Hackernews posts about BigTech

1. Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to (economist.com)
   309 points by andsoitis 21 days ago | 182 comments
2. Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz (arstechnica.com)
   76 points by JeanKage 6 days ago | 124 comments
3. 'Capitalism has to become more humane': a Stanford economist on big tech (www.theguardian.com)
   76 points by xyzal 6 days ago | 58 comments
4. Big Tech will spend nearly $700B on AI in 2026. No one knows where buildout ends (fortune.com)
   11 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 23 days ago | 2 comments
5. How the AP uncovered US big tech's role in China's digital police state (apnews.com)
   11 points by ki4jgt 19 days ago | discuss
6. Big Tech will spend nearly $700B on AI this year (fortune.com)
   7 points by mgh2 25 days ago | 3 comments
7. Big tech is sacrificing its cashflows to prop up the AI boom (www.economist.com)
   6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 11 days ago | 2 comments
8. Big tech bets on new mascots in bid to seem more cuddly (www.bbc.com)
   6 points by billybuckwheat 11 days ago | discuss
9. Big Tech is moving data out of the Gulf through Iraqi oil pipelines (restofworld.org)
   6 points by JumpCrisscross 15 days ago | discuss
10. Big Tech's $725B AI spending spree sends free cash flow to a decade low (www.ft.com)
    6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 17 days ago | discuss
11. How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll (www.thejournal.ie)
    6 points by austinallegro 27 days ago | discuss
12. Why are university students booing big tech at graduation ceremonies? (english.elpais.com)
    5 points by geox 6 days ago | 7 comments
13. Pentagon strikes deals with 7 Big Tech companies after shunning Anthropic (www.cnn.com)
    5 points by breve 23 days ago | 1 comments
14. Big tech's fat profits conceal unsettling cashflows (www.economist.com)
    4 points by petethomas 12 days ago | 1 comments
15. Big Tech cut 80k jobs, blamed AI; experts say firms are overstaffed 25%-75% (finance.yahoo.com)
    4 points by ZeidJ 22 days ago | 1 comments
16. The EU's Big Tech law was meant to move fast. It hasn't (www.politico.eu)
    4 points by miohtama about 16 hours ago | discuss
17. Māori Text-to-Speech Model Spurns Big Tech's Values (spectrum.ieee.org)
    4 points by bwoah 4 days ago | discuss
18. SK Hynix flooded with offers from Big Tech to secure memory chips (www.reuters.com)
    4 points by p_stuart82 5 days ago | discuss
19. How Brazil is starting to rein in Big Tech (www.codastory.com)
    4 points by cdrnsf 12 days ago | discuss
20. Big Tech Keeps Piling on AI Debt. Spending Is Set to Soar (www.barrons.com)
    4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 13 days ago | discuss
21. Big Tech software era is over, says top investor James Anderson (www.ft.com)
    3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 days ago | 2 comments
22. Performance per engineer doubled at six big tech companies, and the metric used (medium.com)
    3 points by alienll 11 days ago | 2 comments
23. Anthropic's Olah says AI must be guided from outside Big Tech (www.reuters.com)
    3 points by alach11 about 9 hours ago | 1 comments
24. Pentagon strikes deals with 7 Big Tech companies after shunning Anthropic (www.cnn.com)
    3 points by yurivish 24 days ago | 1 comments
25. Academia, startups, big tech, and back again (austinhenley.com)
    3 points by azhenley 8 days ago | discuss
26. Big Tech goes beyond Wall Street for AI borrowing (www.ft.com)
    3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 10 days ago | discuss
27. Big Tech's AI Debt Binge Tests High-Grade Market, Barclays Says (www.bloomberg.com)
    2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 days ago | discuss
28. Big Tech Backs Colorado OS-Level Age Data Bill (reclaimthenet.org)
    2 points by Cider9986 5 days ago | discuss
29. Big Tech's AI Trap (crib.social)
    2 points by gslepak 6 days ago | discuss
30. Academia, startups, big tech, and back again (austinhenley.com)
    2 points by ibobev 7 days ago | discuss