@kubikpixel@chaos.socialDie gefährlichsten Firmen der Welt - Big Tech
Überwachung, Datenhandel, Manipulation - welche Macht haben globale Digitalkonzerne? Wie verändern Daten und Algorithmen Wirtschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft?
📺 https://www.zdf.de/dokus/zdfinfo-die-gefaehrl…
@emilis@social.linux.pizzaLet's stop calling them "big tech" and start calling them "tech oligarchs".
"Big tech" is too ambiguous. E.g. Linux could be called "big tech" too.
Also the problematic aspect is immediately revealed: the individuals at the top, their corruption and misuse of the power.
@servelan@newsie.socialBig tech is failing domestic abuse victim-survivors
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/19/big-tech-domestic-abuse-victim-survivors/
@paul@social.van.buu.re
@heiseonline@social.heise.deVom AI-Hype zur AI-Angst: Warum Tech-Aktien 2026 so stark verlieren
Backlash: Big-Tech-Aktien notieren seit Jahresbeginn im Minus. Die Wall Street ist über das Disruptionspotenzial besorgt.
https://www.…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe 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
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialZo 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."
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"We also found that the evidence presented for examples of climate benefit, regardless of AI type, tend to be weak whether from companies or organisations like the IEA. The potential benefits are overstated, in surprising and significant ways."
(Original title: NEW REPORT – The AI climate hoax)
https://
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgThis whole thread is such a joy to read, about migrating away from big tech and taking back control of a digital life. #TechSovereignty #TechEmpowerment
#DanmarkSkifter
@cdarwin@c.imLibrary workers can better align technology use and instruction in library settings with library values,
through championing the refusal of technologies that conflict with values like privacy and intellectual freedom.
Drawing on experiences with individual patron instruction, class design, and passive programming, the author shares practical steps for helping patrons to understand and fight back against exploitation by digital technologies.
Rejecting the myth that any te…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Studie—Big Techs KI-Klimaversprechen entpuppen sich als leeres Greenwashing:
Nur 26 Prozent der KI-Versprechen zum Klimaschutz verweisen auf Fachstudien; 36 Prozent kommen ganz ohne Belege aus, so die deutsche NGO Beyond Fossil Fuels»
Dies erinnert mich sicherlich nicht um sonst an die Crypto-Currency Marketing-Verspreche(r)n. Weshalb aber plapern so gut wie alle Medien deren Marketing blind hinterher?
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@vosje62@mastodon.nlDe Nederlandsche Bank waarschuwt voor big tech, maar draait zelf op Microsoft - Follow the Money -
https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/nederlandsche-bank-waarschuwt-voor-bigtech-microsoft
Archive link https://archive.ph/p3HuI
What the .... 🙈🙈
Maar goed ... Alles draait toch om de MS cloud, dus wat maakt t uit...
... Nou in zoverre dat DNB medewerkers niet alleen over NLse data en ideeën zullen beschikken, maar ongetwijfeld ook over data en documenten van collega centrale banken in andere landen die misschien wel beter beveiligd zijn.
(Via @… )
@esoriano@social.linux.pizzaAl final, te van a obligar a usar la IA para que triunfe la IA.
“Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth”
https://www.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeExclusive: Big Tech companies band together to fight global scams
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/16/tech-companies-scam-accord-google-meta-amazon
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgalec steele learns about friction welding https://youtu.be/AIJL4ejtvLo
i was vaguely aware that TWI exists but i didn’t know what high-tech welding research entailed
it’s a big step up from typical youtube metalwork, wow
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNetflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos outlines increasing competition for customers' attention from YouTube, Instagram, linear networks that also do streaming, and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@sjn@chaos.social
@felwert@fedihum.org
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialEU-Kommission verkauft den Digitalen Omnibus als Bürokratieabbau – laut NGO-Analyse liest sich das Gesetz aber wie eine Wunschliste von Big Tech. Datenschutz und KI-Regeln werden gelockert, digitale Rechte abgebaut. Stärkung der EU oder Aufschwung für US-Giganten? Autor: Tomas Rudl.
🔗 https://
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioNo no, instead of regulating social media and requiring them to remove lies, violence and bullshit we’d rather have adults give up their privacy and anonymity instead, so big tech gets even more data.
While children are pushed to much worse corners of the Internet.
