AI Bill of Rights shows Big Tech’s teeth
White House powerless to stop it
Attempts by the White House to bring in a bill of rights for the age of algorithms has shown how weak elected governments are over the money and power of Big Tech.
Telcos call for more money from Big Tech
Users should pay
Europes big telcos including BT, Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom want users to pay for the costs of data fuelled by the global streaming and internet boom.
Euro governments want Big Tech to pay for internet improvements
This will go down well
After failing to get Big Tech to pay any significant amounts of tax, the government's of France, Italy and Spain are stepping up pressure on the European Commission to come up with legislation that ensures Big Tech firms partly finance telecoms infrastructure.
Foreign countries continue to clamp down on big tech
While the US Supreme court lets them do what they like
While the US Supreme Court appears to be letting Big Tech get away with murder, foreign governments are taking a different approach.
US Supreme Court protects Big Tech
Federal government moves to protect consumers unconsitutional
The US Supremes might be making a move to protect Big Tech from efforts made by the federal government to restrain their power.
Big Tech not all that keen on AI products
The only way is Ethics
Search engine outfit Google is not rushing to turn its cloud into AI based decision making.
Democrats might abandon big tech constraints
Terrified of losing the election if their employers get cross
A bipartisan legislative effort to rein in the nation's largest tech companies is facing fresh resistance from a faction of Senate Democrats who are worried that Big Tech will cut off their lobbying money before they go into an election.
Big Tech staff want their companies to do more for Ukraine
A powerful lobby group
Staff working for big tech companies are providing their management with a powerful motivation to do more to isolate Tsar Putin and his chronies and do more for Ukraine.
Big Tech uses energy-optimised machine-learning
We are going to save the planet
Tech’s biggest names are teaming up with boffins to develop energy-optimised machine-learning and quantum-computing systems under the MIT AI Hardware Programme.
EU agree to curb Big Tech
Landmark laws
Negotiators from the European Parliament and EU member states have agreed on a landmark law to curb the market dominance of United States tech giants such as Google, Meta, Amazon and Apple.