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Larry Summers, a veteran of US economic policy and one of the key figures in stabilising corporate governance at OpenAI after the 2023 crisis, has resigned from the company’s board of directors. The former US Treasury secretary’s decision comes just days after Congress released documents shedding new light
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The European Commission is taking a clear step backwards on the digital regulation front. Responding to growing criticism from US tech giants and concerns about the region’s economic competitiveness, Brussels on Wednesday proposed a package of changes known as the ‘Digital Omnibus’. The proposal involves not only simplifying the
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It is rare in the world of tech giants for the CEO of a company gaining 46 per cent on the stock market this year to publicly invoke the spectre of the ‘irrational euphoria’ of the dotcom bubble era. However, Sundar Pichai, Alphabet’s CEO, opted for this surprising act
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European Union regulators made an unprecedented move on Tuesday, naming 19 companies – including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft – as critical service providers for European banking. The decision fundamentally changes the balance of power between Big Tech and financial supervision, moving the relationship from a partnership to a strictly
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Tuesday’s events became yet another recent demonstration of how much the modern internet depends on just a few key infrastructure providers to function. Cloudflare, a company handling an estimated one-fifth of global web traffic, struggled with a major outage that temporarily cut users off from key platforms including Service
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Google no longer has time for lab experiments. Tuesday’s launch of the Gemini 3, just eleven months after the debut of the previous generation, signals a fundamental shift in strategy in Mountain View. While executives at the conference were keen to quote leaderboards in which the new model outperforms
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The exclusivity in Microsoft’ s relationship with OpenAI has officially come to an end. On Tuesday, the Redmond giant, in a rare alliance with Nvidia, sealed a new configuration at the top of the tech industry by investing in Anthropic, a major rival to the makers of ChatGPT. As part
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French cloud provider OVHcloud has just made the most decisive move to make the Old Continent independent of US computing technology. The launch of its new Quantum-as-a-Service platform is not only a technology launch, but above all a signal that Europe intends to build its own sovereign ecosystem in the
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Speculation is growing in Cupertino about succession plans. According to reports in the Financial Times, Tim Cook, who has led Apple for 14 years and recently turned 65, could step down as early as next year. Although neither Cook nor Apple are commenting on these revelations, the board of directors
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Competition in the x86 processor market is gathering pace, with AMD consistently consolidating its position at Intel‘s expense. Although Intel continues to dominate, controlling around 70 per cent of the market, the latest Mercury Research analysis confirms that AMD has effectively secured close to 30 per cent share for
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The regulatory front against Google in Europe has just gained strength. The regional court in Berlin (Landgericht Berlin) has ruled that the conglomerate must pay a total of €572 million in damages to two German price comparison sites for abusing its dominant position. This is the next chapter in a
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Intel has made a significant adjustment to its server processor roadmap, opting to strategically simplify its offerings. The company has confirmed that the upcoming Xeon 7 family of chips, known by the codename Diamond Rapids, will not be offered in previously planned, more budget variants with eight memory channels. Instead,