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maybe we shouldn’t allow USA to decide European foreign policy? Just a thought.

Absolutely, although China can’t match Nvidia yet, they can now make chips that are good enough for 90% of the tasks.
Nvidia can no longer sell their second rate products developed specially for China anymore either.

Due to Western export restrictions, ASML is only allowed to export some of these machines to China; the most modern equipment is subject to a complete blockade.

In the past quarter, 14 percent of the machines that ASML sold went to China.

Play stupid games and win stupid prizes.

Preventing one of your biggest customers (China) from getting the equipment they need forces them to make it themselves.
Now China can make their own DUV lithography machines of similar quality to the ones they can get from ASML.
And obviously it won’t stop there, China will continue to improve, and probably in a few years compete with ASML on the high end EUV equipment too.

SpaceX, Tesla, Alphabet, Micron, Nvidia and Amazon all in red for July!?

IDK if the AI bubble is bursting now, but it seems like the hunger for AI heavy stock is cooling off.
I don’t think it will be too long before hardware prices return to normal, it could be within a year or two.

it is its own company,

No that was exactly the point, Xbox is NOT its own company, it is a division within Microsoft. Something you could have easily looked up before posting false information.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_(division)

formerly Microsoft Gaming, is the video game and digital entertainment division of Microsoft,

We still value the culture of physical media
But do we really?
IDK personally I haven’t used physical media for anything for literally 20 years now.
For almost a decade I didn’t really read books, but with big screen smartphones I’ve actually begun reading books again. 😀

I surely don’t miss any aspect of physical media, although I can see how it’s great for for instance swapping games.
On the other hand I can have as many books ready to read at any time on my phone as I want.
Most of my games are on Steam and GOG, and I find that way more convenient than having a wall of old discs to search if I want to play an older game.

physical media is still important, though digital distribution is “crucial”

Yes that’s what the headline should have reflected.

GamePass is killing Microsoft? I don’t think so. And Xbox is not a company. The company that own Xbox is Microsoft.

Not in EU, Eu has given fines to those big tech companies before and can do it again.

I absolutely agree that that agreement is complete and utter bullshit.
Hopefully the shift there has been to achieve IT independence from USA will mean EU doesn’t give in so easy next time.

they can also avoid sending proprietary data to systems controlled by outside providers.

Not only proprietary but also personal or other kinds of sensitive data.
If you are doing health research on databases of personal health data, you should be able to guarantee the safety of that data.
That means you can’t use the current American systems, because they’ve been shown to be insecure.
This would be a major issue in EU, where such data is legally protected.

It’s the chance of a life time, they will never get another chance of losing that much money again.

The Oracle credit rating is literally one step away from “Junk”!
So at least regarding Oracle, the finance world is onto them.

businessinsider.com/stock-market-orcl-ai-oracle-c…

Just a few days ago Oracle was reduced from BBB to BBB-.