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  • Really not sure what they actually launched the antitrust probe for; this is just pure political drama lol Edit: Okay, it is possibly because of Android dominance, but again, still a political drama

    It's not political drama, they were happy to look the other way when there was a quid pro quo. There isn't one anymore so they enforce their own laws. It's 2025 not 1825, we're not right just because we speak English. Although I'm sure a non insignificant portion of the US executive would be more than happy to blockade Beijing and make it rain artillery fire.

    The US was also happy to look the other way when Uyghur slaves were manufacturing components for Apple. It's just normal geopolitics.

  • Virtually any smartphone manufacturer in China apart from Huawei and Apple pay licensing fees to Google. Sounds very monopoly when tens of manufacturers pay licensing fees to the same company. Right or wrong motivation there's a compelling case unless one hits the great mental firewall of "China bad".

  • Are you really not sure? Say what you will about China, but let's shelf that for a minute. Much like meta, google is an ever spreading cancer that tries to insert itself into every person's life and has unlawfully used their trust position to do so everywhere in the world. Regardless of Chinese motivations, odds are google has violated anti-trust there too.

  • They're still around because we let them in. Clinton & Bush fucked the EU by expanding NATO East to make sure the block would never have peace with a cheap energy provider. Now we pay 4x more for American hydrocarbons that would otherwise be unprofitable...

    Let this sink in, the replacement to Borrell is a Russia Hawk who's biggest accomplishment is to lead a country that barely passes the size of a medium city in western Europe. And yet, there she is, leading our foreign policy and creating enemies on behalf of all of the EU while protecting the interests of foreign actors and a domestic tax haven... We did not vote for her (or Borrell for that matter).

    The propaganda machine is soo good people look at real war as if it were a Hollywood film rather than our children being slaughtered so somewhere in the world line goes up for some greedy fuck. Neither Ucranian families nor Russian benefit from this war but the Americans are making bank, as usual.

  • It's already being done. Both mistal and Fraunhofer have released models for language (and vision I think) that are already being used extensively in research. One of Fraunhofer's in particular is one of the best multilingual tool I've seen and I won't be surprised when it's adopted by the EU institutionally (that is if Microsoft doesn't go on a bribe lobbying run again to stop that from happening)