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For an industry that we’re told is central to our collective future, the artificial intelligence (AI) industry increasingly seems to be built on a combination of artificially inflated hopes and …
Wall Street Is Getting Very Nervous About AI Read More
If supremacy in artificial intelligence was an Olympic discipline, there would only be two serious contenders for gold on current trajectories: the US and China. The European Union, as has been the …
EU pushes homegrown AI agenda as US, China retain lead Read More
Far-right populists worldwide are using AI to bypass traditional media gatekeepers and spread disinformation at scale. Nowhere is that more true than Brazil, which has been rocked by political disinformation …
‘Digital Armies’ and Disinformation: How Big Tech Is Hitting Brazil’s Upcoming Election Read More
Incidents of AI misuse and malfunction are growing across Africa. Companies are piloting American and Chinese AI systems, with little consideration for safety. Frontier models should undergo Africa-centric safety evaluations, …
Who gets to decide if AI is safe? Africa wants a say Read More
BRUSSELS — Amid fears that AI models could destroy humanity, top European tech leaders and cybersecurity experts have an increasingly loud response: Ignore the hype, and get on with the …
Don’t believe the doomers: Europe’s tech industry slams AI panic 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
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
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
Recent evidence for the US finds that higher AI job postings reduce municipal bond yields, particularly for longer-maturity and lower-rated bonds. This column shows that in five non-US OECD countries, …
When AI meets local debt Read More