@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-04 17:56:00
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-04 17:56:00
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-02-04 20:21:27
By 2027, 2.5 million French civil servants will stop using video conference tools from U.S. providers — including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex and GoTo Meeting — and switch to Visio, a homegrown service.
https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-03 18:32:05
idk 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
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-05 14:25:41
Qualcomm 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-…
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energy2026-01-02 21:43:21
Big 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.social2026-02-05 10:10:45
A look at India's push to become a major provider of AI services, as US tech companies pledge tens of billions in Indian data center investments (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-te…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-29 17:47:48
At 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.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-04 11:55:51
Jimmy 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
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-12-29 19:11:48
let 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…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-04 06:00:32
@mirolucassen@mastodon.nl2025-12-05 06:55:25
Big tech kiest voor een schaamteloze prijsverhoging. Ik probeer het de komende maanden zonder dit product.
@haayman@todon.nl2026-02-01 12:29:04
Hear hear!
Universiteit Groningen probeert zich los te rukken van big tech: ‘Geen alternatief voor Microsoft’ | BNR Nieuwsradio
https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/tech-innovatie/10593189/universite…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-01 16:15:29
DeepSeek 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
@emd@cosocial.ca2026-01-02 21:13:55
Why I always go pick the food up myself. https://mastodon.social/@amirbkhan/115826283829344704
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-03 16:45:09
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
39C3: Die Krux mit der digitalen Souveränität | c’t uplink
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-01 16:51:23
Ireland 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.
-- @…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-04 03:11:19
Recon: the US market share of Copilot as paid users' first choice fell from 18.8% in July 2025 to 11.5% in January 2026, while Gemini's rose from 12.8% to 15.7% (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsofts-piv
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-02-02 12:48:49
A common effort between 23 different local authorities* in Denmark to develop FOSS alternatives to big US tech in Danish schools.
I am here for this
Ja, tak 🙏
*But not apparently my local authority...
@… - @bettina alle kan læse mere om projektet her:
Https://www.os2.eu/OS2skole
@nelson@tech.lgbt2026-01-25 15:50:37
Just saw how various websites are using 50 GB total in Chrome. A big culprit is every site with an embedded YouTube video seems to have its own copy of 313MB of YouTube crap. It's partitioned for privacy purposes and I'm guessing nothing is de-duping that storage. I wonder if every site has to download it too?
@rberger@hachyderm.io2026-01-01 22:33:14
"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
@trezzer@social.linux.pizza2026-01-26 06:46:43
Wow. Finally a truly good article about moving away from big tech in the national news here in Denmark. And yes, Mastodon is in it. It’s not a perfect list, but it’s the first good one I’ve seen outside of personal blogs. https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/viden/teknolo…
@neuhaus@mastodon.acm.org2026-01-03 07:24:20
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-02-02 05:53:28
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-25 16:50:37
ICE Asks Companies About 'Ad Tech and Big Data' Tools It Could Use in Investigations (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-asks-companies-about-ad-tech-and-big-data-tools/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p35#a260125p35
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-04 10:55:47
Jimmy 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
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-12-14 08:05:18
Doxers 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…
@johnleonard@mastodon.social2026-01-21 14:56:37
Comments by heads of Amazon, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI and others, many delivered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, reveal a shift of narrative from optimistic inevitability towards recognition of geopolitical tensions, energy scarcity, economic bubbles and the race to make AI truly useful.
https://www.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-12-28 07:03:00
Big 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.
@publicvoit@graz.social2025-12-29 22:23:30
Podcast-Episoden-Empfehlung:
#AuchDasNoch? #RicardaLang zu #SocialMedia-Beeinflussung: "Wir sind nicht wehrlos"
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-12-12 09:30:57
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-04 06:10:39
EU 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
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-12-31 14:32:03
Mailing 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 @…
@gevoel@mastodon.green2025-11-29 15:54:19
Geen persoonsgegevens voor Big Tech-lobbyisten! | WeMove Europe
https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11-dpc-ireland-petition-NL/?referring_akid=16801.1140952.VhuFml&source=mailto
> Een voormalig lobbyi…
@villavelius@mastodon.online2025-12-01 08:39:54
Like financial transactions, barter transactions are treated as taxable supplies for VAT purposes as well in the EU.
