Daniel Ollé

Over 10,000 hotels join complaint against Booking, a
suit to be brought before an Amsterdam court share.google/2GJyc4HxO04k...

Yellow background with orange border. OpenAI logo top center, "OpenAI's GPT OSS" bottom center. Left side in smaller writing says "From the makers of ChatGPT...A new model is released". On the right and left side are spikey orange announcement banners, reading "Now Open Source!" "Available on Hugging Face! <logo>" url given in bottom right corner is hf.co/openai/gpt-oss-120b

🤖 ICYMI: Yesterday, @hf.co and OpenAI partnered to bring open source GPT to the public. This is a Big Deal in "AI world". Allow me to explain why. 🧵
huggingface.co/openai/gpt-o...

Groundbreaking news for European Tech autonomy: European Search Engines Qwant and Ecosia launch a joint Search Index.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/qwant-and-ecosia-debut-staan-a-european-search-index-that-aims-to-take-on-big-tech/

What’ll happen if we spend nearly $3tn on data centres no one needs? Nineties adults remember

“Calling back to the tech boom of the mid-to-late 90s, investors have been asking about the possibility that this investment cycle for data centres could be a bubble”

Huge props to the person who created this graphic for FT lmao

Spain's largest fiberco and one of the largest in the continent; Italy's Openfiber (owned by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti & Macquarie) is also a candidate

Naver to fully acquire Spain's Wallapop in global push for social commerce | Yonhap News Agency SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korean internet giant Naver Corp. said Tuesday it has deci...

Korea's Naver acquires remaining stake in Spain's Wallapop en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...

80 years since Hiroshima, the world must never forget the horror unleashed by nuclear weapons.

Humanity bears the scars to this day.

Today, we honour the memory of the victims and reaffirm our unwavering commitment to peace, disarmament, and a world free of nuclear weapons.

Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles “The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”

Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles

🔗 www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...

MasOrange, Vodafone Spain and GIC join forces to create Spain’s largest fibre optic company | GIC Newsroom Step forward by MasOrange and Vodafone to ensure Spain has the most advanced telecom infrastructure in Europe. Customers from both operators will be able to use this FTTH (fibre-to-the-home) network. ...

Singapore’s sovereign fund to invest in Orange&Zegona fiberco in Spain "approximately 12 million premises and 5 million customers"
www.gic.com.sg/newsroom/all...

"Perplexity uses not only their declared user-agent, but also a generic browser intended to impersonate Google Chrome on macOS when their declared crawler was blocked"

"We conducted an experiment by querying Perplexity AI with questions about these domains, and discovered Perplexity was still providing detailed information regarding the exact content hosted[...]we had taken all necessary precautions to prevent this data from being retrievable by their crawlers"

AI and Fraternity, Abeba Birhane, AI Accountability Lab I envision a future where human dignity, justice, peace, kindness, care, respect, accountability, and rights and freedoms serve as the north stars that guide AI development and use. Realising these ideals can’t happen without intentional tireless work, dialogues, and confrontations of ugly realities – even if they are uncomfortable to deal with. This starts with deciphering hype from reality. Pervasive narratives portray AI as a magical, fully autonomous entity approaching a God-like omnipotence and omniscience. In reality, audits of AI systems reveal a consistent failure to deliver on grandiose promises and suffer from all kinds of shortcomings, issues often swept under the rug. AI in general, and GenAI in particular, encodes and exacerbates historical stereotypes, entrenches harmful societal norms, and amplifies injustice. A robust body of evidence demonstrates that — from hiring, welfare allocation, medical care allocation to anything in between — deployment of AI is widening inequity, disproportionately impacting people at the margins of society and concentrating power and influence in the hands of few. Major actors—including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI—have willingly aligned with authoritarian regimes and proactively abandoned their pledges to fact-check, prevent misinformation, respect diversity and equity, refrain from using AI for weapons development, while retaliating against critique. The aforementioned vision can’t and won’t happen without confrontation of these uncomfortable facts. This is precisely why we need active resistance and refusal of unreliable and harmful AI systems; clearly laid out regulation and enforcement; and shepherding of the AI industry towards transparency and accountability of responsible bodies. "Machine agency" must be in service of human agency and empowerment, a coexistence that isn't a continuation of modern tech corporations’ inequality-widening,

so I am one of the 12 people (including the “god-fathers of AI”) that will be at the Vatican this September for a two full-day working group on the Future of AI

here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group

Singapore’s GIC takes 25% stake in Spanish broadband venture Telecoms operators MasOrange and Vodafone Spain had anticipated selling a larger stake to an external investor

Singapore’s sovereign fund takes 25% stake in MasOrange and Zegona's FTTH Netco in Spain on.ft.com/450Vg4Z

Sarvam AI launches India's sovereign LLM 'Sarvam-M', claims edge over LLaMA-3, Gemma 3 on key benchmarks Sarvam AI unveils Sarvam-M, a sovereign LLM designed to excel in Indian languages, math, and programming. Built on Mistral Small, Sarvam-M shows impressive performance gains, especially in code-mixed ...

