AI doesn’t understand the world yet, and the billion-dollar race to fix that shows…
AI doesn't understand anything yet.
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Africa’s $60B AI sovereignty plan still runs through 12,000 Nvidia GPUs and Big Tech
In April 2025, at the Kigali Summit, African leaders announced a $60 billion AI fund built around a paradox: the fastest path to AI sovereignty on the continent runs directly through thousands of Nvidia GPUs, Google Cloud credits, and Microsoft data centre partnerships.
Disinformation researchers are suing Marco Rubio — and the mechanism in the…
The fight over online safety research is no longer a fight about content moderation.
Why some non-English languages require far more AI tokens, and how Indian…
When Vivek Raghavan saw ChatGPT for the first time, he faced a choice that defines the AI era for most of the world's population.
The economic variable that may determine whether AI creates or destroys jobs — and…
The question everyone asks about AI and jobs is the wrong question.
SpaceX, Amazon, and Google want orbital data centers — four engineering barriers…
Three years ago, when I moved to Singapore for wealth accumulation and business scaling, I was struck by the sheer physical presence of the data infrastructure around me.
The $50 AI revolution: Why smaller models built for sovereignty may matter more…
The cost of building a frontier AI model has crossed significant financial thresholds in training compute alone, and the countries that cannot pay that price are not waiting around for charity.
A US government iPhone hacking tool has gone feral — and 42,000 devices are…
A sophisticated iPhone hacking toolkit called Coruna — likely developed by US government contractors — has proliferated from American intelligence through Russian espionage operations to cybercriminals, infecting an estimated 42,000 devices and exposing the structural contradictions of government-funded offensive cyber capabilities.
There’s a reason upward mobility feels impossible — the infrastructure that…
The feeling that upward mobility is impossible isn't a personal failing — it's a signal produced by layered systems of credentialing, housing, networks, and tax architecture designed to compound advantage for those who already have it.