@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialHe's just whining because they won't change the name to Trumpflix. 😏
And it will be too much competition for state-run media outlet Paramount / Skydance
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/08/trump-netflix-warner-b…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialThe Competition and Consumer Authority in Denmark 🇩🇰 has conducted inspections in the EV charging industry, suspecting that competition rules have been violated.
https://kfst.dk/pressemeddelelser/kfst/2026/20260206-kontrolbesoeg-i-branch…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2 AFC teams are running away from the competition https://insidethestar.com/2-afc-teams-are-running-away-from-the-competition
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialThe year starts with a new competition case re. public EV charging prices in Italy. The competition authority has decided to conduct a further investigation into A2A Mobility, as prices charged to others were higher than in their own app.
https://www.agcm.it/pubblicazioni/bolletti<…
![Figura n. 2: confronto prezzi all’ingrosso e al dettaglio del Gruppo A2A - Gennaio 2025 (ancora
in vigore a Novembre 2025)
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@cdarwin@c.imIn a wide-ranging live conversation, MIT President Sally Kornbluth joined Jim Braude and Margery Eagan live in studio for GBH’s Boston Public Radio on Thursday, February 5.
They talked about MIT, the pressures facing America’s research enterprise, the importance of science, that Congressional hearing on antisemitism in 2023, and more
With new financial pressures facing universities,
increased competition for talented students and scholars from outside the U.S.,
as we…
@hw@fediscience.orgKevin Xu argues that it's misleading to characterise the US–China AI competition as a race, since there's mutual co-operation and co-optation going on all the time: #AIResearch #LLM #AIResearch
@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.pageCompetition, stability, and functionality in excitatory-inhibitory neural circuits
Simone Betteti, William Retnaraj, Alexander Davydov, Jorge Cort\'es, Francesco Bullo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05252
@Techmeme@techhub.socialItaly's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing a Meta policy excluding rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, broadening the scope of a probe started in July (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/italys-competi…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialThis is a good introduction to the problem of reducing energy return on investment. How it works and what implications it has.
What Are the Broader Economic Implications of Low EROI? − Question https://energy.sustainability-director
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialWhen you sacrifice a cock to your god for winning a competition.
#BumDayMonday
#GreekRomanArt #Hermes
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Detroit News and Detroit Free Press ended their joint operating agreement, which began in 1989; The News plans to launch a Sunday print edition January 18 (Summer Ballentine/The Detroit News)
https://www.detro…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders could hold QB competition to replace Geno Smith in Week 18 https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/12/30/raiders-could-hold-qb-competition-to-replace-geno-smith-in-we…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzDallas Cowboys sign veteran quarterback to provide competition for Joe Milton https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-sign-veteran-quarterback-competition-joe-milton/a7d30…
@me@mastodon.peterjanes.caAilsa Craigs are having a big week: Canadian Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen is from Ailsa Craig, Ontario, and Olympic curling means the Scottish island is in focus too. https://geoscienceinfo.com/curling-stones-a-pilgrimage-of-granitic-proportions/
@cdarwin@c.im#Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday
🔸as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics,
🔸expiring U.S. tax breaks for buyers
🔸and stiff overseas competition
pushed sales down for a second year in a row.
🔥Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025 -- down 9% from a year earlier.
Chinese rival
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialA few weeks ago my daughter mentioned something about a school drawing competition. I thought nothing of it. Then, last week, we got a letter in the post. She had won! The competition was being organised by a firm called "Young Artists", and the letter told us that if we would give permission for her artwork to be included in the book, we would be able to buy a copy for the low, low price of £19.99....
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Microsoft Excel's evolution, as it remains the most widely used spreadsheet software with 500M paying users despite competition from Google and others (Bloomberg)
@filmfacts@social.tchncs.de#Commodore #C64 Ultimate
War es sinnvoll das Ding zu kaufen? Sicher nicht. Bereue ich den Kauf? Ganz sicher nicht!
https://www.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNew OC says Fins to add competition at QB spot https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47829369/slowik-praises-tagovailoa-divulge-dolphins-qb-plans
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition
From the Romantic Round of the Banff International String Quartet Competition, quartets by Mendelssohn, Debussy and Brahms. Jonathan Swain presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qgzj
@primonatura@mstdn.social
@newstik@social.heise.de"I'm every woman ... And don't bother to compare" is the ultimate anti-competition #song. How did Chaka Khan not get an #antitrust proceeding?!
