by Raphael Dudler | Jun 10, 2026 | gafam watch
The acronym that defined Big Tech for a decade is being replaced. Industry executives and observers are adopting “MANGO” — Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI — to describe the dominant players of the AI era. Apple has been dropped. Amazon and Microsoft have been sidelined. And Apple placed near the bottom of the Wall Street Journal’s AI readiness ranking, trailing Nvidia, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon. The intelligence era has new power centres. gafam.ai examines what this means — and why the publication named after the old acronym is perfectly positioned to cover the new one.
by Raphael Dudler | Jun 9, 2026 | apple ai
Apple WWDC 2026 is confirmed. Siri AI — rebuilt from scratch, powered by Google’s Gemini Foundation Models on Cloud, living inside Dynamic Island — is real. iOS 27 introduces Liquid Glass design and new child safety controls. macOS Golden Gate is confirmed. Tim Cook wiped a tear on stage — his final WWDC as CEO. John Ternus takes over September 1. gafam.ai’s complete European analysis of the night Apple finally answered its AI critics.
by Raphael Dudler | Jun 8, 2026 | gafam watch
On June 5, 2026, President Trump said the US government may take direct equity stakes in leading AI companies — naming OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI. Bernie Sanders wants 50% plus a 50% stock tax. Sam Altman pitched the idea to Trump in 2025 and has been advancing it since. Anthropic refused — and is not in the conversation. The strangest political convergence of 2026: the populist right, the democratic left and the CEO of OpenAI all agree that AI profits are too large to stay entirely private. gafam.ai’s European analysis of the AI governance story nobody saw coming.
by Raphael Dudler | Jun 5, 2026 | gafam watch
Demis Hassabis — CEO of Google DeepMind, the most important AI research organisation in the world — broke publicly with the industry consensus this week. In a rare direct statement, Hassabis said AI productivity gains should benefit workers rather than simply being captured by shareholders through headcount reduction. From inside Google — the company that just announced Gemini Spark and AI Mode at 1 billion users — this is the most consequential internal dissent in the AI era.
by Raphael Dudler | Jun 5, 2026 | google ai
Google AI Mode — the AI-powered search experience that has already reduced click-through rates to publishers by up to 61% — surpassed 1 billion monthly users this week. The same week, a security researcher disclosed that Gemini API keys remain fully active and usable after explicit deletion — a design flaw with significant enterprise security implications. And European consumer group BEUC filed Digital Services Act complaints against Google, Meta and TikTok over financial scam ads. Three Google stories. One European perspective. gafam.ai.
