big tech
Nobel prizes for AI researchers raise concerns about prize categories
The recent awarding of Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics to Google-affiliated AI pioneers has sparked controversy, raising questions about Big Tech’s growing influence in cutting-edge research and whether the Nobel Prize categories adequately reflect modern scientific breakthroughs, according to a recent report by Reuters.
10 October 2024
Can tech giants solve climate change and social inequality?
The Great Tech story implies that the world will see a smaller group of winners who bigger clout than the rest.
14 April 2024
EU tech rules will create clicks, not competition
Alphabet, Meta Platforms , Apple , Amazon.com , ByteDance and Microsoft are the first targets of the Digital Markets Act, a 2022 law
28 December 2023
Artificial intelligence is still far from being ‘intelligent’
Why does Big Tech want an immediate 6-month pause on any further development?
13 June 2023
The role of Big Tech and influencers amid conflicts
While Putin obviously deserves reprimand, should social media and tech giants encourage violence?
16 March 2023
The Napoleons of Big Tech
Business history is full of executives going rogue with corporate funds.
5 December 2022
Big Tech and our right to know
The right to know doesn’t end with the existence of a law.
11 October 2022
Big tech should share Europe network costs
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 in the bloc, a document showed on Monday.
2 August 2022
You should be worried about surveillance capitalism
Surveillance capitalism is a process that relies on the constant gathering of online data by tech companies.
30 June 2022