Just in case anyone is wondering: I live in Paris; if I didn’t have X dot com I would have no idea there are riots in France.

We gave you C++. We gave you DHH, RoR and Omarchy. We gave you C#, PHP and TypeScript. Friggin’ Bluetooth. It’s. All. Danish. 🇩🇰 Now tell me again how technologically irrelevant Europe is. I’ll wait. What did you even ship??!

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg) says AI model companies have “zero loyalty” & parts of the AI boom look like the worst parts of the crypto boom: “There's all kinds of crazy things going on with AI, including people inventing token volumes. There's a lot of free promos. There's a lot of fake ZDR.” “If I was one of these companies, I would ask, ‘What percentage of my users are here just because I gave them free subsidies on a plan?’”

Europe’s founders need a European standard to compete globally from day one. Europe’s leaders committed to delivering one. But their teams are negotiating away the very things that make it one. There is still time to change course if Europe's Heads of State step in now.

Rather than using 5% of some big honking package like Microsoft Office or Adobe Creative Suite, you'll probably soon just ask your agent for the 5% you actually use. Bespoke software.

T-Mobile spent five years trying to get rid of the exact spectrum Elon just called "the last critical piece" of complete phone coverage in America. This 800 MHz block is Sprint's old Nextel spectrum, the stuff that powered push-to-talk walkie-talkie phones in 2004. The DOJ forced T-Mobile to divest it as a condition of the $26 billion Sprint merger. Dish had first rights at $3.59 billion and walked away because it couldn't raise the money. T-Mobile finally offloaded it to an investment firm called Grain Management last year for $2.9 billion plus a spectrum swap. Grain's original plan was selling it to utilities for private networks. Fourteen months later, SpaceX buys the whole portfolio, and shares of the carriers who passed on it fall as much as 8% in a single afternoon. Here's why it matters so much. Starlink's satellite signal at 2 GHz can reach your phone outdoors, but it dies at the first wall. 800 MHz penetrates buildings. Most phones already have the band built in. So satellites handle the open sky, this low-band layer handles indoors, and suddenly Starlink Mobile covers everywhere a normal carrier does without the tower network. Stack the moves. $17 billion for EchoStar's 50 MHz of 2 GHz spectrum. FCC approval for 15,000 Gen2 satellites this week. Now the low-band coverage layer. Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile paid $81 billion in a single auction for C-band spectrum in 2021, then spent years and tens of billions more deploying it on towers. SpaceX assembled a nationwide carrier out of a distressed-asset sale, a forced divestiture castoff, and rockets it already owns. The walkie-talkie spectrum from 2004 ended up being the piece that lets satellites replace cell towers. Nobody who touched it for twenty years saw that coming.