Italy has considered that handing over personal details in exchange for services, as e.g. in the case of Facebook, is barter, and therefore VAT-able. If they succeed in making that work, other EU member states are bound to follow. Big tech platforms are worried, especially as the EU Commission agrees with the Italian stance. Interesting.
@trezzer@social.linux.pizza2026-01-26 07:01:59
Det var på tide med en god artikel om alternativerne hos DR! https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/viden/teknologi/kan-man-klare-sig-uden-amerikansk-big-tech-her-er-nogle-af-alternativerne
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-02 13:42:02
Trump has effectively turned the White House into a slush fund,
running the federal government like a personal ATM.
Public money, political favors and government power are funneled to his friends and family businesses,
while regulatory agencies and enforcement mechanisms are hollowed out or weaponized for profit.
His oligarch allies, from big tech executives to big oil barons, are already seeing massive returns on their political investments.
This is not demo…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-31 01:21:10
Sources: 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…
@kingconsult@berlin.social2025-12-04 11:02:57
> There are now more #BigTech lobbyists than #MEPs¹
➡️ We think: Effective action for democratic, public-interest-oriented, independent #SocialMedia are becoming increasingly important in light of the power of digital corporations.
How do democratic parties intend to suport digitally #sovereign public communication?
@… @… @… @…
¹ 12.11.2025 New episode of EU Watchdog Radio by @…
#SPD #Grüne #Bundestag
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-24 14:33:36
What life is like for Palestinians from Gaza on centralised, US-based, Big Tech networks like Bluesky (yes, it’s all those things… did something about them make you think otherwise?)
#Bluesky #complicity #genocide
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-01-01 09:59:14
Not 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/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-11-28 06:29:40
Good news, any progress in more federated social media is a good thing in my view.
https://openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky-dawns-building-infrastructure-for-sovereign-social-media/
@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org2025-12-15 17:02:48
The 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.
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2025-12-23 11:56:46
Interesting article about trust when providing services for others:
https://blog.avas.space/alternatives-trust/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-12-28 21:02:00
39C3: 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.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-26 15:24:48
My 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.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-28 15:45:39
French 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…
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2026-01-27 18:49:57
Many are surprised as the owners/managers of big high-tech companies have embraced and paid de facto bribes to trump.
I was part of the silicon valley (and Boston) era when those now-huge companies got started.
Having observed many of the people who controlled those then-new companies, I am not surprised that those companies are now institutions of political reaction and economic concentration.
Back then the Silicon valley was filled with cocaine and money-worshiping people…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-28 07:32:05
Flying 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…
@der_raddler@dresden.network2026-01-27 20:48:29
Zwei #Podcast Tipps zum Abend:
Im Hörsaal klärt Martin Andree noch einmal sehr kurzweilig darüber auf, dass das Versprechen der Techkonzerne von freien Internet eine Lüge ist und sie an der digitalen Oligarchie arbeiten.
Hörsaal - Deutschlandfunk Nova: Populismus als Waffe - Wie Big Tech Demokratie und Öffentlichkeit kaputtmacht
Webseite der Episode:
@anneroth@systemli.social2025-12-19 16:18:12
In acht Tagen spreche ich im #39C3 Sendezentrum im c’t uplink Podcast mit @… und anderen Gästen über #DigitaleSouveränität.
Habt Ihr dazu in letzter Z…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2025-11-18 08:51:00
Agora Digitale Transformation fordert: mehr Geld & Strategie für offene Plattformen – von Fediverse bis Bluesky (??). Europas digitale Öffentlichkeit darf nicht länger an BigTech hängen. Souveränität heißt: offene Infrastruktur statt Abhängigkeit. 1-Prinzip jetzt konsequent umsetzen!
