https://blnglobal.business/en/bulten/ Each weekday: stories from AI, ecommerce and European tech, and what they mean for small companies. en BLN Global LLC https://blnglobal.business/en/bulten/2026-07-29.html https://blnglobal.business/en/bulten/2026-07-29.html Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0300 Serhat Belen 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 design'. Figma pulled the whole stack, from design to code, into a single tool. In China, the valuation DeepSeek kept secret leaked by accident: 52 billion dollars. In Shanghai, 29 countries founded their own AI governance body. The common thread: a small company sits at none of these tables, yet lives by the rules all five of them write. The good news is that the edge of a small company that can read the rules over one that cannot has never been bigger. https://blnglobal.business/en/bulten/2026-07-28.html https://blnglobal.business/en/bulten/2026-07-28.html Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0300 Serhat Belen 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 security alliance with more than thirty seven companies, but the three big model owners (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic) were left out. On one side the Chinese open models that small companies rely on took the top spots on developer platforms; on the other, Europe put money into building its own cyber defence tools. The common thread: the rules of the layers between you and your customer (search, the security standard, model supply) are being rewritten among the big players. A small company does not sit at these tables, but lives with the outcome of all three. https://blnglobal.business/en/bulten/2026-07-27.html https://blnglobal.business/en/bulten/2026-07-27.html Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0300 Serhat Belen 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 memory for a two gigawatt facility that will not open until 2027. Intelligence per token is getting cheaper; the memory and electricity that run it are being reserved years ahead. For a small company the reading is this: model rent will fall every quarter, but anyone who wants capacity of their own is now queueing behind a line that formed in 2026. https://blnglobal.business/en/bulten/2026-07-26.html https://blnglobal.business/en/bulten/2026-07-26.html Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0300 Serhat Belen 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 including Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta published a joint letter opposing restrictions on open weight models. Read together, the two say something specific: the assumption that closed models are safer was tested in the field this week, and it did not hold.