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Power and capital
Follow the money far enough and it becomes an argument about who decides. Briefs on economies, finance, business models and the future of work.
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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Ownership is not cultural continuity
Amazon now gets to decide who plays Bond and how the series runs, according to The Global Story’s description.
Whose technological risk gets counted
Drone operators in Ukraine’s war spool fiber-optic cable across ground and trees; according to Endless Thread’s description, often single-use aircraft leave behind cable that does…
AI expansion tests shared capacity
Nano Banana permits 32,768 input tokens, according to Max Woolf, who proposes using the full allowance.
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