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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

“Trump’s position is that the government cannot pressure Facebook to take down anti-vaccine posts, but it can coerce Anthropic into making a version of Claude that kills people without a human in the loop.”

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Alexandra Geese @alexandrageese.eurosky.social · 05/09/2025

The multibillion fine against Google proves that the EU can act. Google’s ad monopoly bleeds media dry. This ruling is only the first crack in Google’s monopoly in the ad tech market — but it sends a signal far beyond Europe. Next step: structural remedies! www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

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EU slaps Google with €2.95B fine despite Trump trade threat

Brussels hammers U.S. search giant after internal Commission feud.

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Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 03/09/2025

"A study examining 2.6m Bluesky posts referencing more than 500k scholarly articles over the past 2.5 years found they demonstrated 'substantially higher levels of interaction' – likes, reposts, replies and quotes – and greater 'textual originality' than previously reported for X, formerly Twitter."

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Vera Franz @vera-franz.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Congrats to @davidthewid.bsky.social and @nathanckim.bsky.social on this must-read report on how #bigcloud is entrenching power off the AI gold rush #AI&MarketPowerFellowship

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I've just updated the 'Cloud overview' page, which ties together what I have written on Europe's cloud woes. The page provides a coherent narrative of what is going on (I think). And if you want to go into more depth, the underlying articles provide a lot more detail: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

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Cloud Overview - Bert Hubert

Over the past few years I’ve written a lot about the cloud, and what it means for Europe. Here I want to pull the various articles together into a coherent story. Note, nothing of what follows is in a...

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Alissa Cooper @alissacooper.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Wondering if Chrome could operate independently from Google if it were to be divested? We've got a comprehensive technical assessment for you:

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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 03/07/2025

New poll shows huge majorities of Europeans--74% of Von Der Leyen's own CDU--want a tough stance on Big Tech. This is no time to roll over. Tech is vital infrastructure, and it can be ours again--with a three-part play: Break, build, enforce. w/ @robin.berjon.com: www.politico.eu/article/digi...

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Digital 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.

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

3/ Here's the thing: there's a global market for trustworthy privacy-respecting apps. The secure messaging market alone is worth billions & growing. If it can move past the anti-encryption myopia, Europe is a natural place to incubate & innovate these exciting industries.

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Max von Thun @maxvonthun.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Google has been found by a US court to hold an illegal monopoly for the second time in a year, this time in adtech. We're still far from an actual break-up – Google will appeal and Trump could intervene at the 11th hour – but this gives Brussels all the cover it needs to move ahead in Europe.

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SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations @somoamsterdam.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

📢 An easy way for activists, academics, and journalists to monitor Big Tech's mergers and acquisitions 🔍 Our new Big Tech M&A Tracker gives an overview of the unchecked expansion of the world’s largest tech companies. Free and accessible to all. Get started:

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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 08/03/2025

Big: Trump DOJ holding the line (so far) on breaking up Chrome and forced access to the Google search index. Good omen for the upcoming ad tech case.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

There’s no way an AI agent can work "on device”. "That’s almost certainly being sent to a cloud server where it’s being processed and sent back...there’s a profound issue with security and privacy that is haunting this hype around agents" @meredithmeredith.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/s...

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Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having 'profound' security and privacy issues | TechCrunch

Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking onstage at the SXSW conference in

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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2025

It's infuriatingly stupid: "#Google and the German Federal Office for Information #Security (#BSI) have concluded a strategic cooperation agreement with the aim of promoting the development of "secure and #sovereigncloud solutions for federal, state and local authorities." This is how this […]

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Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com · 18/02/2025

My dining nook has never looked better 😂

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Vera Franz @vera-franz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Thanks @abeba.bsky.social for this incredibly insightful piece on the #AIActionSummit incl on what #publicinterestAI is and is not, the fact that the Summit overlooked how AI is increasingly entangled with global market concentration, and concrete steps on how make #publicinterestAI about the public

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Vera Franz @vera-franz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

"If Europe’s tech regulations are necessary (if not sufficient) conditions for alternative products and technologies to emerge, Big Tech’s visceral opposition makes more sense. It is a sign that Europe is on the right track. It should plough on rather than be deflected." www.ft.com/content/86ec...

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News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Our book of the week reveals how slavery, stolen labor, and ecological destruction in the Caribbean laid the foundations for today’s twin crises of racism and climate collapse. By @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social on @doubledaybooks.bsky.social buff.ly/4jWERnH

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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It’s hard to keep up with all the risk assessments, audits, and other major new info dumps from platforms about their DSA compliance. Here’s a great overview from @davidsullivan.bsky.social of where we stand, what is noteworthy so far, and what should happen next.

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Systemic Risk Assessments Hold Clues for EU Platform Enforcement

The future of online content regulation might rest on largely overlooked EU-required digital risk assessments.

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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 12/02/2025

Reuters 1, AI pirates 0.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/02/2025

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

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michael veale @michae.lv · 26/01/2025

Reminder that the ICC is expecting sanctions from Trump which may cut off the Court‘s Microsoft Azure/365 access. Relying on US tech infrastructure is even more of a systemic risk for a big organisation now — even more the NSA access you have to typically assume. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan...

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ICC braces for swift Trump sanctions over Israeli arrest warrants

Leadership at international criminal court fears new US administration will move quickly to shut it down

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ryanlammi @ryanlammi.com · 04/02/2025

Tech media is leaps and bounds ahead of the traditional newspapers covering Trump. I highly recommend subscribing to @404media.co @techdirt.com.web.brid.gy (follow @mmasnick.bsky.social) @wired.com They are putting in the work and not dancing around what's really happening.

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Max von Thun @maxvonthun.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Fascinating interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas, who acknowledges that regulators “got it right” when they blocked Nvidia’s takeover attempt in 2022. Arm’s market cap has since exploded from $40 billion to $175 billion. Antitrust enforcement is good for innovation. on.ft.com/4hNB0aA

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/02/2025

If you're attending the AI Action Summit in Paris, check out Lesan AI's demo at the African AI Village on Tuesday. Asmelash is also a @dairinstitute.bsky.social fellow. Talk to him about how OpenAI + friends have been going around threatening small businesses. restofworld.org/2023/3-minut...

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The AI startup outperforming Google Translate in Ethiopian languages

"Chatbots like ChatGPT are utterly broken or useless for these languages."

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 29/01/2025

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

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