Netflix has announced the loss of a thousand jobs and the replacement of its ‘content officer’. The streaming service is grappling with a crisis of engagement, but the real competition does not come from its direct rivals: YouTube is increasingly dominating home entertainment and currently appears invincible.

From Siri to open-weight models, American and Chinese Big Tech companies are setting the pace. The EU is losing ground in innovation and lacks an internal market for the Dutch machinery that makes the most advanced semiconductors possible

The debates, the controversies, the announcements, the warnings about the end of the world: in the artificial intelligence sector, everything is happening on X, formerly Twitter, despite it technically being a competitor, namely xAI. Recently, even Zuckerberg had to return there to announce the latest developments from Meta AI: in short, if you’re not on X, you’re nobody (at least in this field).

Within the space of a few days, both Meta and OpenAI have launched two similar services (Muse and Dots), both accompanied by friendly, cute digital avatars that serve many purposes, but above all to reassure users

The U.S. President is becoming increasingly involved in the artificial intelligence sector, which is growing ever more unpopular; this, perhaps, is one of the reasons why he has taken it into his head to change the name of the technology. It remains to be seen whether the strategy will succeed.

It was the week of the iPhone Duo, the foldable phone, but also of two new Siri features – currently available on the Apple Watch – through which Apple aims to record everything. The company stresses that this is done securely and with respect for privacy, but in doing so, it joins Meta and other firms that use AI to listen to – and analyse – everything users say.

The AI race is propelling not only Nvidia but also Caterpillar, lorry drivers, construction firms and logistics companies. Behind ChatGPT lie bulldozers, cables, water and energy: so ‘digital gold’ requires very tangible infrastructure

A few news items about a company unknown to most people that is at the centre of this summer’s biggest story: the ‘escape’ of GPT-5.6 Sol, the OpenAI model that broke free from its containment and went off on its own, unbeknown to its programmers. Behind this story lie some particularly disturbing details, but also a charming robot

The technology sector has a theory to explain the bipartisan sentiment of antipathy (if not outright hatred) towards these infrastructures: it is said to be a psychological operation (‘psy-op’) in which the number one suspect is the Chinese government. Meanwhile, the anti-data centre movement is gaining ground