🚫 EU Orders TikTok to Kill Infinite Scroll

Plus, Musk Wants AI Servers in Orbit

February 06, 2026

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Breaking News: The EU says TikTok’s endless scrolling, autoplay videos, and algorithm are built to keep users hooked — and this could be harmful, especially for children.

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📢 Today's Headline:

  • EU Says TikTok Design Is Too Addictive!

  • Google Tops $400B & Doubles Down on AI!

  • SpaceX Plans Orbital AI Data Centers!

  • Reddit’s Big Bet: AI-Powered Search!

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The European Commission just declared TikTok's core features "addictive by design" and is forcing the company to rebuild from scratch.

  • The big demand: Disable infinite scroll, turn off autoplay, kill push notifications, and completely redesign the recommendation engine that puts users on "autopilot mode"

  • The evidence: EU says TikTok ignored clear signs of compulsive use like late-night scrolling and obsessive app-opening, despite knowing it was rewiring users' brains

  • The stakes: This isn't a slap on the wrist. Confirmed violations could cost TikTok up to 6% of global revenue under the Digital Services Act

The EU specifically called out how TikTok's current screen time tools are "easy to dismiss" and basically useless. TikTok fired back calling the findings "categorically false" and promising to fight this everywhere they can.

⚠️ Why this matters: If the EU wins, every social platform will be watching. This could force the entire industry to kill the dopamine-optimization playbook that's been printing money for a decade. Australia already banned under-16s completely. The regulatory avalanche is here.

For builders: If you're designing anything with a feed, start thinking about friction now. "Engaging" and "exploitative" are about to get legally defined, and the difference might kill your growth model.

Alphabet crushed earnings, then immediately spooked investors with a capex plan so massive it reads like nation-state infrastructure spending.

  • The shock number: Google will spend up to $185 billion in 2026 on AI infrastructure, roughly double what it spent in 2025 and $65 billion more than Wall Street expected. That's not a typo.

  • The proof it's working: Cloud revenue exploded 48% to $17.7 billion with operating margins hitting 30%, while Gemini app crossed 750 million monthly users and cut serving costs by 78% through efficiency gains

  • The identity shift: Google beat on every metric (revenue up 18%, EPS up 31%, Search still printing money) but chose to spotlight infrastructure spending over profitability, signaling it's becoming a physical buildout company, not just a software one

This is part of Big Tech's collective $500 billion AI spending spree in 2026. The stock initially dropped 5%, recovered, then wobbled as investors tried to process whether this aggressive bet will pay off or crater margins.

👀 Why this actually matters: Google just made the clearest statement yet that the AI race isn't about clever algorithms anymore. It's about who can afford to build the most compute infrastructure the fastest. Search keeps working, Cloud is profitable, but Google is explicitly choosing expansion over margin optimization.

Musk claims orbital data centers will be cheaper than Earth-based ones in 30 months, and he's already merged SpaceX with xAI to make it happen.

  • The audacious timeline: Musk predicts that by 2028, space will be the "most economically compelling place" to run AI, and by 2031, more AI compute will launch annually than exists on Earth today (context: that's over a trillion dollars of infrastructure)

  • The shaky math: His pitch is that solar panels produce 5x more power in space, so data centers are cheaper there. Except power isn't the only cost, launch isn't free, and you can't exactly send a technician to swap out a failed GPU at 340 miles up

  • The regulatory fast track: FCC chair Brendan Carr personally shared the million-satellite filing on X, signaling this will sail through approval as long as Musk stays in Trump's good graces

This isn't just talk anymore. SpaceX formally merged with xAI on Monday, the FCC accepted the filing Wednesday, and Musk laid out the full vision on a podcast with Patrick Collison. The combined entity is headed for an IPO in months.

⚠️ Why this is wild: This is either visionary infrastructure planning or the most expensive way to dodge Earth-based data center regulations and energy costs.

Musk is essentially betting that launch costs will drop faster than terrestrial power gets cheaper, and that GPU reliability in orbit beats building another Texas data farm.

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