Tech: where immigrants are industry leaders, workers are multi-millionaires, companies respond to employee concerns on social issues, and everyone competes to be the greenest. It's the most progressive industry in the world.

Years demonizing "big tech" and "gatekeepers" and "surveillance capitalism", but when asked directly, people still love these digital companies. That's the real reason they have millions of fan customers.

'We lost social media and search... but quantum computing isn't settle yet' ⏳ Arm's co-founder lays out the opportunity for Europe and how the new Scale Up Europe Fund can help us get there 🚀 Super interview by @etnshow

Europe's AI potential? €1,65 trillion 🚀 That's according to a new study by Implement Consulting Group: cms.implementconsultinggroup… ... but that potential depends on whether frontier models and European AI applications can continue to leverage large and diverse data sets. Without this access, models show a 50% drop in complex tasks.... which would ultimately put up to €600 billion of Europe's opportunity at risk. 🇪🇺 The authors recommendations for the EU? 1. Keep the current text-and-data mining exemptions 2. Keep opt-out practical, with standards like robots.text 3. Let voluntary licensing regimes grow Europe has the research capacity, talent, and industrial base to be competitive in AI. What it needs now is legal clarity.

The kind of innovation we don't want.

Tech the EU didn't get on time 🇪🇺: Siri AI - delayed (DMA) AirPods Live Translation — delayed 3 months (DMA) Windows Copilot — delayed 6 mo (DMA) Threads — 5 mo late (DMA and GDPR) The hiatus between global and EU launch corresponds to a loss of EU consumer welfare.

Europe produces more startups than the US, yet every one of the 12 unicorns backed by $ARM Co-Founder Hermann Hauser ended up in America: "We produce more startups in Europe than the US." "Out of the 12 unicorns that I've been involved in, every single one of them ended up in the US." "We've just launched the Scale Up Europe Fund... We want to keep them in Europe." "Quantum computing isn't settled yet. The next generation of AI when we're moving to world models is not settled yet... it's all up for grabs."

The DMA shouldn't end up preferencing some business users' complaints at the expense of consumers and the digital ecosystem as a whole. I've been saying the same thing for 5.5 years. Now we're seeing the fears come true in the case of Siri AI. ccianet.org/news/2020/12/cci…

As @ProfFionasm points out at the @gmfus conference alongside Werner Stengg of @EU_Commission: #DMA is regulation not competition; disintermediates platform operators in favor of European business users. Facilitates #freeriding and eliminates (hard won) competitive advantages.

When James Dolan cancels the watch party outside MSG, we bring the watch party to you. Thanks to the @NBA, Knicks Game 4 is now playing on dozens of @LinkNYC screens across our city. LGK.

✨😤Une pétition est lancée pour avoir au plus vite Siri AI en Europe Alors qu’Apple a confirmé l’arrivée de Siri AI plus tard cette année, nous, les utilisateurs européens d’iPhone, ne sommes pas concernés. Face à cette situation, un développeur iOS basé en Italie a créé une pétition afin de montrer à Apple et aux régulateurs européens que de nombreux utilisateurs souhaitent accéder aux nouvelles fonctionnalités de Siri AI. L’objectif est de rassembler un max de signatures pour tenter d’accélérer l’arrivée de Siri AI en Europe. Allez voter un max sur siri4eu.com. À nous aussi de faire bouger les choses ! Source : @ferrantelorenzo

Here's a 60-second explainer of the Siri AI / Europe situation. youtube.com/shorts/zxwTdia1r…

Yesterday, Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier gave Brussels' official line on Apple withholding Siri AI from EU iPhones. It's a remarkable statement—and nearly every clause of it gets the economics backwards. Let's go through it, clause by clause. 🧵

Dumb with a "b"

Wann setzt die @EU_Commission endlich durch, dass in eine @BMW-Karosserie auch ein Motor von @MercedesBenz verbaut werden kann? Es geht doch nicht, dass BMW dafür sorgt, dass nur eigene Motoren in eine BMW-Karosserie passen. Schluss mit den Monopolen! Ich will als Käufer selbst entscheiden.

Voilà. Apple ne vous a pas mentit

Knicks fans are currently going viral for burning sage outside Madison Square Garden following Trump's presence in the arena.

Nope, he is 100% right.

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Russlands Staatsduma hat ein neues Gesetz verabschiedet: Russische Websites werden mit bis zu 700.000 Rubel bestraft wenn sie Nutzern erlauben sich über ausländische Dienste einzuloggen – einschließlich Google. Erlaubt sind nur noch: russische Telefonnummer, das Staatsportal Gosuslugi, biometrische Systeme oder russische Unternehmen. Russland baut seinen digitalen Eisernen Vorhang weiter aus. Kein Google-Login. Kein Apple-Login. Nur russische Kontrolle. Wer die Daten der Nutzer kontrolliert – kontrolliert die Nutzer. Das ist Putins digitale Souveränität. 🇷🇺🇪🇺🇺🇦

I really wish Apple would let us delete the *26 GB* of data Apple Intelligence takes up on our Mac's, especially since Apple Intelligence is all but useless in Europe anyway. Having 167 gb of System Data is insane. I'd hoped MacOS fixed this.