ll this decade, all over the world, countries have taken up arms against concentrated corporate power. We've had big, muscular antitrust attacks on big corporations in the US (under Trump I and Biden); in Canada; in the UK; in the EU and member states like Germany, France and Spain; in Australia; in Japan and South Korea and Singapore; in Brazil; and in China. This is a near-miraculous turn of affairs. All over the world, governments are declaring war on monopolies, the source of billionaires' wealth and powe

While Brussels focuses on regulating consumer-facing services, the underlying infrastructure has been handed over entirely. "What Europeans don't realize is that while they regulate e-commerce and app stores, the digital infrastructure on which everything rests is now owned by non-Europeans," she says.

For Cristina Caffarra, founder of the Eurostack Foundation and a competition economist, Europe's predicament is both alarming and self-inflicted. She estimates that 90 percent of Europe's digital infrastructure (cloud, compute, and software) is now controlled by non-European, predominantly American, companies.

It was still a remarkable moment. Who knew an open weight model release could have that kind of impact?

NVIDIA lost ~$593bn in market cap as investors panicked that AI maybe wasn’t an American monopoly after all.

Nel mio libro, questo conduce a costruire un progetto di liberazione dal dominio delle mega-piattaforme attuali e suggerisce la possibilità di costruire molte piattaforme alternative a quelle gigantesche e sfruttatrici che attualmente costituiscono il sistema dei media. Nel libro di Ferraris, questo conduce a una proposta di redistribuzione del valore dei dati, in funzione di un progetto politico che porti a un nuovo, moderno, sistemico e pragmatico comunismo.