2026-07-01
Meta wants to rent out its spare AI compute, and Wall Street likes the idea
A reported plan to sell surplus computing power would put Meta up against AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, and give investors a reason to look past its spending. Meta has spent two years buying every scrap of AI computing power it can lay hands on. Now it appears to be working out how to sell […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-01
Swedish court orders Google to pay Klarna nearly $2 billion in antitrust damages
A Swedish court has ordered Google to pay more than 14 billion kronor to Klarna’s PriceRunner subsidiary for illegally favouring its own comparison shopping service in search results. The ruling, handed down on Tuesday by the Patent and Market Court in Stockholm, is the largest competition damages award in Swedish history. Presiding judge Linda Kullberg […]<br /> This story continues at [...]
2026-07-01
Portugal open-sources Amália, its first national AI model, in a bet on European Portuguese
A country of just over 10 million people now has a large language model that speaks its own version of the language. Portugal has released Amália, its first national AI model built specifically for European Portuguese, and it has done so in about the most deliberate way a government can. The model, its training data […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-01
Sony will stop making physical PlayStation game discs in January 2028
Sony will stop producing physical game discs for new PlayStation titles starting in January 2028, the company announced on Tuesday in a PlayStation Blog post. New games released after that date will be available only as digital downloads through the PlayStation Store. Existing disc-based games will continue to work on compatible hardware. The decision follows […]<br /> This story continues [...]
2026-07-01
GM’s Q2 sales fell four percent as EV demand dropped and Toyota closed in
General Motors’ second-quarter US sales fell just over four percent as demand for its all-electric vehicles and Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks declined year over year. The Detroit automaker reported selling 714,896 vehicles from April through June, down from 746,588 units during the same period in 2025. First-half sales came in at roughly 1,300,000 units, down […]<br /> This story con [...]
2026-07-01
Palantir’s ‘AI sovereignty’ manifesto is a war on how AI makes money
Palantir has a new enemy, and it is the way most of the AI industry makes money. Its nine-point manifesto tells institutions to hoard their data, own their model weights, and stop “tokenmaxxing.” It is a pitch dressed as a principle. On Tuesday, Palantir posted its “thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty” on X. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
