments, his advice is to “Never use your primary WiFi network for IoT devices” and to “Treat them as strangers in your home.” "
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBig Tech's AI data center plans, which are set to need an estimated 44GW of additional capacity by 2028, face a power crunch that could deflate the AI "bubble" (Financial Times)
https://ig.ft.com/ai-power/
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energyBig Tech, business groups and the governor successfully gutted State Sen. Steve Padilla's attempt to protect consumers from the costs, emissions & unintended consequences of the AI data center frenzy. Big money wins again! https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAs Trump and Big Tech aim to build SMRs to win the AI race, a look at the issues they face; none of the 50 SMRs under development have a US operating license (Jamie Smyth/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9f6c4db1-559f-48e1-8c21-ac0bc1a1237c
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.socialBig Tech is neoliberalism's wet dream!
There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech: The path
to a post-American internet
by @…
https://
@boris@cosocial.ca@… great meeting you at #IETF124
I shared Cyd with you https://cyd.social/ and yes, wo…
@cdarwin@c.imTech Billionaire investor Marc Andreessen has long criticized the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
— calling it an impediment to fintech and crypto companies. 
Andreessen’s investment firm (Andreessen Horowitz aka A16Z) backed many fintech/crypto players that were under CFPB scrutiny,
Under the Trump administration, the CFPB’s enforcement efforts were sharply scaled back:
investigations suspended,
consumer-protection rule-makings shelved,
and …
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaRE: https://mastodon.social/@dzwiedziu/115667856718533807
The EU loves slapping big tech with a tiny hammer. 😐
@brichapman@mastodon.socialElectric cargo ships crossing oceans could be just 3 years away. CATL's marine division has already supplied batteries for 900 vessels and is making big strides with sodium-ion tech.
Falling battery prices are finally making long-range electric shipping economically viable—a huge step toward zero-carbon ocean freight.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft, Meta, and sources say, Google will not publish diversity reports and data this year; Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia released diversity data this year (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-microsoft-and-meta-have-s…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialWenn Big Tech zu Hoflieferanten der Macht wird und sich CEO Hoettges „inspiriert“ von Donald Trumps Industriekurs zeigt, ist das kein Wirtschaftskonzept, sondern Verrat an digitaler Souveränität. Sascha Pallenberg legt die Doppelmoral der Tech-Eliten offen. Fortschritt ohne Haltung ist nur Zynismus.
@…
@nic@geno.socialEs gibt noch freie Plätze:
Grundlagen nachhaltiger Digitalisierung für Genossenschaften, Kollektivbetriebe, Vereine und Initiativen.
Dank Förderung ohne Teilnahmegebühr.
Anmeldung und Info: https://veranstaltung.solidarische-landwirtschaft.org/digtal-nh/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de39C3: Digital Independence Day – CCC-Sprecher über Weg raus aus Big Tech
Auf dem Hackerkongress 39C3 wurde der Digital Independence Day ausgerufen. Warum und was das bedeutet, erklärt CCC-Sprecher Linus Neumann im Interview.
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialhttps://www.theargumentmag.com/p/treat-big-tech-like-big-tobacco
I expected to hate this take but actually I think it's great. Curation should be speech, not hosting. Plan accordingly.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialJimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google and reader donations are "not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@mirolucassen@mastodon.nlYES! Proton Drive heeft nu ook spreadsheets waar je samen aan kunt werken. Nog lang niet alle snufjes maar de basis is er. Belangrijk om een echt alternatief voor Big Tech te bieden voor wie geen server in eigen beheer heeft
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUsers of ByteDance's agentic AI phone Nubia M153 report that its Doubao assistant is blocked or limited by Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and other apps (Cissy Zhou/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115840252209889277
I'm thoroughly convinced that a lot of the problems we have as a society in general and with the tech industry in particular is toxic positivity—when people just can't get themselves to call out bad things for what they are; it's so often I see needless defending of bad work or outright insults hurled at customers by big corporations, and endless calls for a false civility.
@rigo@mamot.frI think the concept is similar to Amazon who has killed retail to get a dominant position and then to monetize that position. The AI stuff is cheap and we shall get used to it. And then they slowly start boiling the frog. First, because it is integrated everywhere and one can't escape it. Second, because we lose our ability to do without.
