@Techmeme@techhub.socialByteDance launches Seedream 4.0, an AI image model it claims can beat Google's viral "nano banana" model in prompt adherence, alignment, and aesthetics (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAttorney General Bailey Fights To Expose Big Tech Censorship Of President Trump As AI Chatbots Produce Fake News (AG Bailey/Attorney General Office of Missouri)
https://ago.mo.gov/attorney-general-bailey-fights-to-expose-big-tech-censorship-of-president-trump-as-ai-chatbots-produce-fake-news/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p153#a250709p153
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialUK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle addressed his critics head-on at Google Cloud London today.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/peter-kyle-addresses-big-tech-criticisms
@aral@mastodon.ar.al🎶 I hate Big Tech and I cannot lie… 🎶
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@nelson@tech.lgbtThis is the Rock House on the Obey River at Camp Country Lad in Tennessee. I learned some courage there as a boy, getting up the nerve to jump off the Big Rock on the left.
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialReading an article about big tech being “customer zero” for AI, I can’t help but think of this Simpsons episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CXhRjkgLUQ
@cdarwin@c.imUnder the Trump administration,
US allies who once trusted in a rules-based US order
now face a landscape where access to critical systems
(think the dollar clearing system,
F-35 maintenance,
and Starlink internet as examples)
could be weaponized against them with little warning.
As Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman report for Wired,
this abrupt about face from the US
is pushing allies to investigate technological independence
d…
@timbray@cosocial.caPartially paywalled but still lots of juicy data. “State of the software engineering job market in 2025”: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech-market-in-2025
From which:
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaThis is fascinating. For once the extreme right and the left have a bit of a Venn diagram going: https://www.theverge.com/politics/773154/maga-tech-right-ai-natcon
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«As a result, there’s been some speculation that the [Waymo] cars were burned to destroy evidence. There’s likely more to it than that—and that the cars weren’t torched to destroy evidence as much to punish collaborators.»
Speaking of the Zeitgeist about working with big tech. 😁
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-weaponization-of-waymo
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTwo tech groups are backing Anthropic's appeal of a court ruling allowing a copyright class action, saying potential big settlements could chill AI investment (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeituan says daily orders on its instant delivery service surpassed 120M on July 5, setting an all-time high, with food orders accounting for 100M of them (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/artic…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThat some people find “text box that spits out a broken version of what they want and then you yell at it until it’s sufficing” more convenient than using existing tools says a lot more about existing tools than about the text box.
E.g. programming has long been extremely overwrought and complex for no reason other than enterprise wankery and gatekeeping, see the various frameworks from Big Tech.
The same companies now rent you expensive tools that “make programming easy”, while their overly complex frameworks and environments are free of course.
Instead of fixing the problem we’re now having two problems.
(The same is true in other industries.)
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialDenemarken geeft steeds meer tegengas aan Amerikaanse Big Tech. Onlangs hebben zowel het ministerie van Digitalisering als de gemeenten Aarhus en Kopenhagen besloten te stoppen met Microsoft.
https://eerlijkdigitaalonderwijs.nl/deense-scholen-zitten-goed/
@StephenRees@mas.toFrom Canada's National Observer
Whistleblower Exposes How AI Fuels Big Oil Growth
"We realized we were basically working for an oil company," said Holly Alpine, a former Microsoft employee who quit her dream job on the company's sustainability team when she realized the company, like most tech companies, is helping fossil fuel companies extract more oil and gas."
#fossilfuels
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI would be happy if the AI industry actually had to pay authors for their work in accumulating ideas and knowledge and expressing them via their copyrighted works (registered copyright or not.)
The AI industry is whining "we are so big, we need to violate the law, we need to steal the work of others without even the pretense of compensating them, oh woe are we, oh woe are we".
