Technology, AI, capital and institutions, examined through who builds systems, who controls them and who benefits.
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Apple has published the rulebook for its forthcoming Maps advertising product, and the document reveals a deliberately narrower commercial surface than the one Google operates.
In 1973, when OPEC's oil embargo revealed how much of the industrialised world ran on Gulf petroleum, the region's monarchies discovered they had bought themselves a kind of leverage that money alone could not manufacture.
In 1936, a 23-year-old Cambridge graduate student named Alan Turing published a 36-page paper describing an imaginary tape reader to settle a question in mathematical logic — and inadvertently defined what a computer is.
Finland did build one of the world's most admired education systems around trust rather than constant inspection, competition and high-stakes testing.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have spent the past year trying to prove that enough capital can purchase a way out of a monopoly.
Singapore had local freshwater reservoirs in 1965, but depended heavily on imported water. Its later prosperity grew through trade, investment, infrastructure and education.
Dubai is routinely treated as an oil city because it is wealthy, Gulf-based and visually associated with the wider United Arab Emirates.
Open a social platform and it appears that millions of people are speaking at once.
When a government objects to a feature that has not yet launched, over harms that have not yet occurred, and demands the company justify its design choices, something unusual is happening.
Munich-based defence AI company Helsing has closed a $1.8 billion Series E at an $18 billion valuation, according to Tech.eu . The round was oversubscribed, with the company stating that investor demand significantly exceeded the available allocation.
On Monday, 13 July, a coalition of economists, AI researchers and technology executives issued an unusually compressed warning about the economic consequences of increasingly capable artificial intelligence.
In 1911, a geologist named Thomas Griffith Taylor was walking through a frozen valley on the eastern edge of Antarctica when he came across a stain in the ice that looked like it belonged in a slaughterhouse.