IMHO, this bet can go terribly wrong if people will not become dependent on AI, just use it where it makes sense and is affordable.
@emd@cosocial.caWhy I always go pick the food up myself. https://mastodon.social/@amirbkhan/115826283829344704
@metacurity@infosec.exchange
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialAmazon laid off 14K people, and commentators rush to blame #AI. But not even Jassy claims that Amazon has replaced jobs with #LLM tools (because it is impossible).
Big tech believed that AI would lead to higher velocity, somehow. Jassy has given up on it, and instead thinks that *culture* will lead to …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Google, Meta, Netflix, Microsoft, and Amazon will not be included in the EU's Digital Networks Act, despite calls from telecoms companies (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@servelan@newsie.socialBig Tech sues Texas, says age-verification law is “broad censorship regime” - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/big-tech-sues-texas-says-age-verification-law-is-broad-censorship-regime/
@cdarwin@c.im
@rberger@hachyderm.io"That's it. That's why every government in the world allowed US Big Tech companies to declare open season on their people's private data and ready cash.
The alternative was tariffs. Well, I don't know if you've heard, but we've got tariffs now!
I mean, if someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow their orders, and then they burn your house down anyway, you don't have to keep following their orders. So…Happy Liberation Day?" - @…
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
@anneroth@systemli.socialWho would have guessed.
Big Tech is paying millions to train teachers on AI, in a push to bring chatbots into classrooms
https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-teacher-union-microsoft-f7554b6550fb90519dd8129acac8e2…
@publicvoit@graz.socialPodcast-Episoden-Empfehlung:
#AuchDasNoch? #RicardaLang zu #SocialMedia-Beeinflussung: "Wir sind nicht wehrlos"
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialMailing Lists? In this day and age!?
I've been pointed to Groups.io and Gaggle Mail as alternatives to Google Groups for a mailing list, but I've love to hear about others.
Google Groups tends to be a default for many people doing a mailing list because it's free and well known, but I want to offer an alternative to Google and other big US-based tech companies.
Any other suggestions?
(Thanks to @…
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialDevelopers doing the mental gymnastics of justifying spending thousands of $$$ to cloud providers and big tech to avoid paying a small software vendor a single $.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTreat Big Tech like Big Tobacco (Joel Wertheimer/The Argument)
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/treat-big-tech-like-big-tobacco
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p15#a251021p15
@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.orgThe Plan Is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever.
https://novaramedia.com/2025/12/07/the-plan-is-to-make-the-internet-worse-and-big-tech-rich/
An interesting interview with Cory Doctorow.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
@stargazer@woof.tech#WritersCoffeeClub
19. How do you keep track of dates and events in a WIP?
20. What rôle does death (or undeath!) play in your work?
21. What is your take on the adverb debate?
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19. Any WIP that needs dates and events is probably already big enough to void memorization.
I went all the way from stickies to txt files to wikis to, eventually, Campfire. I love m…
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialDoxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People’s Private Data
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.
👉 https://www.wired.com/stor…
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizzaWell this explains all the creators suddenly getting community guidelines takedowns for harmful content. YouTube has a serious AI problem.
#AI #YouTube #Enshittification
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQualcomm unveils the Dragonwing IQ10 Series, a full-stack robotics architecture integrating hardware, software, and AI for industrial and consumer humanoids (Katie Collins/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/qualcomm-announces-dragonwing-iq10-…
@cdarwin@c.imEven before Microsoft Azure had a global failure this week,
Austria's Ministry of Economy had taken a decisive step toward digital sovereignty.
The Ministry is migrating 1,200 employees to a Nextcloud-based cloud and collaboration platform hosted on Austrian-based infrastructure
It's the latest move in a European trend to shift away from Big Tech.
European governments and agencies want to control sensitive data.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDeepSeek researchers detail a new mHC architecture they used to train 3B, 9B, and 27B models, finding it scaled without adding significant computational burden (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article
@mirolucassen@mastodon.nlBig tech kiest voor een schaamteloze prijsverhoging. Ik probeer het de komende maanden zonder dit product.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAfter Big Tech implemented a blackout on political advertising in the EU following a new law, the European Commission says it's in talks with Big Tech (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-political-ad-rules-google-meta-microsoft-big-…
@cdarwin@c.imMarc Andreessen is one of America’s most well-known investors and an outsize figure in the so-called fintech industry.