There is a gap in our laws of copyright. Copyright covers expression, patents cover ideas. B…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialNot to mention that many folks who are regular contributors to #inaturalist are deeply invested into the environment and aren't fans of destroying it using 'GenAI - or that partnering with big-tech that destroys society in addition to nature might be 'a bit' tone-deaf in 2025…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Trump administration's Big Tech courtship and its efforts to accelerate AI adoption across the US are alarming populists in the president's base (Joe Miller/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d6aac7f1-b955-4c76-a144-1fe8d909f70b
@newsie@darktundra.xyzVoiceover Artists Weigh the 'Faustian Bargain' of Lending Their Talents to AI https://www.404media.co/voiceover-artists-ai-voice-acting-jobs-microsoft-openai-chatgpt/
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineBest way to destroy US tech leadership is to put import taxes (tariffs) on everything they sell overnight.
https://apnews.com/article/apple-trump-computer-tariff-c01b5ce0265b0d294dd10b8966be4436#
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@kurtsh@mastodon.social<munches on popcorn>
☑️ At NatCon, the populist right calls for holy war against Big Tech | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/politics/773154/maga-tech-right-ai-natcon
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgOne thing that the current exorbitant investments in "AI" show is that the investor class and big tech corporations do not pay enough taxes: If you have billions to set on fire for spicy autocomplete we should take some or all of those to do something useful with.
@nohillside@smnn.chWhy Big Tech Turned Against Democrats — and Democracy https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-big-tech-turned-against-democrats
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUniversal Pictures has started adding a legal warning at the end credits of its films stating that their titles "may not be used to train AI" (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@frankstohl@mastodon.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialTwo tech groups are backing Anthropic's appeal of a court ruling allowing a copyright class action, saying potential big settlements could chill AI investment (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.socialIf you’re a person who can get pregnant, pls pls PLS do not use a period tracking app. PLEASE. #ReproductiveRights #ReproductiveHealth #UnderHisEye
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesMeta’s banning of two anti-Zionist comedians from Instagram is the latest example of Big Tech’s deep anti-Palestinian bias
#meta #facebook #instagram
@rachel@norfolk.social
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caSpread the word Canada and #Fediverse citizens everywhere! One of Trump's power grabs is through social media and big tech. The best way to take that power away is to take away power from the likes of Meta, Google and Apple who have far too much control and far too little social responsibility.
The Fediverse is the antidote to some of this. Talk to your MLA, MP, Representative, local politicians, and media. Get them talking about the alternative to platforms run by multinational corporations and foreign entities
#Mastodon #BCPoli #BC
https://socialbc.ca/@chris/114835376077242544
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzThis is a very good interview - https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2019000546/is-big-tech-more-powerful-than-government - Prof Alexandra Andhov is spot on: a) bigtech is more powerful than our gov…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialThe FTC Warns Big Tech Companies Not to Apply the Digital Services Act
FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson wrote a scathing letter to companies including Google, Meta, and Apple, telling them not to apply the DSA if it jeopardizes the freedom of Americans.
https://www.
@servelan@newsie.socialAt NatCon, the populist right calls for holy war against Big Tech | The Verge
https://archive.ph/nAbiv
@scott@carfree.cityD4 is a mess because of incoherent alliances.
Engardio won by courting both urbanists (who skew progressive) and conservatives (who are car-brained). Now conservatives feel betrayed because he backed car-free space, while progressive urbanists who like car-free spaces still aren't wild about *him*.
Thus, he's likely toast in the recall. 1/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialXpheno: Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, and their affiliates grew their combined India headcount by 16% over the past year, adding 28K jobs (Himanshi Lohchab/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.in…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialBig Tech quietly sponsors Trump’s military parade party
#resist
@markhburton@mstdn.socialTrump vows tariffs against countries which tax or regulate Big Tech | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/trump-vows-tariffs-against-countries-which-tax-or-regulate-big-tech
@villavelius@mastodon.online"An AI is a fundamentally different thing than the intelligence of a person. To think otherwise is like mistaking an aeroplane for a bird."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itSolid advice for everyone, especially in the age of Big Tech. https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/15218642
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.social
@aral@mastodon.ar.alFuck Trump, fuck Silicon Valley, and fuck Big Tech.