@raiders@darktundra.xyzDavis Webb rumors reveal Raiders' competition for Broncos assistant coach https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/davis-webb-rumors-raiders-competition-broncos-assistant-coach/5…
@BraxtonDK@social.linux.pizza„Gimme Groove“ by The Sarge
Platform: C64
Released: 29 November 2025
Note: 1st in the Transmission64 2025 Graphics competition
#GFX_The_Sarge #YR_2025 #PF_C64
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.socialUne bonne nouvelle pour commencer l'année ;
les ventes de Tesla en baisse de 15,6 % par rapport Š la même période de trois mois en 2024
#elmoron #svasticars
@UP8@mastodon.social🍚 Race to secure 2025 rice crop heats up, lifting prices
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/17/japan/new-rice-crop-competition/
🆓
@publicvoit@graz.socialEs wird wirklich viel Mist mit #Wissenschaft begründet, was ziemlich sicher nach wissenschaftlichen Kriterien eher #Schwurbel zu sein scheint. 🫣
TMLive - #YogicFlying Competition MUM 2016
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAdobe ramped up its ads in 2025, spending $1.4B amid AI competition and Wall Street skepticism, representing a significantly higher share of sales than rivals (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…
@danyork@mastodon.social@… In my mind the competition is with the big global centralized platforms… and so any decentralized systems are welcome! Different communities will form on different platforms. And if this brings some of the enthusiasm from BlueSky and gets people using decentralized systems (assuming they do make it more decentralized), then in the big picture, …
@timbray@cosocial.caToday’s eye candy, remarkable underwater photos: #photography
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFC storms back to beat AFC in Pro Bowl flag game full of stars, scooters and trick plays https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7020349/2026/02/04/nfl-pro-bowl-2026-flag-plays-micah-parsons/
@jswright61@ruby.socialI plan to bow out of NYT #Wordle after tomorrow. I’ll miss the friendly competition with the #OldGal & #YoungPups. Their announcement that they’ll start reusing previous answers as of Monday Feb, 2 was enough t…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Carl Carlton:
🎵 Competition Ain't Nothing
#CarlCarlton
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ZCYt2u53cwTcVpPEyhAfx
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI don't envy "vibe coders". I mean, let's for a minute assume that their vision is not a pipe dream, but an accurate prediction of the future.
For a start, what's their plan for life? Driving a tool whose primary selling point is that anyone can use it. And I'm not even talking about all the inside competition. I'm talking of people realizing that they can cut the middleperson and do the coding themselves.
The way I see it, vibe coders are a bit like typists (with no offense to typists). Their profession is a product of a novelty. And just like typists largely disappeared when typewriters and then computers became commonplace, so are vibe coders bound to disappear when vibe coding becomes commonplace.
And are true programmers going to become obsolete? Well, let me ask you: did the proliferation of cars and corresponding self-service skills render car mechanics obsolete? On the contrary. The way I see it, the proliferation of slopcode will only make competent programmers ever the more necessary.
What vibe coders are saying is basically this: "This new automated self-service kit makes car maintenance so easy. Car mechanics will become obsolete now. Everyone's just going to hire *me* to run this kit instead."
#AI #LLM #VibeCoding
@cdarwin@c.im

Both Quikscript and Shavian were essentially the results of a design competition,
sponsored--posthumously--by playwright George Bernard Shaw,
who laid out the terms in his will.
Shaw wanted someone to create an ideal phonetic alphabet for English that trumped Pitman shorthand.
