Hacker News with Generative AI: Competition

Google and the Art of Weaponizing Privacy (vincentschmalbach.com)
Every time Google makes a "privacy" change, competitors mysteriously lose access to data while Google's own data empire grows stronger.

Google, Privacy, Competition, Data, Technology

7 points by vincent_s 10 days ago | 0 comments

Valve takes another step toward making SteamOS a true Windows competitor (arstechnica.com)
Valve continues to plan for a SteamOS future that goes beyond the Steam Deck.

Operating Systems, Gaming, Steam, Windows, Competition

148 points by austinallegro 14 days ago | 151 comments

Tesla's head of self-driving admits 'lagging a couple years' behind Waymo (electrek.co)
Tesla’s head of self-driving has admitted that the automaker’s autonomous program is lagging “a couple years” behind Waymo, but he believes the cost advantage will enable it to scale faster.

Self-Driving Cars, Tesla, Waymo, Technology, Competition

10 points by NullHypothesist 16 days ago | 2 comments

Huawei widens lead in global telecom race, Western giants retreat under pressure (digitimes.com)
As global telecom players across Europe, the US, Japan, and South Korea face mass layoffs and resource constraints, market contraction is accelerating. Meanwhile, Huawei is bucking the trend, expanding its R&D headcount and consolidating its lead...

Telecommunications, Huawei, Business, Competition, Technology

5 points by ksec 18 days ago | 0 comments

China's Effort to Build a Competitor to Starlink Is Off to a Bumpy Start (wired.com)
China has launched over 100 satellites for two broadband networks that could eventually rival the service from Elon Musk's SpaceX, but progress is hampered by launch bottlenecks and high failure rates.

Space Exploration, China, Satellite Technology, Competition, Broadband

6 points by 01-_- 18 days ago | 1 comments

Apple helped China become America's biggest tech rival (thetimes.com)

Apple, China, Technology, Competition, USA

5 points by walterbell 24 days ago | 0 comments

DeepSeek’s founder is threatening US dominance in AI race (bloomberg.com)
The company’s sudden emergence illustrates how China’s industry is thriving despite Washington’s efforts to slow it down.

Artificial Intelligence, China, Competition, Technology, Business

89 points by blumpy22 24 days ago | 77 comments

Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war (insideevs.com)

Software, Automotive, Competition, Business, Technology

468 points by rntn 27 days ago | 816 comments

Apple helped China become America's biggest tech rival (thetimes.com)

Apple, China, Technology, Competition, Economics

8 points by ksec 27 days ago | 2 comments

EU abandons ePrivacy reform to boost AI competitiveness (techcrunch.com)
A long-stalled bid to beef up European Union rules around online tracking technologies and put penalties on a similar footing to the bloc’s data protection framework, GDPR, has been withdrawn by the Commission after co-legislators failed to reach agreement over the plan.

EU, Data Privacy, AI, Regulations, Competition

9 points by bit_qntum 27 days ago | 0 comments

Apple is planning smart glasses with and without AR (theverge.com)
Apple has “made progress” on a chip for potential smart glasses that would be competitors to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, according to Bloomberg.

Apple, Smart Glasses, Augmented Reality, Wearable Technology, Competition

17 points by matthewsinclair 29 days ago | 8 comments

BYD Sealion 7 surpass Tesla Model Y to be Australia's best-selling electric car (drive.com.au)
With the Tesla Model Y soon to switch to a new model, it has allowed BYD to top the EV sales charts with its rivalling Sealion 7.

Electric Vehicles, Australia, Tesla, BYD, Competition

22 points by mnming 30 days ago | 4 comments

A new bill would force Apple to allow third-party app stores (theverge.com)
Representative Kat Cammack (R-FL) introduced a bill Tuesday that would require “large app store operators” like Apple to let users install third-party app stores and set them as their default.

Apple, App Stores, Legislation, Competition

5 points by redbell 31 days ago | 0 comments

Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever (tuta.com)
For over a decade, Google has dominated the online search market. With a global market share over 90%, Google had the power how billions of people search the web and access information. But now, for the first time since 2015, more than 1 out of 10 people use alternative search engines. Is this a first sign of the Google dominance coming to an end?

Search Engines, Google, Competition, Market Share, Trends

12 points by yagizdegirmenci 31 days ago | 1 comments

Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market (maxrozen.com)
When I played around with the technology that would eventually become OnlineOrNot back in 2021, a quick search showed me that there were 200 listed alternatives to the tool I wanted to replace. I thought most of them sucked.

SaaS, Business, Competition, Startups

268 points by mtlynch 31 days ago | 90 comments

Why Google is losing its iron grip on search, and what I use now instead (zdnet.com)
Google Search's market share is shrinking and it's not just because of AI.

Search Engines, Google, Technology, Competition, Alternatives

10 points by CrankyBear 32 days ago | 2 comments

BYD Keeps Delivering on Tesla's Unkept Promises (cleantechnica.com)

Electric Vehicles, Tesla, BYD, China, Competition

43 points by CharlesW 38 days ago | 6 comments

Google Search in Decline (tuta.com)
For over a decade, Google has dominated the online search market. With a global market share over 90%, Google had the power how billions of people search the web and access information. But now, for the first time since 2015, more than 1 out of 10 people use alternative search engines. Is this a first sign of the Google dominance coming to an end?

