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
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
Trump says the US is “terminating all discussions on trade with Canada” in response to Canada's decision to impose a digital services tax on US tech firms
Talks Are Over Emma Roth / The Verge : Trump halts trade negotiations with Canada over tax on Big Tech. Tom Howell Jr / Washington Times : Trump cancels trade talks with Canada over digital tax Kris H...
How Palantir embedded itself in the day-to-day work of Ukraine's wartime government in an unprecedented way, as Ukraine becomes a laboratory for military tech
Early on the morning of June 1, 2022, Alex Karp, the CEO of the data-analytics firm Palantir Technologies, crossed the border between Poland … Mastodon: @TechDesk@flipboard.social . X: @alanasemuels ,...
US v. Google: Satya Nadella says Google cemented its search dominance via default search deals with Apple and he may have been overenthusiastic about ChatGPT
and Apple could fix it New York Times : Microsoft C.E.O. Testifies That Google's Power in Search Is Ubiquitous Bloomberg : Microsoft CEO Says Google Search Dominance to Give It AI Edge Diane Bartz / R...
OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection make voluntary AI promises to the White House, like cybersecurity investment and watermarking
White House Pranav Dixit / Business Today : OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon and others pledge to watermark AI content for safety Ryan Morrison / Tech Monitor : White House secures AI safety commitment As...
Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon join the NIST's push to scrap the leap second, which keeps clocks in sync with the Earth's rotation but can cause glitches
so Meta wants to get rid of them Mariella Moon / Engadget : Meta calls for the death of the leap second Ciaran / worthreading : Worth Reading Issue #12 Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : Meta and ot...
FTC says Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft made 819 unreported acquisition deals of $1M+, including for patents and acquihires, from 2010 to 2019
- Report shows hundreds of deals by tech giants went unchecked — Antitrust enforcers must close loopholes, FTC Chair Khan says Source: Federal Trade Commission .
UK proposes new pro-competition rules for digital economy, including allowing its Digital Markets Unit to suspend, block, and reverse decisions by tech giants
Digital firms with deep-rooted market power to be subject to mandatory code to drive up competition
Inside the World Wide Web Consortium as members debate the future of online privacy, with browsers' engineers often at odds with companies that rely on tracking
James Rosewell could see his company's future was in jeopardy. — It was January 2020, and Google had just announced key details … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @hkanji , @jason_kint , @tiffanycli , @davi...