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Policy & Regulation
DMA Enforcement Arrives: Apple and Meta Face EUR 700M in First-Ever Fines
⚡ Key Takeaways The European Commission fined Apple EUR 500M and Meta EUR 200M in April 2025 — the first-ever...
Infrastructure & Cloud
Meta’s MTIA Custom Chips: Why Big Tech Is Building Its Own AI Silicon
Meta unveils four MTIA chip generations through 2027, joining Google, Amazon, and Microsoft in a custom silicon push challenging NVIDIA's AI dominance.
Infrastructure & Cloud
Arm’s AGI CPU: Breaking the x86 Monopoly in AI Data Centers
⚡ Key Takeaways Arm's first in-house production CPU packs 136 Neoverse V3 cores and claims more than 2x the rack-level...
Policy & Regulation
Digital Services Tax: Should Algeria Tax Google, Meta, and Netflix?
⚡ Key Takeaways Every day, millions of Algerians open Instagram, search Google, stream Netflix, and download apps from the Apple...
Digital Economy
Threads Turns On the Money Machine: Meta’s 400-Million-User Ad Platform Goes Global
Meta completed Threads' global ad rollout in February 2026. With 400M+ MAUs and AI-powered targeting, a new major ad platform enters the digital marketing race.
Startups
The Acquihire Arms Race: Big Tech’s Billion-Dollar Talent Raids on AI Startups
From Google's $2.4B Windsurf deal to Meta's $14.3B Scale AI investment, Big Tech is raiding AI startups for talent while dodging antitrust.
Skills & Careers
The Middle Management Extinction: AI Is Flattening the Corporate Org Chart
Amazon cut 14,000 then 16,000 jobs. Meta per-engineer output rose 30%. Bayer halved management. The Great Flattening is reshaping careers worldwide.
Policy & Regulation
Teen Social Media Bans: Which Laws Are Surviving Court Challenges in 2026
Governments around the world are drawing a legal line between adolescents and social media platforms. Australia's law banning users under 16 from major platforms took effect in late 2024 and became the most aggressive age restriction the world had seen from a democratic government.
Digital Economy
AI Search Kills the Click: How Google and Meta Are Reinventing Their Ad Models
For thirty years, a simple transaction has underwritten the internet economy: someone types a question into a search box, gets a list of links, and clicks one. Advertisers bid for prime placement in those results.
Infrastructure & Cloud
GraphQL vs. REST in 2026: The API Design Debate That Won’t Die
The Debate That Refuses to Resolve Few technical debates in software engineering have persisted as stubbornly as GraphQL versus REST. Created by Facebook (now Meta) in 2012 for internal mobile development — led by Dan Schafer, Lee Byron, and Nick Schrock to power Facebook's
Policy & Regulation
Big Tech on Trial: The Global Antitrust Wave Reshaping the Tech Industry in 2025-2026
The dream of Silicon Valley's golden era — that technology companies could grow without limits, displace entire industries, and operate by their own rules — is colliding with a global regulatory reckoning in 2025 and 2026. Antitrust authorities in the United States, European
