“The Swedish government wants to strengthen ties with US tech giants, despite the Trump administration’s potential influence over these companies. This is according to Minister for Public Administration Erik Slottner (KD) in Ny Teknik. “What is happening in the US is rather proof that we need to have a strong relationship with these tech companies – perhaps even stronger than we have today. Europe is an important market for them, and they are very keen to have a good relationship with us.” He mentions Google, for example, as a partner he wants to continue to have on his digitalization council.”

Translated with DeepL (https://dee.pl/apps)

  • Szewek@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    28·
    2 days ago

    One more out of many, many reasons to vote Tidöavtalet out in September…

  • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
    211·
    2 days ago

    Context for those not keeping up with Sweden: It’s run by idiots at the moment, as the billionaire coalition did really well at the previous election.

    This guy is a Christan Democrat (KD). His party is in government alongside the “Moderates” and the “Liberals”, which is both liberal conservative parties running on platforms of economic liberalism and lower taxes. They’re in power because of the Swedish Democrats, aka the right wing lunatics, who rode on a wave of xenophobia last election and gained more than 20% of the vote.

    So yeah, nothing surprising about this.

    The next election in Sweden is in September. Hopefully things will improve then. The Swedish Democrats are still polling at over 20% and it is not looking particularly promising at the moment.

    • Lumisal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Geez and thought we had it bad in Finland with Orpo’s government…

      At least Finns don’t seem likely to elect the right wing parties again here

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      2 days ago

      Social Democrats being the largest party by vote but still not in majority when it comes to ruling because of alliances between idiot parties. Pretty sad.

  • mumblerfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    Why does the title of the source imoly the opposite, that they are looking to lower the dependency on cloud services.

    But that is not the title of the article, and the omni summary appears correct. Very strange

    • mko@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I have the feeling Omni is increasing their use of LLM’s for their summarizations. Expect more incoming slop.

    • mko@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I got curious and got the original article at NyTeknik. It is mostly about investments into AI, but very little substantial in the article. The article is a result of an interview.

      The government wants to keep a closer dialog with the hyperscalers, but have escalated their stand on digital sovereignty a step up from ”Huh? That’s theoretical” on being hit by digital sanctions to ”taking a serious look” post Greenland.

  • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Fucking techbro idiots. 100% that these people are corrupt and sold out. They need to be fired and considered a national security threat.

  • mko@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    In regards to this party or that in government, I am pretty sure it doesn’t matter. They are all pretty much tech illiterate and are inclined to listen to what the large corps tend to recommend.