Look at the state of these slimy sycophants.
🤮
#Trump
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioEven if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:
1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.
2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.
3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.
4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.
5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.
It’s a grift, through and through.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn Website Technicals (2017-12) - Tech updates: allegedly too little markup, bad traffic, big hero, base download ms, service worker no rel, jump-to. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-7.html
@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.placeBrazil has an interesting history of homegrown technology (see Lua!) and I guess the new big step is developing their own digital payment system: Pix.
This article is largely about US efforts against it, but also discusses the rise of Pix.
https://restofworld.org/2025/pix-brazi
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialDigital sovereignty can’t be bargained away. The European Commission has tools, public support and a mandate to act on Big Tech. Trading that away for short-term calm would be a costly mistake.
https://www.politico.eu/article/digital-sovereignty-us-br…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA deep dive into the state of the tech job market in 2025, including an increase in demand for AI engineers and a rising average tenure at Big Tech companies (Gergely Orosz/The Pragmatic Engineer)
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech-market…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineKI-gestützte #Chatbots können bei vulnerablen Nutzern zu gefährlichen Realitätsverlusten führen.
Fälle zeigen, wie betroffene Personen durch bestätigende Antworten in #Wahnvorstellungen abdriften – etwa, bahnbrechende Theorien entdeckt zu haben. Das Zusammenspiel aus
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioDid they really not see the big FU, or did they just say FU and press on? 🤔
(an actual graphic on an actual website for a tech leadership training "university")
#graphicsDesign #business #unfortunate
@isf@muenchen.social
@jom@social.kontrollapparat.de🚨 Historic capitulation by von der Leyen to Trump! EU must:
• Buy $750bn US gas/oil
• Invest $600bn in USA
• Finance Ukraine war alone
• 15% tariffs on EU goods vs 0% on US goods
• 50% tariffs destroy German steel/aluminum
Total: $1.35 trillion EU−USA 🤯
After Big Tech dominance (Meta, Google, Microsoft), EU loses industry too. Big Tech stays untaxed!
Not a "deal" — surrender! 😭
@cdarwin@c.imTrump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech’s help
The system
-- spearheaded by an administration that has already freely shared highly personal data about Americans in ways that have tested legal bounds
-- could put patients’ desires for more convenience at their doctor’s office on a collision course with their expectations that their medical information be kept private.
“There are enormous ethical and legal concerns,”
…
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.socialDas ist der Eigentümer der Software Palantir, mit der uns die Regierung überwachen will:
Peter Thiel sei Drahtzieher eines politischen Netzwerks, das #DarkTech nicht nur maßgeblich finanziert, sondern strategisch vorantreibt. Die Plattformlogik ist kein Nebenprodukt, sondern das Machtinstrument einer neuen Rechten, die Technologie als Waffe gegen die liberale Demokratie nutzt.
sch…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Google told publishers it is hiring new staff to market its ad tech to big advertisers and ad agencies, signaling a renewed focus on publisher ad tech (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAt the White House dinner on Thursday night, Big Tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump by taking turns praising his leadership (Brian Barrett/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tech-ceos-donald-trump-white-house/
@axbom@axbom.me«This can be immensely empowering, and can improve public trust: it’s hard (and unwise) to give yourself over to a technology that won’t tell you how it works, particularly when its predefined settings allow only for meagre approaches to “user privacy”. As I ask my students, if you could develop an AI at your own home, and programme it to reflect your values and prioritise your safety, wouldn’t you trust it more? Well, the idea isn’t so outlandish – it only feels impossible because big tech fir…
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.pageDigital Sovereigns Big Tech and Nation-State Influence
Michael Bollerman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21066 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21066
@metacurity@infosec.exchangehttps://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/microsoft-china-cyberattacks-patch-aa25b2a8
“They are too big to keep failing like this,” said Jeff Greene, a former top U.S. cybersecurity official who helped write last year’s withering report on Microsoft…
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump Launching a New Private Health Tracking System With Big Tech's Help - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/07/31/2232230/trump-launching-a-new-private-health-tracking-system-with-big-techs-help
@crell@phpc.socialWell this should be fun to watch... If any industry has the power to beat big tech over the head, it's porn.
