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Meta is putting its smart glasses features behind a subscription paywall, and it marks a meaningful shift in how consumer hardware gets sold. You buy the device, but the most capable version of it lives behind a monthly fee. It's a model we've seen in software for years, now migrating firmly into physical products.
Across the Atlantic, Google has lost its final appeal against a four point seven billion dollar antitrust fine from the European Union, originally handed down back in two thousand eighteen. The case centered on Google forcing Android device makers to pre-install its search and browser apps. After years of legal maneuvering, Europe's highest court has made it official — the fine stands.
And Cloudflare is giving website owners new tools to control how artificial intelligence systems interact with their content. The company is framing it as a kind of independence for site operators, letting them decide whether AI crawlers can access their pages at all. As AI training pipelines grow hungrier, that kind of control is becoming genuinely valuable real estate.
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