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Artificial intelligence in practice — what it changes, who it concentrates power for, and how it lands in the businesses and policies of the technology economy.
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The four tech giants betting their futures on AI are doubling down: nearly three-quarters of a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending by 2026, but the payoff remains stubbornly unclear.
The architects of AI's most powerful systems face a humbling limitation: they cannot fully explain their own creations' reasoning, even when they understand every line of code.
The settlement freezes a pivotal moment in AI law: Anthropic avoids a jury trial while a controversial fair-use precedent survives unchallenged.
The gaming industry's AI reckoning isn't about replacing workers—it's about eliminating the rungs on the ladder that once led there.
The prevailing story about AI in a disaster zone is that it belongs to governments and large NGOs: satellite imagery pipelines at FEMA, damage models at the World Bank, logistics dashboards at the UN. When twin earthquakes reportedly ripped through northern Venezuela last month, that story broke.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have spent the past year trying to prove that enough capital can purchase a way out of a monopoly.
On Monday, 13 July, a coalition of economists, AI researchers and technology executives issued an unusually compressed warning about the economic consequences of increasingly capable artificial intelligence.
The useful reading of the MIT finding is not that generative AI has failed.
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Every time you type a question into a chatbot, the reply feels weightless.
As MIT Technology Review put it, "generating an image using a powerful AI model takes as much energy as fully charging your smartphone." That figure came from a single study and describes one particularly heavy model, not image generation in general but a striking comparison is it.
In one example from Shenzhen, a former product manager laid off from a major platform company is now running what she calls a business of one, using generative AI to write ad copy, design storefronts, and produce short-form video dramas from a repurposed industrial park where the rent is subsidised by the local government.