#DigitaleSouveränität
@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk2025-11-19 21:18:33
Yet it comes with a big risk. That is, the incredible dependence of US stock market growth on the performance of a handful of tech giants. The Magnificent 7 - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla - collectively comprise one third of the valuation of America's entire S&P 500.
BBC News - The Silicon Valley 'AI factory' at the heart of the tech race - BBC News
@kctipton@mas.to2025-11-17 21:33:05
US may owe $1 trillion in refunds if SCOTUS cancels Trump tariffs - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/tariff-refunds-may-get-messy-if-trump-loses-supreme-court-fight/
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-28 06:19:50
https://restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-india-alternative-ai-llms/
Thanks @… for sharing!
@stargazer@woof.tech2025-11-17 07:26:13
#WritersCoffeeClub
10. What have you recently learned which will have a big impact on your work?
11. How accessible is your work?
12. How can writers ensure the focus is on the work and not the writer? Or should they?
---
10. That's a hard question.
I fear I've reached a plateau where nothing freshly learned can do that.
11. It consists of words.
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2025-11-19 10:13:43
Which big tech service is going down next?
@frankel@mastodon.top2025-11-10 17:30:04
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-11-22 17:06:00
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-01-23 07:05:07
»USA und China rüsten bei KI massiv auf – diese Szenarien drohen Europa:
Digitale Souveränität statt Abhängigkeit von Big-Tech-Konzernen - Dieses für das demokratische Europa erstrebenswerte Ziel wird durch die KI-Offensiven der Amerikaner und Chinesen infrage gestellt. Eine aktuelle Studie zeigt vier Zukunftsszenarien auf.«
Ich frage mich wann die KI-Lücke real wird und in welchem Ausmaß für wen?
🤖
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-29 03:50:24
Big 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<…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-23 15:12:00
heise | Tschüss, Big Tech: Acht sichere E-Mail-Alternativen aus Europa im Vergleich
Gmail, iCloud, Outlook – die größten E-Mail-Anbieter sitzen in den USA. Mit diesen europäischen Alternativen erklären Sie Ihre digitale Unabhängigkeit.
@nelson@tech.lgbt2025-11-09 01:32:27
Once 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.)
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-01-20 06:32:28
Zo typerend dit,
"DNB laat na vragen in eerste instantie weten dat e-mail niet toegankelijk is voor Microsoft omdat de berichten ‘end-to-end beveiligd blijven’. Geconfronteerd met het oordeel van security-experts, erkent de bank vervolgens dat dit antwoord onjuist is en dat ‘technische toegang’ tot de data in ‘uitzonderlijke scenario’s’ mogelijk is."
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-13 23:11:01
Australia begins consultations with publishers and platforms on its News Bargaining Incentive, requiring Big Tech to pay local publishers or face new taxes (April Ossington/Channel News)
https://www.channelnews.com.au/australia-m
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-11 21:46:00
Hochul Caves to Big Tech on AI Safety Bill (David Dayen/American Prospect)
https://prospect.org/2025/12/11/hochul-caves-big-tech-ai-safety-bill-new-york/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p117#a251211p117
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-29 02:13:36
With 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…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-12-22 08:05:37
»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.
🐧
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-07 08:07:25
Regulating 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 …
@kingconsult@berlin.social2026-02-04 18:45:34
> Bei ihrem Blick in der #TikTok-Redaktion „#Hochkant“ von @… wurde deutlich, welchen Druck die Hosts aushalten müssen, um an der jungen Zielgruppe dranzubleiben. Einer sagt süffisant: „Ich bekomme #Hates für Augenbrauen und fürs Dasein!“ ¹
➡️ Wir denken: Junge Menschen wollen gute Inhalte und folgen guten #Medien in gute Netzwerke. Mehr Mut! Wir unterstützen.
