@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-11-22 17:06:00
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-11-22 17:06:00
@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.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-21 15:21:09
A look at the fundamental questions facing OpenAI: its models have a very large user base but very narrow engagement, incumbents are matching its tech, and more (Benedict Evans)
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/2/19/how-will-openai-compete-nkg2x
@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
@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.
🐧
@emilis@social.linux.pizza2026-02-20 09:58:50
Let'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.
@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…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-12-22 19:55:01
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-02-18 11:00:05
"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://
@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.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-21 00:46:02
Netflix 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
@villavelius@mastodon.online2026-02-21 06:09:37
Big Tech is dancing to the beat of algorithms.
@servelan@newsie.social2026-02-19 01:22:54
Big 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.re2026-02-19 12:20:00
@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…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-02-16 18:41:08
@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…
@shanmukhateja@social.linux.pizza2025-12-21 19:52:09
The #libxml2 situation is a sad one. It sucks that big tech companies refuse to fund a library that is so critical to their products.
Let it be known that I support Nick, the now-former, original maintainer of the project.
#opensource
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-01-20 05:25:30
De 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.pizza2026-01-20 16:07:08
Al 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.
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-12-12 09:30:57
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-20 02:47:59
Senator Marsha Blackburn said
“I look forward to introducing the
"TRUMP AMERICA AI Act"
in the new year to create one federal rulebook for AI
to protect children, creators, conservatives, and communities"
Combats the consistent pattern of bias against conservative figures demonstrated by Big Tech and AI systems by requiring:
Audits of high-risk AI systems to undergo regular bias evaluations to prevent discrimination based on protected characte…
@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."
@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-…
@nelson@tech.lgbt2026-02-12 15:27:29
RE: 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 @…
@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.
@felwert@fedihum.org2026-02-18 08:07:42
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-02-19 15:05:08
«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?
🧐
@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
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-01-18 10:30:08
EU-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.io2026-02-18 14:35:36
No 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.
@marcel@waldvogel.family2025-12-19 14:14:24
Wenn ihr Mitarbeiter einstellt, mit denen ihr noch nie persönlich interagiert habt und wahrscheinlich auch nicht mal regelmässig per Videokonferenz, dann kann es gut sein, dass sie gar nicht sind, wen sie vorgeben zu sein.
Eigentlich keine überraschende Erkenntnis. Ausser für Big-Tech-Firmen.
https://www.<…
@sjn@chaos.social2026-01-19 21:06:01
@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
@crell@phpc.social2026-02-12 16:39:09
This 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…
@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…
@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
@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…
@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/
@neuhaus@mastodon.acm.org2025-12-19 07:59:15
Der #39C3 naht fast so schnell wie Weihnachten. 🎅
Ich bin gespannt auf die dortige c‘t Uplink #podcast Episode zum Thema #DigitaleSouveränität, bei der ich auch dabei sein w…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-17 08:41:00
Vom 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.…
@samvarma@fosstodon.org2026-02-12 23:19:21
Don'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
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-02-17 10:14:08
RE: 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 …
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-02-11 09:03:47
"Van het ministerie mag big tech de gesprekken over digitale autonomie zelf leiden"
https://www.
@samueljohn@mastodon.world2026-01-19 06:15:52
RE: 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!
@axbom@axbom.me2026-01-10 07:22:39
@hakona@im.alstadheim.no2025-12-07 12:29:15
@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
@veit@mastodon.social2026-01-17 17:47:43
Trump 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.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-19 12:21:00
The National Association of Broadcasters launches a campaign to support live sports on free broadcast channels as more big games move to streaming services (George Winslow/TV Tech)
https://www.tvtechnology.com/platform/broadcast/n…
@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…
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-01-16 20:51:39
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2025-12-19 18:55:03
ARD und ZDF vertrauen bei der Verbreitung digitaler Inhalte zunehmend auf die wenigen Big-Tech-Plattformen. Sie geben also Schritt für Schritt, Sendemast für Sendemast, die unabhängige Verbreitung auf - und begeben sich gleichzeitig in ein Ökosystem, dessen Regeln andere festlegen. "Wer die Infrastruktur beherrscht, beherrscht auch die Information und Meinung", schreibt Björn Staschen - epd medien #Medien
@gwire@mastodon.social2025-12-16 11:39:53
To be fair, if you costed out hardware 9 months ago, you probably couldn't account for changes to technology prices influenced by a) AI companies b) US policies. The price of RAM alone will force adjustments.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/ukgov_expan…
@paul@social.van.buu.re2026-02-11 09:53:42
FTM 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.”
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-01-16 21:06:49
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.social2025-12-09 13:38:19
I am so glad I am no longer working in the tech industry. It was kinda fun in the "princes of labor" era, but with all the layoffs and mow the AI race to the bottom I can’t imagine it being a good environment.
Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane
by @…
@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…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-02-12 10:36:50
RE: https://esq.social/@SuffolkLITLab/116054463472872585
For Big Tech, “deleted” means setting deleted = false to deleted = true.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-09 16:01:07
A 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.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…
@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
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-02-13 16:28:32
Is this the disturbed view of AI / BigTech optimists, or does he have a point?
"Something Big Is Happening"
#ai
@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.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-15 19:33:15
Tech 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…
@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?
@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
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-06 07:20:51
Over 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-07 16:20:56
Apple, 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-…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-02-15 12:09:29
I 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.
@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.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-04 17:56:00
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-16 09:50:40
A 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…
@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
@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.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-06 16:25:53
Amazon, 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…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-11 03:54:43
Alphabet 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.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.social2026-02-18 21:10:59
Sources: 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-…
@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…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-18 05:11:00
Nvidia 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…
@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.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-11 07:41:42
GPT-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.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…
@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.
@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
@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…
@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…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-15 06:45:59
Anthropic 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-13 00:50:57
Trump 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.social2026-01-16 12:40:50
Source: 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.social2026-01-15 05:16:12
Sources: 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.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<…
@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-…
@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…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-08 07:30:49
Big 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.social2026-01-12 15:49:18
Alphabet 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.social2026-02-12 17:51:00
US 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
