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A little-known US-based developer tied to a failed bitcoin business and a fraudulent-transfer lawsuit is quietly advancing Alberta’s latest gas-fired AI data centre proposal. The 466MW Black Bear Power Project …
U.S. Developer Tied to Failed Bitcoin Venture Is Proposing Major Alberta Data Centre Read More
Marginalized communities and creators are forming data cooperatives to claw back control from Big Tech’s scraping practices. These grassroots collectives ensure that local communities — not Silicon Valley — dictate …
Fed up with Big Tech, communities turn to data collectives for control Read More
Involution — neijuan (内卷) in Mandarin, literally “inward curling” — entered everyday Chinese speech around 2020. The concept was borrowed from the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz, who described a pattern in colonial …
China’s AI boom is creating a different kind of entrepreneur Read More
Super PACs funded by AIPAC and major big tech donors have poured roughly $2 million behind Rep. Diana DeGette on the eve of her contentious primary in Colorado’s first congressional …
AIPAC, Big Tech Back Diana DeGette Over Melat Kiros With $2M Spending Flood Read More
Rupert Read argues that climate breakdown is no longer an abstract danger parked safely in the future. Talking to The Mint, he warns of clear and present danger with artificial …
The white heat of technology 2026 Read More
Cliff Mills and Simon Grove-White on why cooperation is the way forward in public services. Andy Burnham’s speech at the People’s History Museum has thrown down the gauntlet to rethink …
All together now Read More
This month, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, unveiled a set of sweeping recommendations to rein in rampant data center development, urging Texas lawmakers to aggressively …
America’s data center backlash is bipartisan — can it stay that way? Read More
Silicon Valley executives and global policymakers are scratching their heads at US President Donald Trump’s latest crackdown on Anthropic, the artificial intelligence (AI) company behind the powerful Claude models. Just days after the release of its most …
US curbs Anthropic AI access, raising global concerns Read More
Far-right AI war firm Palantir has won yet another UK contract. This time the genocide-linked company’s software will manage guns, explosives, and even poisons held by the British state. The …
Palantir wins contract to manage UK’s guns, explosives, and poisons Read More
Taipei, Taiwan – For Li, an engineer at Taiwanese computer giant ASUS, the AI boom sweeping Taiwan has made it an exciting time to work in tech. Taiwan is a semiconductor powerhouse, …
Taiwan’s economy is booming thanks to AI. Not everyone sees the benefits Read More