People who demand ID laws are child abusers.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS 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…
@usul@piaille.fr« J’ai décidé de faire mes adieux Š Gmail » : ces initiatives pour se passer des Big Tech américaines
https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2026/03/14/j-ai-decide-de-faire-mes…
@nelson@tech.lgbtRE: https://tech.lgbt/@somebitslinks/116058348297956373
I was suspicious of the etymology of molly-guard because it only dates to 1982, and the devices are much older. But Ed Krol from UIUC tells the story about his daughter Molly on page 14 of this PDF.
The only thing about it was that on one side was a big red switch—kid-sized, about 2 inches wide. ... I took my daughter Molly in to work with me. I said, ‘You play with your trucks on the floor while I work,’ and she saw this amazing big red thing and gave it a yank and turned it off.
/cc @…
@samueljohn@mastodon.worldRE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/115918464978934903
This is why we should continue to fight for our right on privacy, encryption, and don't give away all our data to big tech. Germany should not buy Palantir!
@fgraver@hcommons.socialThe Guardian view on changes to copyright laws: authors should be protected over big tech
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/13/the-guardian-view-on…
@haayman@todon.nlDit is heel goed nieuws, want het zet de vlucht van Big Tech in een hogere versnelling. Ik verwacht dat er veel meer gedaan gaat worden om alternatieven te ontwikkelen
https://waag.social/@marleenstikker/116244040976773012
@Techmeme@techhub.socialArizona sues Kalshi for allegedly operating an illegal gambling business and unlawfully facilitating betting on elections; Kalshi faces a similar suit in Nevada (Anna Washenko/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/arizona-
@hynek@mastodon.socialIt’s rare that I get excited about a big tech acquisition but Motion VFX are very well regarded in the Final Cut Pro scene (I own a few plugins myself) for high quality work but they’ve been clearly struggling financially lately, as shown by their switch to subscriptions-only. Hope they’ll be able to continue their work and Apple’s offer just got way more interesting.
@heiseonline@social.heise.deDigital 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.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social"Van het ministerie mag big tech de gesprekken over digitale autonomie zelf leiden"
https://www.
@der_raddler@dresden.networkGruselig! 😬
Hörsaal - Deutschlandfunk Nova: Digital-Oligarchie - Der Rechtsruck der Big-Tech-Bosse
Webseite der Episode: https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/digital-oligarchie-der-rechtsruck-der-big-tech-bosse
Medi…
@crell@phpc.socialThis is the most depressing thing I've read in a long time.
https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
Of particular note:
"The people building this technology are simultaneously more excited and more frightened than anyone else on the planet. They believe it…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgRE: https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/big-tech-greenwashing-report/
Ketan Joshi, who has been on the beat for a long time, actually looked into the story of if "AI" can "solve climate change". Conceptually as well as evidence …
@gwire@mastodon.socialIt's a shame that the press release for quantum computer investment has to be wrapped in "AI". Where the "race" has been reframed as the consumption, rather than production, of technologies.
In many ways quantum tech matches the UK's traditional strengths - big expensive important research with (let's face it) extremely vague plans for commercialisation.
@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…
@veit@mastodon.socialTrump announces 10% punitive tariffs from 1 February 2026 against Germany, among others – as leverage in the Greenland dispute. From 1 June, the tariff will rise to 25%. This serves as a reminder that dependence makes us vulnerable to blackmail. It is time to detach ourselves from the United States as quickly as possible – especially digitally: away from big tech, US platforms and US offices.
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgDon't know who this guy is, but I would love someone else's take on what he is saying here. I can't decide if this is utterly apocalyptic, or a guy who is just up to his eyeballs in the Kool-Aid.
Context: was sent to me by a financial advisor friend
https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-ha
@cheryanne@aus.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Adobe, and Match sign a voluntary pledge to share threat intelligence on scammers abusing their services (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/16/tech-companies-scam-accord-google-meta-amazon…
@timbray@cosocial.caOne of the more intriguing strands of Big Tech litigation: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/14/meta-and-google-trial-are-infinite-scroll-and-autoplay-creating-addicts
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialBig Tech ist Meister der Steuervermeidung. Die Politik reagiert mit einem „Plattform-Soli“. Doch laut Michael Kolain greift die Idee zu kurz: Sonderabgaben haben enge verfassungsrechtliche Grenzen – und selbst wenn sie kommen, bleibt die eigentliche Frage ungelöst: Wie besteuert man digitale Gewinne wirklich dort, wo sie entstehen?
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzI think this should be off-putting for any self-respecting NZer. The parties should also, perhaps, lose popular support due to their willingness to accept the money. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/589237
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@axbom@axbom.me @paul@social.van.buu.reFTM heeft een nuttig artikel (nuttig als in: lastig, anti-autoritair) over BZK en NLdigital.
