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Policy @ DuckDuckGo. Follow for Tintin memes and tech/competition policy (or both). Brussels | Berlin

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You're not the European Commission, you can feel free to use stronger language

19.02.2026 17:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"In an eight-month study of how generative AI changed work habits at a U.S.-based technology company with about 200 employees, we found that employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so."

12.02.2026 10:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...

Research into actual behaviors at the workplace hints to AI not replacing work, but rather intensifying it. Sounds familiar with what other technologies did in the past, like the ability to connect & communicate at any time.

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

12.02.2026 10:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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'AI That Understands You': Mark Zuckerberg Plans to Deepen AI's Presence in Our Online Lives "Glasses are the ultimate incarnation of this vision," he added.

Zuckerberg says glasses that integrate Meta's AI tech are "going to be able to see what you see, hear what you hear, talk to you, and help you as you go about your day".

I don't know for you but it just sent chills through my nerves.

gizmodo.com/ai-that-unde...

29.01.2026 08:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

.@arcapde.bsky.social : "The Digital Omnibus proposal is bricolage" - disagreeing with the European Commission's rep insistence that the proposal's goal isn't to reduce privacy rights. #dataprotectionday

28.01.2026 13:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Seen at EDPS Data Protection Day 🍪🔪

28.01.2026 11:08 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why China’s women are having fewer babies - www.ft.com/content/8434... via @FT

23.01.2026 14:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Such an impressive drop in fertility in the world's most populous countries. One of the defining traits of this century.

23.01.2026 14:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

... easily evaded, cities are bombed. But "order comes from action; let's end this Groundhog Day."

22.01.2026 16:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivers a special address at the 2026 World Economic Forum – watch live
YouTube video by Guardian News Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivers a special address at the 2026 World Economic Forum – watch live

How could Zelensky not be bitter as he flew in from a freezing Kyiv, 4 years in the war? Sometimes it feels like Europe is accommodating itself with the dreadful "equilibrium" of this war. Sanctions are... www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQdm...

22.01.2026 16:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Not sure if Trump got confused or if the problem in fact got bigger, but he just talked about getting "Iceland" right now in Davos

21.01.2026 14:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney Special Address at Davos WEF 2026
YouTube video by DRM News LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney Special Address at Davos WEF 2026

Remarkable speech by Mark Carney - worth watching youtu.be/dqtDxkuvUdM

20.01.2026 22:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Apple and Google’s Gemini deal means for both companies They’re putting up a united front against AI newcomers.

Judge Mehta was wrong wrong wrong. Wrong. WRONG. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

13.01.2026 18:11 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Les prélèvements sur les sociétés non financières et les aides qu'elles ont reçues en 2024 Les prélèvements sur les sociétés non financières et les aides qu'elles ont reçues en 2024

www.fipeco.fr

18.12.2025 15:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

...Chypre et la Suède (23,2 %), loin devant l’Allemagne (11,8 %)."

18.12.2025 15:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Les entreprises françaises, trop aidées ? Si on soustrait de leurs impôts les aides publiques, la France est toujours sur ce funeste podium :

"La France était à la 3e place de l’UE pour les prélèvements nets des aides en % de leur valeur ajoutée, derrière...

www.lesechos.fr/economie-fra...

18.12.2025 15:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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"But, AI..."

18.12.2025 09:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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iOS vs Android share: follow the money

18.12.2025 09:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Google crawling advantage in one image:

18.12.2025 09:43 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Search engine crawlers still top AI crawlers & AI search bots

18.12.2025 09:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review The Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year In Review features interactive charts, graphs, and maps you can use to explore what changed on the Internet Worldwide throughout 2025.

Pretty cool year in review by @cloudflare.social radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-revi...

Some interesting facts:
- Snapchat and LinkedIn now outperforming X
- Perplexity saw more traffic than Gemini in 2025
...

18.12.2025 09:40 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

"celebrating" the 10y anniversary soon

13.12.2025 10:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's not just about throwing money. The other key priority rightly expressed in the draghi report is to tear down internal EU trade barriers. PrioritIES really as it's a huge multi pronged effort

13.12.2025 10:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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La AI-assisted search de DuckDuckGo est maintenant disponible en Français (+ Espagnol, Allemand, Néerlandais) !

Et comme toutes nos fonctionalités d'IA, cela reste optionel, privé et utile.

09.12.2025 13:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Brexit should have been a lesson. It's a misunderstanding of sovereignty. Individual countries that are not China or the US have to follow the rules set by major powers as they have no bargaining power.

Only together European countries are strong.

07.12.2025 13:47 — 👍 19    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1

Welcomed explainer from @signal.org's president about last week's serious AWS-related incident. The concentration of infrastructure / resources among "hyperscalers" she points to is reminiscent to what exists with web search infrastructure.

27.10.2025 11:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

...curbing exclusivity, GenAI alone as market force is unlikely to break Google’s search dominance.

More by Mihir Kshirsagar ⬆️

22.10.2025 14:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Will GenAI Break Google’s Dominance in Search? - ProMarket Judge Amit Mehta shaped his remedies in the Google Search case on the assumption that startups developing generative artificial intelligence models can restore competition in internet search. Mihir Ks...

When it comes to web search, #GenAI looks more like a format shift within search than an external disruptive entrant; incumbents, especially Google, are positioned to absorb and dominate it.

Without stronger interventions beyond...

www.promarket.org/2025/10/20/w...

22.10.2025 14:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Just like Google managed to cement dominance on browser and then mobile, its control over distribution points & data advantage is set to reproduce the same w/ AI.

It's a call for meaningful policy interventions, but also a call for the plurality of competitors to expand & deepen their partnerships

20.10.2025 13:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

my latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social on the US v. Google search antitrust case and just how badly the court missed the opportunity to contend with Google’s power in the genAI market. genAI won’t magically unseat Google’s market dominance, as the court suggests, it will only deepen it

11.09.2025 15:43 — 👍 20    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0