¹ 31.1.2026 #verdi #MMM, #Journalismus in Zeiten von #BigTech
#ZeitOnline #Presse #DutGemacht #journalism
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-12-22 05:18:00
Montag: 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
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-25 03:39:25
Did you know?
You can help struggling billionaire owners of big tech companies that can’t build AI data centers fast enough by closing accounts and canceling subscriptions
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-14 10:45:55
US Big Tech companies have been on an energy-related hiring spree; Workforce.AI says Microsoft has hired 570 people with energy-related expertise since 2022 (Tasmin Lockwood/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/14/big-tech-google-microsoft-energy-hiring-ai.html…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-09 16:33:00
Digital Networks Act: EU verzichtet angeblich auf Milliardenstrafen für Big Tech
Der Digital Networks Act sollte Big Tech zur Kasse bitten. Doch statt harter Regulierung erwarten Netflix, Google und Meta nun Dialog und Handreichungen.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-07 16:45:33
Keep 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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-24 12:15:39
The EU unconditionally approves Omnicom's $13.25B all-stock deal to buy Interpublic, creating the world's largest ad agency to better compete with Big Tech (Bart Meijer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/eu-approves-omnicoms…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-26 15:50:58
EU 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.social2025-12-15 12:20:42
Tech 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.social2025-11-14 12:55:51
Alibaba 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
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-12-21 10:24:00
Gutachter: 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.social2025-12-24 06:05:49
Over 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.social2025-12-30 15:20:33
Meta 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/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-28 06:44:51
Frankreich nimmt die digitale Souveränität selbst in die Hand. Mit der flächendeckenden Einführung der Videokonferenzplattform Visio verabschiedet sich der Staat von US-Diensten wie Microsoft Teams und Zoom.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11155120?wt_mc=sm.re<…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-23 01:42:49
Apple is nearing a deal with Google that would see the iPhone maker pay the tech giant roughly
$1 billion a year for a custom version of Google’s Gemini AI model
to power its overhaul of Siri.
The move is a big one for Apple,
which has traditionally relied on its own technology
but plans to use Google’s model as a temporary solution until its own AI becomes powerful enough,
including to power a slate of upcoming features for the voice assistant.
The…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-20 11:10:55
An 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.social2025-11-29 07:35:46
A 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.social2025-11-22 19:20:51
While 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.social2025-12-21 14:40:42
Sources: 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.social2025-11-27 16:41:32
EU 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…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-12-21 16:45:10
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Gutachter: EU-Kommission will eine "uferlose Sonderrechtszone" für KI
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-09 01:56:08
Investment 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
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-12-22 06:00:34
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Gutachter: EU-Kommission will eine "uferlose Sonderrechtszone" für KI
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-22 20:55:46
Analysis: the top US tech companies spent $109M on DC lobbying in 2025, topping $100M for the first time; Meta spent $26.29M, Amazon $17.78M, and Google $13.1M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-10 00:51:04
Poland's President Karol Nawrocki vetoes legislation meant to enforce the EU's DSA in Poland, arguing it would grant excessive powers to government officials (Wojciech Kość/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/polish-pre
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-20 17:25:48
The World Economic Forum in Davos is now dominated by tech giants, whose interests shunt aside topics like climate change, as Trump and AI take center stage (Peter S. Goodman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/business/davos-trump.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-16 20:05:54
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson says the agency is examining Big Tech's acqui-hires to make sure "they are not an attempt to get around" its merger review process (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-27 10:51:19
The EU gives Google a six-month deadline to lift technical barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android and give key data to other search engine providers (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-11 06:26:02
US investors are boosting Chinese AI-related tech stocks and adding cash to ETFs tracking China's tech sector, as US lawmakers push for tighter capital curbs (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/u-s-i…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-24 12:15:38
The EU unconditionally approves Omnicom's $13.25B all-stock deal to buy Interpublic, creating the world's largest ad agency to better compete with Big Tech (Bart Meijer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/eu-approves-omnicoms…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-22 10:30:54
A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-india-alternative-ai-llms/
