Europe’s greatest AI potential isn’t in ethics regulation. Europe should become the world’s pre-eminent training ground for the machines China and the US are racing to build.

The EU is racing ahead on privacy, AI, and competition rules for digital players. Developers in the EU and US will be the first to fall if the two sides go it alone.

89% of developers agree that Java would not be as commonly used today if it had not been free for re-use from the start.

Developers are highly concerned if the long-held understanding about the re-use of APIs is upended by a court order, a new survey conducted by the Developers Alliance shows.

The lawsuit between Google and Oracle is the gift that keeps giving. The two companies have been battling over the Java/Android APIs since 2012. We’ve now come to the point where the U.S. Supreme Court (aka SCOTUS) is the only place where things can be settled.

I’ve written before about policy makers and their growing obsession with reigning in the big tech companies. I understand where this impulse comes from. The tech sector is too important to ignore, but it is also too valuable to break.