British designer Ronald Kingsley Read, a finalist in the 1960s competition, designed both Quikscript and Shavian, the latter being named in Shaw's honor
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders still won't commit to 3rd round rookie despite injuries at guard https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/11/30/raiders-competition-guard-caleb-rogers-atonio-mafi-…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caCurrently side-by-side on the CBC.ca news website listings are these two articles titled:
"More Oil Production in Venezuela could hurt Canada's oilpatch”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Oil #EndFossilFuels #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #Venezuela #Canada #USA #Alberta #ABPoli #Pipelines
@BraxtonDK@social.linux.pizza„Seamonster“ by Facet
Platform: Amiga
Released: 18 May 2024
Specification: 320x256px, 32 colors
Note: 2nd in the Decrunch 2024 Amiga Pixel GFX competition
#GFX_Facet #YR_2024 #PF_Amiga
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCursor-developer Anysphere acquires code review startup Graphite and says Graphite will continue operating as an independent product (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/19/cursor-ai-coding-startup-graphite-competition-heats-up/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialItaly's competition watchdog fines Apple €98.6M, saying the company's ATT rules are "disproportionate" and "harmful" to app developers and advertisers (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/22/italy-fines…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialFunny, is this a competition? #AWS with Dynamo DB, #Azure front door, today #Couldflare...
Will Google top them all and set their outage in the Christmas shopping period? 🤔
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026 Pro Bowl Games: What We Learned from NFC's 66-52 win https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-pro-bowl-games-what-we-learned-from-nfc-s-66-52-win
@raiders@darktundra.xyzBills face competition from Tom Brady’s Raiders to sign Josh Allen’s former teammate in 2026 https://bolavip.com/en/nfl/bills-face-competition-from-tom-bradys-raiders-to-sign-josh-allens-former-teammate-in-2026
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys suddenly have NFC East competition for top defensive coordinator target https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-suddenly-have-nfc-east-competition-for-top-defensive-coordinator-target
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyzDreamt I saw the flickering ghost of Roy Ross in a video of a show I attended. Some middle school friends of mine were a three-piece called TARP, sounding like a cross between Ascension (aka Stefan Jaworzyn/Tony Irving) and Dead C. They played a competition in a high school cafeteria and were really tight, but I didn’t see Roy then. Only later in the video.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialAn excellent lecture.
Bronwen Maddox, Director and Chief Executive of Chatham House,described a world of two superpowers whose competition for power ‘is a threat to the peace and prosperity of others’
https://www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/standard-e…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Nvidia's DGX Cloud is merging with the engineering unit, pivoting from selling cloud services to enterprises to supporting internal AI development (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-restructures-clou…
@anderelampe@chaos.socialAMBIO is working for 10 years, now (AMBIO is short for Advances Medical BIOimaging core facility of the @… ).
Today we have a symposium with lots of talks, but also expert tables, device demos and an microscopy image competition.Brace for some talk summaries and probably very pretty flourescence microscopy images.
@vosje62@mastodon.nlDenmark Begins its Exit from Microsoft — and This is Just the Beginning
https://itsfoss.com/news/denmark-road-traffic-authority-ditches-microsoft/
'The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.'
Microsoft: 'We welcome competition, and there need not be a contradiction between open source and what Microsoft delivers.'
Microsoft could have avoided vendor lock ins for decades and datagrabbing. 😇🙃
(Via @… & @… )
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialThis is a subtweet...
People who are not anti-capitalist sometimes wonder: "Why is there a monopoly on X life-critical thing?" (E.g., epipens, insulin, web search).
This one is really simple actually: because monopolies are more profitable than competition, and the foundation of capitalism is that capital = power.
Various societies have recognized the necropolitical outcomes of monopolies and have tried to erect barriers to monopoly; we all know that monopolies are bad, death-and-suffering-causing things. But since these societies mostly remain capitalist, they allow these barriers to be eroded by the power of capital (to do otherwise would be to repudiate capitalism because it puts a limit on the power of money). The barriers are ineffective, and the capital = power equation holds, and monopolies result and get to do their killing & maiming thing (remember: even things like social media monopolies that you wouldn't expect to pay for political assassinations like a mining company still profit from inciting genocides). *Sometimes* there are oligopolies instead of monopolies, but instances of really competitive markets are pretty rare for things that are widely sought-after.
The "government will manage the markets to prevent bad outcomes like monopolies" strategy has failed repeatedly, spectacularly, and almost universally. To actually prevent monopolies you need a population that no longer believes that money should equal power, it's that simple. Sadly, it's actually not that simple, since all of the alternatives which equate something else to power, like "the king" or "party loyalty as judged by the supreme leader" have the same problems or worse. The attitude you need to cultivate is "nobody should have power," which is hard because *all* of the power-systems we have constantly propagandize against this attitude in myriad ways. Still, in the future once we've broken free of this age where hierarchy is accepted, people will look back and wonder whether the historical records are even credible given how much needless death and suffering were endured with little resistance.