Spain, Poland, Switzerland... and also India's government multilingual LLM model www.fortuneindia.com/technology/s...

Inside the relentless race for AI capacity The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed

FT on the new data centres: "building the facilities required[...]while also supporting billions of people using sophisticated AI models is far more complex, costly and energy-guzzling than the power grids, telecoms networks or even cloud computing systems that came before"
ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

Subscribe to read Olivier Guersent is stepping down after five years leading the bloc’s powerful competition department

‘“In a market economy, it is foolish to believe that you will be more competitive with less competition. You have 200 years of economic evidence that tell you the opposite,” said Guersent, a Frenchman who spent decades shaping European antitrust policy.’ on.ft.com/4mr0w82

Après la femtocell, #Free annonce maintenant l’arrêt de son service WiFi public #FreeWifi au 1er octobre, dans un contexte d’évolution des usages et de débits et quantités de données élevés offerts sur les réseaux mobiles. Une nouvelle page qui se tourne.
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A language model built for the public good ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM ma...

Work on open LLM also in Switzerland (as in Spain and Poland) "In late summer 2025, a publicly developed large language model (LLM) will be released — co-created by researchers at EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS)"
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Mistral targets $10bn valuation in new fundraising push

Ericsson reportedly in talks to invest in Intel's networking spin-off Ericsson is in talks with Intel to invest in its networking infrastructure business, a move that would give it a minority stake in Intel’s planned standalone networking unit.

Ericsson reportedly in talks to invest in Intel's networking spin-off "could help secure long-term access to Intel silicon, which underpins much of the company’s virtualized and cloud-native infrastructure"
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DMA in practice

"Installing marketplaces from the web" - updated user experience developer.apple.com/support/alt-... #DMA

‘“In a market economy, it is foolish to believe that you will be more competitive with less competition. You have 200 years of economic evidence that tell you the opposite,” said Guersent, a Frenchman who spent decades shaping European antitrust policy.’ https://on.ft.com/4mr0w82

To combat fraud, according to Ministerial regulations CNMC is getting ready a Registry of alphanumeric identifiers to be used in Application-to-Person SMS. This is a public consultation on how we should do it. Open until 30th September.

#Free arrête définitivement son service femtocell au 1er septembre, qui permettait d’améliorer la couverture mobile #3G à l’intérieur des logements. Une décision logique dans un contexte mondial de fermeture des réseaux 3G chez la majorité des opérateurs.
www.busyspider.fr/Actu/news_25...

Press Release by the European Commission: Commission preliminarily finds Temu in breach of the Digital Service Act in relation to illegal products on its platform.

4,17 Milliarden (ja, Milliarden!) Dumping-Sendungen aus China! So viele Pakete kamen 2024 durch TEMU, SHEIN und zuletzt TikTok Shop in die EU. Neben der fraglichen Qualität umgehen die chinesischen Konzerne auch gezielt europäische Umwelt-, Verbraucher- und Sicherheitsstandards.

What to Expect When You’re Expecting … GPT-5 7 predictions that might sound familiar

Gary Marcus' GPT-5 predictions
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We will sign the EU AI Code of Practice. We will join several other companies, including U.S. model providers, in signing the European Union’s General Purpose AI Code of Practice. We do so with the hope that th…

This is a wise move for Google showing that innovation and responsible practices are not in conflict.
blog.google/around-the-g...

YouTube most popular first TV destination for children, Ofcom finds One in five young viewers go to platform first when they turn on TV, as older people also watch more of its content

YouTube most popular first TV destination for British children
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

UK public service TV ‘endangered’ in YouTube era, says Ofcom Regulator calls for legislation to make news and UK-focused shows easier to find on online video-sharing platforms

UK public service TV ‘endangered’ in YouTube era, says Ofcom
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...