Public Sector Brussels tells Google to hand rivals its search crown jewels as privacy row brews Includes a to-do list on search data sharing and platform access as DMA enforcement ramps up Brussels has told Google to open up its search data and give rivals equal footing on its own platforms, sketch… …
Off-Prem UK watchdog targets Microsoft licensing in cloud competition probe CMA to assess whether the company's terms unfairly favor Azure over rival platforms The UK's competition watchdog will investigate Microsoft's business software ecosystem over concerns that its licensing policies reduce com… …
… "Politicians stand up and talk about standardizing frameworks for procurement to get better discounts and value for money... sometimes it appears contracts are already locked down." In January 2025, the Competition and Markets Authority CMA said it planned to look at how AWS and Microsoft dominate … …
… But there's a more fundamental risk – remaining relevant in the face of increasingly capable competition from China. …
… In a blog post on Thursday, software developer Simon Willison remarked that the two deals have occurred amid intense competition between OpenAI and Anthropic. …
… Openreach rivals appear sanguine about the situation, with a spokesperson for altnet CityFibre telling The Register that "the Telecoms Access Review provides CityFibre with a stable regulatory framework as we scale our network and bring the benefits of genuine infrastructure competition – lower pri… …
… Few companies operate at this intersection on a comparable scale.” But the window is closing fast, as rivals are all moving in this direction including Apple, Google, Samsung, and OpenAI which has iPhone designer Jony Ive building … something. “This will not be an uncontested opportunity,” Jeronimo… …
AI + ML PrismML debuts energy-sipping 1-bit LLM in bid to free AI from the cloud Bonsai 8B model is competitive with other 8B models but 14x smaller and 5x more…
… According to Mistral, Leanstral-120B-A6B outperforms larger more parameters open source rivals like GLM5-744B-A40B, Kimi-K2.5-1T-32B, and Qwen3.5-397B-A17B on FLTEval. …
…The latter debuted in January and is thought to be competitive with Nvidia’s H20, a throttled version of a 2023-vintage Hopper architecture accelerator. If Wu was referring solely to the…