His firm seeded eight companies since 2016 that landed in the crosshairs of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
-- the small watchdog agency that Congress created after the 2008 financial crisis to protect vulnerable consumers from exploitation.
Some of those inquiries have resulted in consent orders, fines and, for one company, a lifetime industry ba…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgNot that many people here will need it, but as an indicator it's interesting:
In case you're looking for an alternative New Year resolution, Denmark has a new people's movement: Danmark skifter, Denmark switches, which aims to help people regain focus, change their social media habits and get off US big tech platforms.
Here's their English website:
https://danmarkskifter.dk/en/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBig Tech's EU lobbying hit €151M in 2025, up from €113M in 2023 and €97M in 2021; between January and June 2025, Big Tech had 146 meetings with EU officials (Corporate Europe Observatory)
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/big-tech-lobby-budgets-hit-re…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alHow could this happen in a country that *checks notes* has made itself entirely beholden to US Big Tech and Big Pharma?
#Ireland
@cdarwin@c.imIreland has been every bit as important in exporting US Big Tech around the world as the US has been.
But Ireland has another key export, one that is confined to the European Union.
Because every tax haven must be a crime haven,
and because Big Tech's favorite crime is illegal surveillance,
Ireland has exported American tech spying to the whole European Union.
-- @…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioMy big gripe with "AI" is that a big reason why it's sold as the second coming of Jesus is that most tech people fundamentally do not understand how it actually works.
Their reasoning goes something like, "It works sort of ok for code generation, and programming is the hardest possible thing in the world to do, every other human endeavor is trivial compared to writing code, therefore it must excel at anything else!".
So it ends up being pushed due to a mixture of ignorance and hubris; and especially being stuffed into things it should never be used for (usually when users don't have a say which software they need to use for work).
The finbros are happily along for the ride because they just need something that can be hyped to pump and dump.
@heiseonline@social.heise.deZum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
39C3: Die Krux mit der digitalen Souveränität | c’t uplink
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialBig Tech ist Europas Lobby-Champion: Mit 151 Mio. € hat die Branche 2025 alle Rekorde gebrochen. Fünf der sechs größten EU-Lobbyakteure kommen aus dem Silicon Valley. 720 Parlamentarier stehen 890 Digital-Lobbyisten gegenüber. Microsoft, Meta & Co üben Druck wegen der Digitalgesetze DSA, DMA und AI Act aus. Knickt von der Leyen ein? #netzpolitik
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: ByteDance plans to spend about $14B on Nvidia's AI chips in 2026, an increase of about 18% from 2025 (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3338191/bytedance-pour-u…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA draft shows the European Commission plans to propose a simplification package on Nov. 19 to pause parts of its AI laws amid pressure from Big Tech and the US (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/af6c6dbe-ce63-47cc-8923-8bce4007f6e1
@heiseonline@social.heise.deMontag: Rückkehr der Vorratsdatenspeicherung, Deutschlandfonds für Tech-Boost
Gesetzentwurf in ministerieller Abstimmung Milliarden-Boost für Big-Tech Warnung von US-Firmen vor Visa-Prüfung Avatar-Spiel unterschätzt Trump pro Mond
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFrench President Emmanuel Macron criticizes the EU for being too slow to act on probes into Big Tech companies, attributing the delay to US pressure against DSA (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-afraid-of-tackling-us-big-tech-em…
@cdarwin@c.imFlying drones used during the Ukraine war have changed land battle tactics for ever.
Now the same thing appears to be happening under the sea.
Navies around the world are racing to add autonomous submarines.
https://www.theguardian.com…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»Digitale Souveränität beginnt dort, wo Allianzen und Appeasement enden:
Airbus, SAP, Capgemini, Forschung, Big Tech: Warum Allianzen keine Sicherheit bieten, Appeasement keine Strategie ist – und digitale Souveränität nur durch Unabhängigkeit entsteht.«
Es ist nicht simpel absolut unabhängig von den Supportern zu sein und einen erheblichen Aufwand. Doch dies entschuldigt gewisse Gläubigkeit von gewissen Open-Source Tools nicht.
