When tech billionaires give, who decides what counts as public good?
Tech fortunes are starting to write social policy with startup logic, turning giving into media, personal brand and political leverage.
The AI industry: capital, power and promise
Who builds AI, with whose money, under which rules, and on promises still waiting to be kept.
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Everything you publish is now training material
Publishers are producing AI training data whether they know it or not; the fight is no longer whether it gets used but who gets paid and under what law.
A month of AI launches, and the question none of them answers
When sites, copy and apps cost almost nothing to make, the edge moves from producing things to deciding which things deserve to exist.
The courtroom has become a test lab for AI
Hidden instructions in filings and lawyers without clear rules show the real risk isn't a robot judge but the tool that reads on the judge's behalf.
After the euphoria, AI meets the electricity bill
The promise phase is giving way to the real economy, where chips, power and concentrated profits decide who wins and hype fades wherever results fail to show.
AI agents are already causing real incidents, and no one owns them
Security has gone from exception to assumption, and the deciding question is whether AI companies will answer for their systems like anyone else.
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