Big Tech

The missing ingredient for European tech sovereignty

“Mangos” is shorthand for a six-company cluster said to be at the centre of the AI wave: Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI and SpaceX.

Are the ‘Mangos’ stocks already turning soft?

Is the current market dominance merely a byproduct of the AI-specific supply cycle?

Is the AI trade still intact? And why oil might be your next surprise

Meta has removed facial-recognition code from an artificial intelligence companion app for its smart glasses.
THINKING ALOUD

The dumb choices that make smart glasses so appealing

Agentic AI systems will act, plan, reason and execute complex tasks with minimal human intervention.
CIO CORNER

The Magnificent Seven: Old wineskin for new wine

More than three years into a bull market fuelled by excitement about AI, two key pillars remain intact: Big Tech profit growth continues to outpace the rest of the market, and the flow of money into AI infrastructure keeps growing.

Big Tech earnings show split between AI trade winners and losers

“We are a sovereign nation. And my government will make decisions based upon the Australian national interest,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says.

Australia to charge Big Tech companies 2% levy unless they strike local news deals

The writer suggests that AI "scrapers" compensate the owners of the copyright they use - or even that a tax on big AI businesses be used to support the creative commons, that is, human-created arts and sciences.

What to do when the ‘public good’ of information goes bad

Plans are in flux and had not been signed by Trump, the Financial Times  reported.

US plans Big Tech carve-out from next chip tariffs, FT reports