Although unlikely, producing hardware may put Alphabet in the first row of the AI race

Inside Google’s $200bn Wall Street finance machine for Anthropic

Private credit, chip leases and data centre guarantees underpin a vast new model for AI spending

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Europe's X Killer Is Live! What a a headline for a Monday!😃🚀 Thank you very much for the interview, Philippe Séjalon @phisej.wsocial.eu and Patrice Séjalon @patricesej.wsocial.eu! 🙏 @wsocial.eu www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyXi...

Musk Threatened the EU, Europe Built Its X Rival in 6 Months!

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Of all the 5 pre-AI apocalypse riders (Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Musk Inc. and Meta), Zuckerberg is the weakest. Only 2% of their revenue come from non-core data mining business. After spending around US$80bn in the Metaverse flop, going gung-ho into an unwinnable war seems reckless.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly

Investors are not happy.

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Something that I didn’t hear so far: JP Morgan was behind both flop attempts to hijack football into private hands - the European Superleague and the sale of the World Cup. Nine Inch Nails “I am afraid of Americans” come to my mind...

Fifa scraps proposal to sell off stakes in World Cup after widespread backlash

Gianni ⁠Infantino has said Fifa ​has scrapped plans to ⁠sell a stake in the World ⁠Cup to private ​investors ‌after widespread ‌backlash

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The death of the first of the “invincibili” comes close to the shameful FIFA plan to sell the World Cup to Trump lackeys. Baresi was not only a player that reshuffled the idea of a defender, but a loyalist to club and country. The king is dead Long live to the king.

Franco Baresi, iconic Milan and Italy legend, dies aged 66

Baresi, who captained club and country, was one of the most recognisable players of the ⁠golden era of Italian football in the 1980s and 1990s

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UEFA had its minimum decency to deny joining this pathetic attempt of the Trumpian world buying a tournament that once was majestic. Infantino is so easy to despise that you pinch yourself to see if it’s really true. He makes one miss Havelange and Blatter.

Fifa’s sales pitch revealed: more tournaments, more debt … but no mention of women’s game

Fifa’s pitch to persuade members to approve sale of World Cup’s commercial rights includes more tournaments, higher ticket prices and debt financing

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Trumpism will survive Trump and the biggest legacy of this almost-disease is that you cannot trust anyone but yourself. Lash at the EU all you want, but there is safety in numbers.

The Paradox of Self-Reliance

Building an independent defense industry does not mean going it alone.

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Yesterday, chipmakers stocks had another day stumbling across the world. Forecasts for AI datacenters building have been shelved by half compared to 18 months ago. Advertisers are wondering how much AI really delivers. AI will happen, sure, but the bubble is pierced. Have AI shares? Sell them now.

‘We’re starting to wonder’: Ad industry chases AI value as usage outpaces proof

Every choice has a price and the bill always comes due. Marketers are only just starting to work out what theirs actually costs for AI.

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This is one to monitor: It’s weird to imagine an European company to manage to be the first to create a fusion plant, but EU companies don’t fight the coal & oil lobby on a sclerotic pay-as-you-go president. Plus, Alphabet thinks long-term to fill the gap in the AI frenzy run.

Google Invests in $468-Million Funding Round for German Fusion Group

Proxima Fusion, a Munich, Germany-based group that is considered among the leading European companies working on fusion energy, said it completed a €411 million ($468 million) funding round. Proxima o...

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“With about 9.5 million drivers and couriers on the Uber platform, the CEO also acknowledges that autonomous vehicles will eventually fulfil a majority of those trips in the future. When asked what those millions of people do next, Dara simply says: “I do not know.’”.

Why Uber has Already Burned Through its AI Budget

Leading transportation tech company Uber exhausts its AI budget four months into the year due to rising adoption of AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor

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What would happen if LinkedIn banned posts written in the first person?

True, Alphabet AI models lag behind, but they have unique competitive advantages: in-house chip production control (or almost), multiple revenue sources (some with no competition), a fully built datacenter fleet and global scale. They will be in the last meter head-to-head.

Google Gemini Launch Delayed as Tech Falls Short of Internal Goals

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model, because the company has been taking time to try to improve its capabilities, particu...

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It was an unease feeling to visit Brazil after 3 years. Adversarial political tactics played a central role in Lula’s rise to power, but now the right wing adopted it, leading to a political dead end. Confrontation appears to be the only path forward. A briefing: share.google/aimode/0KAo8...

There is no need to dig to find an issue here. Internet access is a public service, not just another business. Networks belonging to private players is only ok in competitive markets. Four companies owning 75% of the industry (data centres services) is a cartel. How to regulate an int’l market?

BSRIA: ‘Data centres dominate global cabling’

BSRIA, a UK-based research, testing, and consultancy organisation, has released its latest analysis of the global structured cabling sector. The

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For decades, energy was an input. In the AI era, it's becoming the product.

AI is turning energy into the hottest business in America

The scramble for electricity has become the gold rush beneath the AI boom.

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Don’t take the AI datacenter hype as granted. Very few people like the idea to have a massive datacenter as neighbor. And the disgruntled citizens next door can become a huge headache.

Exclusive: Local Opposition to Data Centers Explodes in 2026

The number of data centers canceled after pushback set a record in the first quarter of the year, new data from Heatmap Pro shows.

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Energy again. Watch out for the AI datacenters clustering locations. This is where AI economy will root itself. Energy prices for citizens will still rise due to AI DC’s demand.

It is clear that we no longer live in a capitalist society when a small number of players have such leverage over entire industries. The news industry is a prime example of this.

In chains: why journalism lives under the technofeudalism

News companies used to hold their own facilities to deliver their product. Now, they depend on a very few companies that are also their competitors.

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This is not new, but given the EU DNA of @wsocial.eu , it’s worth remembering 🙂…

Europa_2057 on Instagram: "La sinistra la chiama potenza coloniale eurocentrica. La destra la chiama decadenza. Tutti, in qualche modo, saltano addosso all'Europa. Per Slavoj Žižek è esattamente que...

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The US digital economy will suffer dramatic consequences if the country persist in their attempts to browbeat the EU with absurd tariffs. Open models are much more resilient and hard to challenge. It’ll also force US big tech to spend more to stop the Chinese rise. www.axios.com/2026/07/17/c...

China just erased America's AI lead

Kimi's K3 model has caught up to the American frontier.

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Alternative energy will be the crucial factor to make the datacenter economy become sustainable. Follow the moves hyperscalers will make and you’ll see the likely winners.

Can upcycled EV batteries really power the grid? | Q&A with Moment Energy CEO Edward Chiang

Moment Energy co-founder Edward Chiang shares how repurposed EV batteries can benefit the grid as his company celebrates new manufacturing facilities and continued market growth.

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