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/adult-film-company-sues-meta-f-aoWnXHCdTeaQa0oFskUvLg
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWhy Big Tech Turned Against Democrats -- and Democracy (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-big-tech-turned-against-democrats
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p31#a250624p31
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.socialWCPGW?
"That's a big no from me, dog."
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/amazon-bee-ai-wearable-cea07934?mod=tech_trendingnow_article_pos1
@heiseonline@social.heise.deVivaldi will keine KI-Agenten im Browser
Wer KI-Agenten im Browser nutzt, lasse Big Tech entscheiden, was man sieht, sagt Vivaldi. Man sei nur noch ein passiver Zuschauer.
https://www.heise.de/news/V…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok launches its e-commerce platform, TikTok Shop, in Japan, marking its 17th market, following launches in the US, the UK, Malaysia, Thailand, and others (Danielle Popov/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article
@nelson@tech.lgbtFull protest drag. Amazing crowd in Grass Valley, twice as big as April.
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialMicrosoft extends dominance of carbon removal market: Big tech group’s dealmaking spans investments in projects that burn or bury waste
https://www.ft.com/content/9ed59c61-7d10-44f7-91ce-2c34b12f411b
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@johnleonard@mastodon.socialWelcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the offence taken in China at the US commerce secretary’s statements, Modi’s plans to make India a chip superpower and Accenture’s big Aussie cyber buy.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/loos…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialMarkus Beckedahl kritisiert scharf: Die EU-Kommission knickt vor Trumps Drohkulisse ein und verschiebt die Durchsetzung des Digital Markets Act. Demokratie und Wettbewerb werden geopfert, um mögliche Autozölle zu vermeiden. Ein Armutszeugnis für Europas digitale Souveränität
Big Tech-Regulierung: EU-Kommission beugt sich Druck von #Trump
@Techmeme@techhub.socialReport: Douyin is merging its online shopping and instant delivery platforms, as ByteDance takes on Alibaba, JD.com, and Meituan in China's quick delivery race (Hannah Wang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/art…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioYou know, this is like if keyboard manufacturers asking if keyboards feel pain from being typed on and "serious media" picks it up as a story
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/26/can-ais-suffer-big-tech-and-users-grapple-with-one-of-most-unsettling-questions-of-our-times
@memeorandum@universeodon.comBig Tech stumbles into a big brawl over C-SPAN's streaming future (Paul Kane/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/12/big-tech-stumbles-into-big-brawl-over-c-spans-streaming-future/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p9#a250612p9
@cdarwin@c.im @Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Google told publishers it is hiring new staff to market its ad tech to big advertisers and ad agencies, signaling a renewed focus on publisher ad tech (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlibaba previews the Quark AI glasses, which are its first pair of AI-powered glasses and named after its AI assistant, with plans to launch them later in 2025 (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/ar…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social#KI ist wie ein Fitnessabo: teuer, voller Versprechen – und am Ende macht sie nicht mal die einfachen Hausaufgaben. Big Tech klatscht trotzdem Beifall, IBM winkt skeptisch von der Seitenlinie. AI: Artificial Ignorance? | Tech-Industrie: Warum KI oft dumm wirkt – und das vorerst nicht besser wird #Handelsblatt
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«Komoot’s core tech of Leaflet map, Graphhopper routing engine, and #OpenStreetMap data are all free, open-source projects. This is in addition to all the open-source web servers, databases, and operating systems that tech companies build upon. They leech off the open-source commons»
I'm convinced that this is one of the big reasons why we need some form of @… sooner rather than later, to ensure our commons can be saved from corp capture.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAt its core, #CCSignals is an attempt by Creative Commons, a Silicon Valley-based organisation, to legitimise the AI grifts of its donors – Google, Microsoft, and Meta (Zuckerberg).
