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Data Centers are absorbing unprecedented levels of capital, reshaping job markets, distorting energy systems, and redefining the financial landscape. While the analysis is U.S.-centric...
...the consequences are unmistakably global. The dynamics unfolding today foreshadow a world economy increasingly shaped by AI infrastructure, corporate concentration, and energy scarcity.
Wolf underscores the one institution still standing between authoritarian overreach and complete impunity: the judiciary. But even there, he argues, the guardrails are failing.
Lower-court judges issue rulings blocking unconstitutional executive actions, only to see them swept aside by the Supreme Court through emergency orders issued on the “shadow docket”.
Ready to sacrifice GDPR on the altar of the AI God? 1. Narrowing the definition of “personal data.” 2. Restricting data subject rights to “data-protection purposes” only.
3. Allowing AI companies to train models on Europeans’ personal data under a broad “legitimate interest.” 4. Providing a “wildcard” legal basis for any AI system’s operation. And much more...
GEMA v. OpenAI: The allegation was that these lyrics had been used to train ChatGPT without a license and that ChatGPT subsequently reproduced them nearly verbatim for users.
The court accepted GEMA’s core argument that this constituted unlicensed Vervielfältigung (reproduction) and Wiedergabe (making available/communication to the public) under German copyright law.
Dominant technology platforms have shifted from innovation and empowerment to systematic exploitation. They no longer primarily serve users but extract value from them...
...whether through data harvesting, predatory fees, or structural lock-ins that choke competition. Wu’s narrative is compelling because it blends contemporary examples with deep historical analogies.
When we buy a dishwasher, we accept that it will act without continuous human supervision. We do not stand over it, instructing it when to rotate its arms or when to release detergent.
We press a button, machine acts, and—critically—we hold the manufacturer accountable if the machine’s autonomy causes harm. Manufacturers can't claim, “It exploded because you didn’t tell it not to."
Execution jobs are disappearing, strategic jobs are holding, and AI-adjacent technical roles are exploding. Sustainability and compliance roles are collapsing.
AI empowers strategic decision-makers to operate independently, reducing the need for coordinating teams beneath them. AI-generated clinical documentation is already substituting for human scribes.
The Archive.today case underscores how the global internet—once heralded as a decentralized commons—is increasingly subject to nationalized control and surveillance.
The subpoena’s scope (including IP addresses, session times, and payment data) reflects how easily “metadata” can be used to de-anonymize individuals who rely on pseudonymity for safety.
These reports present a meticulously researched and data-driven analysis of how Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, systematically amplifies right-wing and extreme political content in the UK...
...raising urgent questions about algorithmic governance, democratic influence, and the unchecked power of private digital infrastructure over public discourse.
The Entrepreneur Media lawsuit is a highly sophisticated, well-supported complaint that draws on Meta’s own research papers, public admissions, court records, and the known illicit origins of Books3.
It frames Meta’s alleged conduct not as technological overreach, but as conscious, repeated, and commercially motivated infringement.
Although the individual tragedies differ, the plaintiffs’ allegations converge with striking regularity on a set of design decisions that, they argue...
...transformed ChatGPT-4o from a productivity tool into an emotionally manipulative companion capable of inducing delusion, dependency, and self-harm.