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Justin Cale was still in high school when family problems pushed him out of his mother’s home and into a government-run group home for boys. A job at McDonald’s helped …
The ‘Gen Z stare’ is telling us something important about today’s economy Read More
Chinese tech giants are recruiting skilled professionals as specialized AI trainers to build high-quality data sets. Facing economic downturns and layoffs, professionals take these challenging annotation gigs as supplementary income. …
Now it’s China’s experts who are gig workers training AI Read More
The midterm elections are heating up, and AI has entered the race. More than 30 candidates running for office around the country have signed a new pledge promising to put …
The first AI election Read More
President Donald Trump had been hearing the message loud and clear for weeks about the sweeping cryptocurrency bill being written in the Senate: to get it across the line, he would have to …
Trump agreed to new ethics rules to get a crypto bill across the line. But that might not be enough Read More
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