Google Search, Market Share, Competition, Search Engines

15 points by nichos 39 days ago | 1 comments

Chinese chipmakers are gaining on Nvidia and TSMC (restofworld.org)
Washington’s latest export restrictions on Nvidia’s H20 chips are likely to accelerate China’s shift toward domestic alternatives, as homegrown firms strive to close the gap with global rivals.

China, Semiconductors, Technology, Competition, Trade

12 points by donohoe 39 days ago | 2 comments

Amazon launches first Kuiper internet satellites in bid to take on Starlink (cnbc.com)

Space Exploration, Satellite Internet, Technology, Competition

58 points by pseudolus 39 days ago | 69 comments

All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding (medium.com)
Four major web browsers dominate the market: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple’s Safari. What most users don’t realize is that Google effectively bankrolls over 80% of the development for all of them. But this funding stream is under threat: the US Department of Justice is moving to force Google to cut off its competitors and divest from Chrome, a decision that will simultaneously cripple the development of every major browser.

Web Browsers, Google, Antitrust, Technology, Competition

639 points by dfabulich 39 days ago | 633 comments

Is It Worth Killing Mozilla to Shave Off Less Than 1% from Google's Market Share (open-web-advocacy.org)
Is It Worth Killing Mozilla to Shave Off Less Than 1% From Google’s Market Share?

Web Browsers, Google, Competition, Mozilla, Market Share

7 points by amadeuspagel 40 days ago | 3 comments

Anthropic sent takedown notice to dev trying to reverse-engineer its coding tool (techcrunch.com)
In the battle between two “agentic” coding tools — Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex CLI — the latter appears to be fostering more developer goodwill than the former.

Generative AI, Coding, Legal, Open Source, Competition

24 points by smusamashah 42 days ago | 10 comments

Oscilloscope Demo Scores the Win at Revision 2025 (hackaday.com)
Classic demos from the demoscene are all about showing off one’s technical prowess, with a common side order of a slick banging soundtrack. That’s precisely what [BUS ERROR Collective] members [DJ_Level_3] and [Marv1994] delivered with their prize-winning Primer demo this week.

Demoscene, Music, Software, Competition

22 points by beardyw 42 days ago | 1 comments

Google's side business is beating Tesla at its main business (sherwood.news)
Google-parent-owned Waymo is now doing more than a quarter of a million paid passenger trips in its driverless vehicles each week, the company said in its earnings report yesterday. That’s a 5x increase from a year ago and 50,000 more per week than it was doing just two months ago.

Self-Driving Cars, Google, Tesla, Competition

6 points by xnx 43 days ago | 2 comments

Jedi Blue (wikipedia.org)
Jedi Blue is an agreement between Alphabet and Meta Platforms that allegedly gave Facebook an illegal advantage in Google's ad auctions in exchange for Facebook's word that it would end its own ad service plans.

Antitrust, Competition, Google, Facebook, Advertising

7 points by ColinWright 44 days ago | 0 comments

AMD 2.0 – New Sense of Urgency (semianalysis.com)
Ever since SemiAnalysis published an article in December 2024 detailing mediocre AMD software and the lack of usability, AMD has kicked into a higher gear and has made rapid progress in the past four months on many items we laid out. We view AMD’s new sense of urgency as a massive positive in its journey to catch up to Nvidia. AMD is now in a wartime stance, but there are still many battles ahead of it.

AMD, Semiconductors, Software, Competition, Business

30 points by AbuAssar 44 days ago | 0 comments

AMD 2.0 – New Sense of Urgency, MI450X Chance to Beat Nvidia, Nvidia's New Moat (semianalysis.com)
Ever since SemiAnalysis published an article in December 2024 detailing mediocre AMD software and the lack of usability, AMD has kicked into a higher gear and has made rapid progress in the past four months on many items we laid out.

AMD, Nvidia, Semiconductors, Software, Competition

7 points by elorant 45 days ago | 0 comments

Break Google's Search Monopoly Without Breaking the Web (open-web-advocacy.org)
In late 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), in conjunction with state attorneys general representing 11 states, brought a landmark antitrust case against Google for unlawfully maintaining a monopoly in the general search engine market.

Antitrust, Google, Search Engines, Competition, Law

4 points by brycewray 45 days ago | 0 comments

Why the FTC vs. Meta Trial Matters: Competition Gaps and Civil Liberties (eff.org)
We’re in the midst of a long-overdue resurgence in antitrust litigation. In the past 12 months alone, there have been three landmark rulings against Google/Alphabet (in search, advertising, and payments). Then there’s the long-running FTC v. Meta case, which went to trial last week. Plenty of people are cheering these cases on, seeing them as a victories over the tech broligarchy (who doesn’t love to see a broligarch get their comeuppance?).

Antitrust, Competition, Privacy, Technology, Law

5 points by hn_acker 46 days ago | 1 comments