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Token unit costs are down, but total compute bills are up, because users demand newer, more powerful models, and these consume far more tokens to complete increasingly complex tasks.
Moreover, flat-rate pricing strategies, designed to fuel growth (e.g., $20/month subscriptions), are now economically suicidal for AI startups as power users orchestrate compute-heavy operations.
The paper makes a compelling case for proactive, systemic intervention before AGI development becomes unmanageable. Some issues—like IP reform or temporal adaptability—are tractable.
Others—like recursive self-improvement or autonomous optimization—strike at the very heart of human control over technology. Future-proof governance will require bold shifts in regulatory design.
Models developed by tech titans will coexist with a vibrant, competitive, and increasingly powerful landscape of specialized, open-source, and fine-tuned models.
This dynamic is shifting the primary competitive battleground away from a contest of raw scale towards a nuanced competition based on efficient, domain-specific application & deep workflow integration
AI browsers have the potential to reshape how we interact with the web — making browsing more efficient, interactive, and useful. But with that comes power: the ability to control what users see...
...how content is summarized, what is suppressed, how data is collected, and how models are trained. These tools could enable censorship, propaganda, targeted surveillance, and manipulation.
The case is not just about Amazon’s market power—it is a warning signal about the role of AI-driven pricing systems and algorithmic enforcement mechanisms in perpetuating anti-competitive practices.
Amazon’s use of automated systems like SC-FOD to monitor competitors’ prices and suppress Buy Box access is a form of AI-enforced market discipline.
The UK library sector is cautiously optimistic—keen to harness AI’s efficiency and insights while fiercely guarding against its biases, ethical pitfalls, and ecological harms.
Their thoughtful engagement with AI—if well-supported—can help ensure that this disruptive technology ultimately serves the public good.
With GPT-5, Meta’s Llama 4, and Elon Musk’s Grok 4 showing only modest improvements despite massive scale-ups, the diminishing returns of this strategy are now visible.
As Marcus notes, governments have let AI firms operate with minimal regulation. That tolerance may evaporate quickly if the harms continue unchecked.
At a fundamental cognitive level, we are predisposed to resonate more deeply with the pain of "us" than with the pain of "them." By framing out-groups as dangerous, threatening, or competitive...
...political actors can manipulate these innate cognitive biases, widening the empathy gap and making prejudice, discrimination, and violence seem more psychologically acceptable to the in-group.
These insights—derived from over a billion anonymized interactions—offer an unprecedented glimpse into the behaviors, preferences, and patterns that shape AI adoption.
70% of ChatGPT consumer usage is for non-work purposes. This is not driven by new users, but by existing users shifting toward personal use, suggesting long-term integration of LLMs into daily life.
This case—Disney et al. v. MiniMax—is likely to become a landmark precedent in defining the permissible boundaries of generative AI.
If MiniMax loses, the case will serve as a playbook; if it wins or settles quietly, it will still fuel a policy debate on AI, copyright, and the limits of creative autonomy in machine-generated media.
Music Labels v. Internet Archive: Copyright owners can successfully challenge digitization initiatives, even those with cultural or nonprofit goals, when proper licensing is not secured.
Nonprofits and digital platforms must assess their copyright exposure before launching digitization or access projects, obtaining explicit licenses or engaging in collective licensing agreements.