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Algorithmic culture
Where software stops being a tool and starts setting the terms. Briefs on artificial intelligence, platforms and the companies that write the defaults everyone else inherits.
The low cost of fair use
Technology firms treat vast repositories of online media as a low-cost raw material for building generative models.
Reform versus escape infrastructure
Efforts to reform complex terrestrial systems are proceeding through deep, internal restructuring.
Public plans and conditional delivery
ECOWAS can reaffirm a 2027 launch commitment for the Eco; that declaration does not itself settle which governments will exchange national monetary arrangements for a common curre…
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Infrastructure rescue and private leverage
Cloudflare’s proposed intervention in web publishing starts with its position between content and those accessing it.
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Building is not the same as proving
SpudCell can divide, according to Professor Dave Explains’ episode description, but the programme still asks whether the synthetic cell is alive.
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