#anarchy #capitalism
@NFL@darktundra.xyzAs Deshaun Watson ramps up slowly, Browns prepare for another QB logjam in 2026
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/as-deshaun-watson-ramps-up-slowly-br…
@UP8@mastodon.social🏭 Yeast cell factory converts methanol into L-lactate for biodegradable plastics
#biotech
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialQ&A with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on Netflix's stock roller coaster, viewer engagement, ads, the WBD acquisition, regulation, competition, Hollywood, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/an-intervi…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInternal memo: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declares a "code red" to shift more resources into improving ChatGPT amid rising competition, delaying other plans like ads (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op
@primonatura@mstdn.social"UK Government unveils £43m funding competition for low-carbon aviation innovation"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Technology
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPrediction market Kalshi raised $1B led by Paradigm at an $11B valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in October 2025, making its co-founders billionaires (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/business/dealb…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzVikings HC Kevin O'Connell looks to add depth, competition to QB room during 2026 offseason https://www.nfl.com/news/vikings-hc-kevin-o-connell-looks-to-add-depth-competition-to-qb-room-during-2026-offseason
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSamsung says the Galaxy Z TriFold will go on sale in South Korea on December 12 for ~$2,440, in China this year, and in the US as early as Q1 2026 (Heekyong Yang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telec…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzRanking the 9 Greatest Defenses in Super Bowl History https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/greatest-defenses-in-super-bowl-history
@BraxtonDK@social.linux.pizza„Ready for the Byte Fight“ by Vasyl
Platform: Atari ST/E
Released: 22 November 2025
Specification: 320x200px, 9 colors
Note: 1st in the Silly Venture 2025 WE Atari ST/STE Graphics competition
#GFX_Vasyl #YR_2025
@Techmeme@techhub.socialItaly's competition watchdog fines Apple €98.6M, saying the company's ATT rules are "disproportionate" and "harmful" to app developers and advertisers (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/22/italy-fines…
@cdarwin@c.imMichigan Attorney General
Dana Nessel on Friday
filed an antitrust lawsuit against four major oil companies,
asserting they have colluded for decades to forestall competition from renewable energy,
including electric vehicles.
The suit filed in U.S. District Court in western Michigan
names BP, Chevron, Exxon, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute.
The suit said the companies acted
"as a cartel, agreeing to reduce the production and d…
@UP8@mastodon.social🍗 Is gen Z’s love of fried chicken pushing Britain to ‘peak pizza’?
... as a🦊I approve!
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/30/is-gen-zs-love-of-fried-chicken-pushing-britain-to-peak-pizza
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Satya Nadella is focused on the increasing AI competition from Amazon and Google; Microsoft Deputy CTO Dee Templeton says Nadella is in "founder mode" (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/255dbecc-5c57-4928-824f-b3f2d764f635…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders Face Competition for ‘Perfect’ HC Candidate: Adam Schefter https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/davis-webb-rumors-adam-schefter-bills/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulations (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@BraxtonDK@social.linux.pizza„Rainbows and Kittens“ by Optic
Platform: C64
Released: 24 January 2026
Note: 1st in the Gerp 2026 16 Color Pixel Graphics competition
#GFX_Optic #YR_2026 #PF_C64
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on Netflix's stock roller coaster, viewer engagement, ads, the WBD acquisition, regulation, competition, Hollywood, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/an-intervi…
@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
@raiders@darktundra.xyzNFL executives weigh in how Dante Moore, other QBs in CFP can boost their draft stock https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6927293/2025/12/31/nfl-draft-2026-fernando-mendoza-dante-moore-ty-simpson-college-football-pla…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDeepSeek says its new DeepSeekMath-V2 model got gold-medal level status on the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 and Chinese Mathematical Olympiad 2024 (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/deepseekmath-v2-is-deepseeks-late…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Award disqualified two books citing AI-made covers; their publisher says AI's rise has put the industry in "uncharted waters" (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/books/new-zealand-ocham…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzExclusive: Former Raider Marcel Reese Calls for Urgency, QB Competition, and Defensive Focus https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/marcel-reese-raiders-win-now/
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRanking the best defenses to stream each week the rest of the season https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/47087423/2025-fantasy-football-streaming-defense-d-st-strategy-matchups-december
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Chinese food delivery giant Meituan's subsidy war with Alibaba and JD.com, leading Meituan to a big Q3 loss and internal debate over global expansion (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ab22c799-6370-4f8c-9256-d5bfd28e0aa1
