Hackernews posts about Big Tech

Big Tech is a term used to describe the four largest and most influential technology companies in the world - Amazon, Facebook (now Meta), Google, and Apple - that have significant power and influence over the digital landscape.

1. Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech's "top priority" (techoversight.org)
   297 points by Shamar 28 days ago | 165 comments
2. 'A Big Fuck You to Big Tech': New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center (www.commondreams.org)
   57 points by abdelhousni 13 days ago | 20 comments
3. Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing (www.wsj.com)
   54 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 26 days ago | 24 comments
4. Big Tech groups race to fund unprecedented $660B AI spending spree (www.ft.com)
   39 points by petethomas 24 days ago | 5 comments
5. Big tech stocks lose billions as AI spending fears hit valuations (www.reuters.com)
   29 points by billybuckwheat 17 days ago | 6 comments
6. Ask HN: What's it like working in big tech recently with all the AI tools?
   23 points by ex-aws-dude 8 days ago | 15 comments
7. Doctorow: "'Build it, they will come' is a trap." Leaving Big Tech / USA's Stack (pluralistic.net)
   10 points by replooda 4 days ago | 1 comments
8. US plans Big Tech carve-out from next wave of chip tariffs (www.ft.com)
   8 points by petethomas 23 days ago | discuss
9. Forcing Rust: How Big Tech Lobbied the Government into a Language Mandate (medium.com)
   7 points by akagusu 27 days ago | 2 comments
10. Big Tech Companies Prepare to Skirt Trump's $100k H-1B Fee (www.wsj.com)
    7 points by johntfella 22 days ago | 1 comments
11. Big Tech's 'breathtaking' $660B spending spree reignites AI bubble fears (www.ft.com)
    6 points by zerosizedweasle 27 days ago | 1 comments
12. Leave big tech behind How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more (www.theguardian.com)
    6 points by Brajeshwar 6 days ago | discuss
13. Leave big tech behind How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more (www.theguardian.com)
    6 points by billybuckwheat 7 days ago | discuss
14. The 'European' Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech Smartphone (www.wired.com)
    5 points by doener 2 days ago | 1 comments
15. Big Tech Says Generative AI Will Save the Planet. It Doesn't Offer Much Proof (www.wired.com)
    5 points by g-b-r 14 days ago | 1 comments
16. Big Tech still dreams of mass surveillance – now people are pushing back (www.salon.com)
    5 points by speckx 8 days ago | discuss
17. Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy (www.wsj.com)
    5 points by saikatsg 26 days ago | discuss
18. Apple is the only Big Tech company whose capex declined last quarter (sherwood.news)
    5 points by elsewhen 26 days ago | discuss
19. Di.day is a movement to encourage people to ditch Big Tech (itsfoss.com)
    5 points by MilnerRoute 26 days ago | discuss
20. Graham Linehan to speak at congressional hearing on European big tech regulation (www.irishtimes.com)
    4 points by piltdownman 28 days ago | 6 comments
21. Addicted to the algorithm – Big Tech lobbies to keep us hooked on social media (corporateeurope.org)
    4 points by robtherobber 2 days ago | discuss
22. Breaking up with Big Tech – Progress update (thedent.net)
    4 points by speckx 3 days ago | discuss
23. Welcome to the $600B AI era, where Big Tech is spending like it's a Gilded Age (www.businessinsider.com)
    4 points by zerosizedweasle 27 days ago | discuss
24. Big Tech's $1.1T cloud computing backlog (sherwood.news)
    4 points by speckx 27 days ago | discuss
25. Big Tech's Gulf megaprojects are trapped between two war choke points (restofworld.org)
    3 points by car about 19 hours ago | discuss
26. Trump says he has told big tech companies to build their own power plants (www.reuters.com)
    3 points by giuliomagnifico 8 days ago | discuss
27. Big Tech's Claims That AI Can Help Fix the Climate Crisis Are "Greenwashing" (www.motherjones.com)
    3 points by cdrnsf 15 days ago | discuss
28. An AI bubble is not big tech's only worry (www.economist.com)
    3 points by thm 29 days ago | discuss
29. How a Social Media Addiction Trial Threatens Big Tech (www.bloomberg.com)
    2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 15 days ago | 1 comments
30. Big Tech vs. OpenClaw (www.jakequist.com)
    2 points by headalgorithm 26 days ago | 1 comments