Europe Turns Away From U. S. Tech

Europe is slowly swapping popular American tools for locally made options, starting with France’s shift from Zoom and Microsoft Teams to domestic software. Other nations are following the lead, eager to reduce reliance on U. S. platforms. SpaceX’s recent filing with U. S. regulators unveiled a sizable agreement: the company will rent powerful GPUs to an AI competitor, paying around $15 billion annually for access. This move highlights how intertwined the tech and space industries have become. In Britain, lawmakers warn that heavy dependence on Palantir’s data services poses a serious risk. A parliamentary committee described the company as an “unacceptable point of weakness, ” urging diversification. Meanwhile, OpenAI is reshuffling its leadership. Greg Brockman has taken charge of the company’s products as it works to merge ChatGPT and Codex into a single, streamlined experience.A new U. S. office that reportedly follows a European plan to remove minorities has been quietly established, raising concerns about oversight and transparency. The State Department is reluctant to discuss its operations. Other headlines show a world where technology can be both a tool and a threat. Meta has ended encrypted Instagram direct messages, while the Trump administration targets “violent left‑wing extremists. ” Russia is rumored to run a school for elite hackers, and Amazon workers have begun demanding regulations on data centers. Meanwhile, new web techniques allow sites to track hard‑drive activity through simple JavaScript, and a Google security engineer was charged with running a multi‑million‑dollar insider trading scheme on a prediction market platform.