Correct me if I'm wrong, but contract has nothing to do with web searches. It was about training AIs, a data-licensing deal.
I learned more here, OpenAI themselves changed how the web search works; https://www.forbes.com/sites/gabrielalinzainescu/2026/08/20/reddit-nearly-vanishes-from-chatgpt-citations-after-openai-search-change/
Wealthy, sophisticated LLM developers would not have been scraping old reddit. They would pay reddit for API access.
Shutting down old reddit closes the door on back yard developers, not OpenAI.
And yet it did. And yet reddit mentioned shutting down API too
They actually did use old reddit, as confirmed by reddit itself, as confirmed by massive drop after the change. It was simply far easier to scrape old reddit (pre-rendered instead of relying on JavaScript and dynamic content load)
The drop correlates with the time reddit locked down old reddit from accessing anonymously/without logging in to avoid AI scraping. Reddit themselves did this.
EDOT: And OpenAI also changed how the web search works; https://www.forbes.com/sites/gabrielalinzainescu/2026/08/20/reddit-nearly-vanishes-from-chatgpt-citations-after-openai-search-change/
If you think denying technology to China because they work with Russia is a proportional response
It's not about proportional response, it's about what we can do. We can't do alot, but we could at least not share critical technology.
I'm not sure why are you comparing Russia to US. The CIA has never officially planned or executed a successful coup in Europe. If you want us to get hostile towards any country who has done something to another country (outside EU), we'd have only enemies.
It's a lot more simple to just follow the logic of Principles and pushing back on those commiting wars of aggression and genocide
Again. If we'd get involved into every conflict, we'd likely have no friends, but only enemies. Which war is more important for Europe? Why would we shift focus to middle east? Europe is already pretty much hostile towards Israel and not on good terms with US (Spain just signed some mining deal with Iran), but why are we even talking about those two conflicts? There are currently 25+ active conflicts. Why not a single word about Thailand and Cambodia, or all those African conflicts, or Iran, or Afghanistan, or Sudan, or etc.. Either you're a hypocrite and care about specific conflict only, or you want EU to basically sacrifice itself by getting involved into every conflict (which would borderline lead to isolationism).
What do you think Americans would do with Russo-Ukrainian war if we sent assist or even weapons to Palestine (same old "what can we even do?")? Same with getting involved into Asia (Thailand). Let's just not, we have our own war.
Well, by that logic, I as an EU citizen shouldn't give a shit, since Russia hasn't attacked the EU
Are you being for real right now? They have attacked several EU countries. Literally even assassinated people on foreign soils. Somewhat recently they launched drone attack on my country (Latvia) and blew up fuel storage. It is also a known fact that China trained Russian troops that were sent into European country.
Even better, as a Portuguese and thus as far from Russia as possible whilst still being in Europe, by your "self interest" motivation I shouldn't give a shit about Russia even if they invaded Eastern European EU countries.
Are you being for real right now? EU is a union of states/countries, like US or Soviets were. Middle East is not part of that union. So if someone attacks Portugal, it would be fine for the rest of EU to ignore it just because people don't want to get involved into middle east? Please, stop. You're borderline copying Russian anti-EU sentiment and disinfo.
https://www.plataformamedia.com/en/2026/04/14/portugal-china-and-russia-as-main-threats-to-internal-security/ - guess who did they not name? Middle eastern countries.
We should apply the same punishment to countries that directly threaten and invade Europe versus countries that aren't even close to Europe and are no threat? Do you want EU to become the next world police like US and get involved into all global conflicts? Maybe we should learn a thing or two from US and stay the fuck away from middle east.
Did he pay a fee to the king and visit his inauguration like Zucker?
So your logic is "Give China everything they ask otherwise they will make their own and outcompete you"?
You know, that sounds awfully close to what Russians constantly say, but replace make with take
As an European, I very much prefer not giving Russia's ally important technology.
The facility — which will be built and owned by SoftBank
Not the company I expected to build data-centers
After seeing the leaks, I can now understand the panic. This can result in a lot of hype going away and cancelled pre-orders due to the fact that it just looks like another GTA game and not some miracle that many tried to portray.
Probably a reason they started pre-orders before showing gameplay.
Manage your expectations people.