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse after regulatory pressure killed Amazon's $1.7B acquisition in 2024, and the rising Chinese competition (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/14/how-irobot-lost-its-way-home/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA US judge rules that Apple and OpenAI must answer to a lawsuit filed by X and xAI accusing them of conspiring to thwart competition in emerging markets in AI (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChina launches a probe into competition among online food delivery platforms, aiming to curb price wars that have contributed to deflationary economic pressures (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chin…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders Bring in Competition for Struggling All-Pro by Signing Super Bowl Champ https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/greg-joseph-signing-daniel-carlson/?adt_ei=[email]
@Techmeme@techhub.socialItaly's competition authority closes its July 2024 probe into Google's alleged unfair practices over users' personal data after Google adopted remedies (Gianluca Semeraro/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChip companies in South Korea, Taiwan, and China have been raising pay and bonuses as global competition intensifies for a limited pool of chip engineers (June Yoon/Financial Times)
https://on.ft.com/3K5zVj1
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulations (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with former Xbox boss Peter Moore on the Xbox 360 launch, his new book Game Changer, competition with Sony, the origins of the modern console war, and more (Robert Purchese/Eurogamer.net)
https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-was-af
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Baidu's Ernie Assistant passes 200M MAUs, as competition intensifies among Chinese tech giants in AI; Ernie is linked to apps like JD.com and Meituan (Jiahui Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.ws…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at South Korea's Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best homegrown AI models, in a bid to compete with the US and China (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWhile the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/11/21/boom-bubble-bust…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTim Sweeney says Fortnite will not return to iOS in Japan in 2025, as Apple is "charging a competition-crushing 21% junk fee on third-party in-app payments" (Tim Sweeney/@timsweeneyepic)
https://x.com/timsweeneyepic/status/2001494517996732598
@Techmeme@techhub.socialItaly's competition regulator opens two investigations into Microsoft's Activision Blizzard over sales practices it claims were "misleading and aggressive" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainab…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe current AI strategies of China and the US are complementary, as unlike the US, China isn't "AGI-pilled" yet, focusing on embodied AI and open source models (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)
https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/the-bitter-lessons
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple unveils iOS changes in Japan to comply with local law, including alternative app stores and payment options, a new fee structure, and new default controls (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/17/japan-app-store-feature-updates/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSouth Korea dropped Naver's and NCSoft's teams from its competition to develop its first sovereign AI model, as LG's, SK Telecom's, and Upstage's teams advanced (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIn South Korea's competition to develop an indigenous AI model, three of the five finalists used foreign open-source code, which they argue is practical (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Cybathlon, an event by ETH Zurich where researchers team up with people with disabilities in a competition to test brain-computer interfaces (Oliver Whang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/scien…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlibaba halves Qwen3-Max prices, from $0.861 to $0.459 per 1M input tokens and $3.441 to $1.836 per 1M output tokens for API users, amid China's AI price wars (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: EU competition watchdogs raided Temu's European headquarters in Dublin last week, amid suspicions Temu may have received unfair subsidies from Beijing (Peter Chapman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSwitzerland launches a preliminary investigation into whether Apple's terms for granting third-party access to NFC tech on iPhones violate its antitrust laws (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/12/apple-pay-swiss-antitrust-probe-nfc/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Google is set to be hit with a potentially large EU fine in Q1 2026 if it does not do more to ensure Google Play complies with EU competition rules (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainabili…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: after the Netflix-WBD deal was announced, Larry Ellison called President Trump about how the transaction would hurt competition (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/paramoun…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: ChatGPT has ~900M weekly active users; Sensor Tower: Gemini MAUs grew ~30% to 346M between August and November while ChatGPT's rose ~5% to 810M (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chatgpt-near…