"BZK wees branchevereniging NLdigital aan als ‘poortwachter’ voor het organiseren van de gesprekken van het aanjaagteam Cloud. En die keuze is opmerkelijk. Anders dan de naam doet vermoeden, maakt de belangenbehartiger met ruim 500 leden zich namelijk ook hard voor Amerikaanse belangen van leden als Microsoft, Google, Amazon, IBM en Oracle.”
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyBy 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…
@cdarwin@c.imTech billionaires are leveraging tens of millions of dollars
to influence California politics
in a marked uptick from their previous participation in affairs at the state capitol.
Behemoths such as #Google and #Meta are getting involved in campaigns for November’s elections,
as are venture capitalist…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Weg von Google und Paypal — EU will digital unabhängiger werden:
Die gängigen digitalen Dienstleistungen kommen in der Regel von US-amerikanischen Big-Tech-Unternehmen wie Alphabet oder Meta. Unter Trump ist das ein Problem»
Ich wohne nicht in der EU und deswegen wird dies wahrscheinlich in meiner Umgebung nicht so schnell von den US-Konzerne lösen. BigTechs haben auch Standorte in der CH.
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@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://esq.social/@SuffolkLITLab/116054463472872585
For Big Tech, “deleted” means setting deleted = false to deleted = true.
@marcel@waldvogel.family“Big Tech’s AI hype is distracting users from the rapid and dangerous expansion of giant, energy and water-intensive data centres […].
There is simply no evidence that AI will help the climate more than it will harm it.
Rather than relying on credible and substantiated data, Big Tech companies are writing themselves a blank cheque to pollute on the empty promise of future salvation. We cannot bet the climate on these baseless claims.”
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialIs this the disturbed view of AI / BigTech optimists, or does he have a point?
"Something Big Is Happening"
#ai
@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://
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioWhat’s in it for people who work for the big tech companies who enable one morally bankrupt thing after another for decades on end just to make the billionaire owners richer?
Is that truly fulfilling work?
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at the US tech industry's effort to influence Californian politics: fighting the 5% billionaire tax, super PACs, and seeking a new tech-friendly governor (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/californ…
@cdarwin@c.im @Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Linux Foundation announces $12.5M in total grants from Google and others to help FOSS maintainers cope with the influx of AI-generated security findings (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/18/linux_foundation_ai_slop_defense/
@nelson@tech.lgbtI really like Genoa! A big city, industrial and with an enormous port. But also a lovely city center very dense with tiny pedestrian streets. And of course lots of monumental Italian architecture.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioPlease note I don’t mean this in a snarky “yet you work under capitalism lol” way.
I specifically mean big tech (like Microsoft, Google or Meta) and staying there for years without even looking for another job.
You can make choices for your life.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple, whose capital expenditure is just a fraction of its peers, is the only Big Tech company that saw capex decline YoY in Q4, decreasing 19% to $2.37B (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/apple-is-the-only-big-tech-company-…
@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.
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialDigital-Oligarchie - Der Rechtsruck der Big-Tech-Bosse
Big-Tech-Bosse vertreten verstärkt rechte Ideen und nehmen vermehrt politischen Einfluss. In ihren ideologischen Konzepten und in der aktuellen US-Politik macht der Politikwissenschaftler Christopher Coenen faschistische Tendenzen aus.
📻 https:…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeA spate of big developments emerged yesterday regarding Anthropic, its status as a "supply chain threat," and what that means for organizations that have deployed the company's tech as well as what it means for the company.
Don't miss today's Metacurity for a précis on these critical developments and other top infosec news you should know, including
--FBI warns of phishing campaigns impersonating city and county officials,
--TX governor warns health ag…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“The founder of OpenClaw, vibe coder Peter Steinberger, was also hired by a Big Tech firm.”
If there’s one thing that gives me comfort in this world, it’s knowing I will never be called “vibe coder”.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/meta-acquire…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgI wished more media was writing not just about how the "AI" buildout increases prices but actively bars people from building their own independent infrastructures.
"AI" is not just poisoning the infosphere but taking away your ability to build alternatives. In the end only Big Tech Cloud and the way it's often used against the users is left.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFTC 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
@cdarwin@c.imA healthy (in body and mind),
active, frugal, sociable, mostly offline citizen
who is highly educated and informed, in full control of their data, avoiding Big Tech’s platforms and algorithms,
with a positive self-esteem and self-image,
is probably persona non grata for the tech billionaires.
