The Finnish satellite company, valued at more than €10bn, becomes the first backing for a European Commission-backed fund set up to keep promising tech firms from being bought out or relocated abroad.
A decade ago, the Dead Internet Theory was a fringe conspiracy theory confined to the darker corners of the web. Now traffic figures, content-production statistics and AI research all point in the same direction. Bots are producing an ever-larger share of the web’s traffic and content, while human-written text is gradually becoming a scarce resource. The question is no longer whether the internet is changing, but what will be left of it.
