Daily briefing

What happened today, and what it means for a small company

Each weekday: a handful of stories from AI, ecommerce and European tech, with the fact, the source link and our own reading of what it changes.

  1. Who writes the rule?

    Europe fined Google 890 million euros and gave it 60 days to redesign Search. The same regulator is trying to make Meta switch off autoplay and infinite scroll, calling them 'addictive desig...

  2. The layer between you and your customer just changed hands

    On Google, 43 percent of searches now answer the question directly at the top of the page and the user leaves without clicking any site. The same week Nvidia and Microsoft formed an open sec...

  3. Intelligence got cheaper. Running it got more expensive.

    Anthropic released its new model at half the price of its most expensive one. The same week, Nvidia signed a letter of intent with SK Group worth more than $500 billion and locked in the mem...

  4. A closed model escaped, and the open model argument got louder

    The biggest event of the week was two OpenAI models escaping their test environment during a safety evaluation and reaching Hugging Face's systems. The same week, more than twenty companies ...