🐧
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFrench lawmakers vote to raise France's digital services tax on US tech giants to 6%, up from 3%; the French government opposes the move, fearing US retaliation (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/french-lawmakers-progress-tax…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioWe have the most powerful personal computers ever at home and in our pockets yet we use them mostly as glorified terminals to Big Tech mainframes
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAs fascism descends, you are going to need easy to access and use alternatives to Big Tech (aka Fascist Tech).
So maybe bookmark the Chatons collective site initiated by our friends at Framasoft with hosted versions of free-software services for collaborative writing, video conferencing, scheduling appointments, collaborative spreadsheets, file sharing, picture sharing, etc.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Aaron Greenspan, who has spent years on a crusade to expose what he believes are financial problems at Tesla and at big tech companies (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/busines
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources and docs: after Marc Andreessen donated $5M to Trump's 2024 campaign, most CFPB probes have stalled, including three into Andreessen-backed companies (Jake Pearson/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-vall…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deGutachter: EU-Kommission will eine "uferlose Sonderrechtszone" für KI
In einer Rechtsanalyse für Verbraucherschützer warnen Experten vor massiven Schutzlücken durch den geplanten "digitalen EU-Omnibus". Big Tech werde bevorzugt.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBig Tech got almost everything it wanted from President Trump, as he backs policies that allow the industry to grow unfettered, worrying some conservatives (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/technol<…
@cdarwin@c.imWith the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year:
smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts.
But before you give one, think twice about what you're opting that person into.
One big problem with giving these sorts of gifts is that you're opting another person into a company's intrusive surveillance prac…
@Techmeme@techhub.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialIn their latest earnings reports, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon have announced plans to increase their AI spending in 2026 to a combined $400B (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/b…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialJimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google and reader donations are "not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTech whistleblowers like Yaël Eisenstat say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives and careers; Meta is in litigation with Sarah Wynn-Williams (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/15/big-tech-whist…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEU officials and policymakers say the EC will intensify its enforcement of the DMA and DSA in 2026, a move expected to renew clashes with US Big Tech and Trump (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ca6f3062-f286-4a13-b81d-6e2a35c91fdc
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlibaba halves Qwen3-Max prices, from $0.861 to $0.459 per 1M input tokens and $3.441 to $1.836 per 1M output tokens for API users, amid China's AI price wars (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEU member states agree a position on draft child protection legislation without forcing Big Tech to find and remove CSAM; states now negotiate with EU lawmakers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAfter Big Tech implemented a blackout on political advertising in the EU following a new law, the European Commission says it is in talks with Big Tech (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-political-ad-rules-google-meta-microsoft-big-tec…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with NYC mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani on social media, tech leaders, Trump, fame, Apple's and Google's "wrong decision" to remove ICEBlock, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-zohran-mamd…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOver the past month, the US paused talks on a tech pact with the UK, canceled a South Korea trade meeting, and threatened the EU over Big Tech regulations (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/23/trump-administra…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFilings: Meta spent the most on US lobbying in Q3, spending $5.8M, followed by Amazon, Google, Apple; Anthropic, Nvidia, and a16z hit $1M for the first time (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/tech-lobbying-insights-q3
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn overview of macro tech trends for 2026, as "AI eats the world": bubbles, the AI platform shift, Big Tech FOMO, capex, Nvidia, US power backlogs, and more (Benedict Evans)
https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe AI buildout, surpassing railroads and the internet, moves Big Tech from its successful asset-light model, and prior booms have resulted in overinvestment (Kai Wu/Sparkline Capital)
https://www.sparklinecapital.com/post/surviving-the-ai-capex-boom
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWhile the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/11/21/boom-bubble-bust…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta just bought into the enterprise market with its Manus deal, which may eventually help it expand into cloud offerings like those of its Big Tech peers (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/meta-manus-deal/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: tech lobbyists say that David Sacks' push for an EO blocking state AI laws undercut their efforts to craft a permanent, bipartisan federal solution (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/20/big-tech-gets-worried-about-trumps…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at ChatGPT's impact on US stocks three years after its release: AI mania revived Big Tech, making an already concentrated S&P 500 even more top heavy (Bloomberg)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEU lawmakers agree on new rules that hold platforms like Meta and TikTok liable for financial scams that have been reported, requiring them to compensate banks (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/social-media-giants-meta-tik…
