 Wow, 2023 is almost over. So time to survey the year in tech news and name the biggest stories. I don't know why we like to look back on the year and name the biggest stories because inevitably some big story breaks in January and we forget all about them. I don't know. Maybe that's why. Maybe we want one last chance to remember. Here are my top five biggest tech stories of 2023. So we can remember. Number five, Twitter becomes X. Love it or hate it, you can't deny people talk about it. I lost count of how many times people abandoned Twitter and or X only to see it continue to plod along. I can't imagine it will be as big of a story in 2024, right? Right? Coming into number four, Microsoft acquiring Activision Blizzard. The drama, the court cases, the revelations, the fact that the UK was the deciding factor and now Call of Duty and World of Warcraft are Microsoft properties. It only took years. Up to number three, the European Union's DSA and DMA. The Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act are the EU's attempt to reign in big tech and reigning them in, they are. Meta, Apple, Alphabet and Amazon have all contested various decisions that require them to modify their practices in order to assure an open playing field. This one's going to echo well into 2024. Sliding into number two, the Generative AI Wars. ChatGPT, Co-Pilot, Bard, Claude and more. When ChatGPT launched at the end of November 2022, I don't think anybody including anyone at OpenAI expected it to become the dominant story of 2023. Certainly they didn't expect it to cause panic at Google, but it did both of those things and has changed the way people think about work. But at number one, Sam Altman getting fired. I mean just skating in under the wire is OpenAI's board deciding to try to get rid of Sam Altman. Turns out, guy's pretty popular. And OpenAI's biggest partner Microsoft thinks he's pretty great as well as indispensable. It was definitely the Game of Thrones moment of the year. There were lots of other big stories in 2023. Don't get me wrong. What do you think was the biggest? Let us know. And if you want more great tech news and info, don't forget, you can subscribe to this channel. We got top fives like this one. We got Android Faithful. We've got The Daily Tech News Show. You can even get that as a podcast at DailyTechNewsShow.com. And if you like what we do, help us out on Patreon. Patreon.com slash DTNS. I'll see you there.