Creative Commons was always a thinly-veiled attempt at enabling Big Tech data farmers to get more data (that’s why the whole “open data” realm is so well funded/popular – open as in “open for business” not fre…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US v. Google ruling signals a cautious antitrust approach by courts and a reluctance to intervene too deeply, ahead of other Big Tech antitrust rulings (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/technology/google-ruling-antitrust.html…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deVivaldi will keine KI-Agenten im Browser
Wer KI-Agenten im Browser nutzt, lasse Big Tech entscheiden, was man sieht, sagt Vivaldi. Man sei nur noch ein passiver Zuschauer.
https://www.heise.de/news/V…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSky, ITV, and Channel 4 plan to provide streaming ad space in one marketplace, letting advertisers run campaigns simultaneously, to combat Google and Meta (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIn a letter to staff, CEO Eddie Wu says Alibaba is merging its food delivery platform Ele.me and online travel agency Fliggy into its core e-commerce business (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-t…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSilicon Valley's bet on Trump starts to pay off (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/23/trump-ai-action-plan-big-tech/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p32#a250723p32
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow an open-source approach helped DeepSeek and other Chinese AI companies; Hugging Face: Alibaba's Qwen is now the world's largest open-source AI ecosystem (South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSilicon Valley is pushing senators to follow the House in reviving a favorable tax benefit that disappeared because of a US tax law Section 174 change in 2017 (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/20/silicon-valley-big-tech-tax-benefit
@Techmeme@techhub.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialAI researcher salaries are steadily rising, with total pay packages of $500K to $2M at Big Tech for mid to senior level staffers, up from $400K to $900K in 2022 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d48e7cfe-7b04-4cdd-8769-c88c83522118
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Google, Meta, and other tech firms have met with Brazilian officials as new regulations on tech are being shaped, with Trump's tariffs as a backdrop (Ana Ionova/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/world/americas/brazil-big-tech…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Egune AI, a startup building LLMs for the Mongolian language, as it navigates geopolitics, a lack of resources, and the nascent local tech scene (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/mongolia-egune-ai-llm/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInvestigation: healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island share sensitive data with Google, LinkedIn, and Snapchat via web trackers (The Markup)
https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/06/17/w…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBig Tech's reverse acquihires for AI talent are hollowing out startups and eroding the culture that has made Silicon Valley an unparalleled source of innovation (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-researchers
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Ashish Vaswani, lead author of Attention Is All You Need and Essential AI co-founder, who says the transformer-based AI boom is stifling innovation (Julia Love/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSky, ITV, and Channel 4 plan to provide streaming ad space in one marketplace, letting advertisers run campaigns simultaneously, to combat Google and Meta (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBig Tech acquihiring AI startups, like Meta's Scale AI deal, gives VCs only modest returns compared to traditional exits and may entrench Big Tech's dominance (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at how Big Tech is faring in the Trump administration in terms of their executives' ties with Trump, contracts, antitrust cases, tariffs, and more (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-tech-executives…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS tech startups are reviving US hiring plans as President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill lets companies accelerate R&D tax deductions, starting in 2025 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/tech-startups-hiri…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Big Tech's AI talent wars with massive compensation packages; sources: Meta told potential hires they would be allotted 30K GPUs for their AI research (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/technol
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAfter criticism, Senator Marsha Blackburn backs off her own AI provision compromise, saying "we can't block states from making laws that protect their citizens" (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-moratorium-trump-megabill-blackburn…
@Techmeme@techhub.social