But a small, insignificant nuisance, like a fly
– they don’t care about ONE.
But imagine having thousands,
then hundreds of thousands,
then millio…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Meta has revived a previously shelved smartwatch project, now code-named Malibu 2, and plans to release it in 2026 with health features and Meta AI (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-revives-plan-smart-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNvidia says it is working with Peak XV and other VC firms in India to fund AI startups; over 4,000 Indian AI startups have joined its global startup program (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/nvidia-india-ai-vc-data-center-partners.html…
@cdarwin@c.imOver the past year, tech industry lobby groups have used their lavish budgets to aggressively push for the deregulation of the EU’s digital rulebook.
The intensity of this policy battle is also reflected in the fact that Big Tech companies have on average more than one lobby meeting per day with EU Commission officials.
This lobbying offensive appears to be paying off.
Recently, a string of policy-makers have called for a pause of the Artificial Intelligence Act,
a…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social📢 Trump fordert, dass Big Tech eigene Kraftwerke für KI-Rechenzentren baut – angeblich, um Verbraucher vor steigenden Stromkosten zu schützen. Doch die Mehrheit dieser Anlagen soll mit Erdgas laufen, obwohl sich Konzerne zu sauberer Energie verpflichtet haben. 🇺🇸 Autor: Business Insider Deutschland
#Energiepolitik
@nelson@tech.lgbtJust 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?
@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.
@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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon, Google, and Microsoft reported a collective $1.1T backlog of cloud computing revenue in their latest quarterly earnings, including Microsoft's $625B (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/big-techs-usd1-1-trillion-cloud-computing-backl…
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialHow independent of the US corporations is your website that you use or even operate?
«Replace US tech with European alternatives:
Your current stack sends EU data to US servers under US law. Find sovereign, GDPR-native replacements in seconds.»
🇪🇺 https://www.cloudinfraatlas.eu
@heiseonline@social.heise.deheise | 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.
@cdarwin@c.imAlphabet has lined up banks to sell a rare 100-year bond,
stepping up a borrowing spree by Big Tech companies racing to fund their vast investments in AI this year.
The so-called century bond will form part of a debut sterling issuance this week by Google’s parent company, said people familiar with the matter.
Alphabet was also selling $20 billion of dollar bonds on Monday
and lining up a Swiss franc bond sale, the people said.
The dollar portion of the deal was…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 can handle the full app development lifecycle on their own, a sign of what's coming for most knowledge work within five years (Matt Shumer)
https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic partners with CodePath to help redesign computer coding curricula at hundreds of US community and state colleges, integrating Claude AI tools (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-take…
@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.socialPoland'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.socialAs AI models commodify, Apple's plans to spend just $14B on 2026 capex, far below hyperscalers' combined $650B, or 90% of their cash flow, may be a genius move (Horace Dediu/Asymco)
https://asymco.com/2026/03/10/the-most-brilliant-move-in-corporate-histor…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Italian police searched the offices of the country's data protection agency, one of EU's most proactive regulators, as part of a corruption probe (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@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
@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.socialThe US Senate passed COPPA 2.0 again, which would create new protections for young users; the bill now heads to the House, where it has struggled to pass (Anna Washenko/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/coppa-20-passes-the-sen…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle unveils Home updates to fix a long list of annoyances and idiosyncrasies, and debuts Live Search to let Gemini analyze and describe live camera feeds (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/888008/big-google-home-updat…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: China is drafting rules for Nvidia H200 purchases, limiting how many chips local companies can buy and requiring them to justify the need (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/artificial-inte…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTrump says Microsoft will "ensure" Americans don't face higher bills due to data centers' power use and Big Tech must "pay their own way" for their data centers (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-micr
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI will sign White House's initiative to build their own electricity supply for AI data centers (Emma Colton/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/scoop-trump-brings-…
@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<…
@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-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet hits a $4T market cap in intraday trading, becoming the fourth Big Tech company to reach the milestone, after its stock rose 6% in the past month (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/02d44794-815f-40dc-9b49-0e10432147a9
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend $300B on AI investments, putting at risk a potential source of funding for tech companies (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/iran-war-imperils-300-billio…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS DOJ antitrust chief Gail Slater says she is leaving, in a departure viewed as a victory for tech giants over some of MAGA's more populist voices (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/12/justice-antitrust-chief-gail-slateer-resigns
@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-
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle unveils WAXAL, a new open speech dataset for 21 African languages to ease speech technology development; African institutions own the dataset (Damilare Dosunmu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/google-waxal-african-languages-ai-sovereignty/…
