Deadly deepfakes: A survival guide for the age of algorithmic war
… For me, a lot of these questions are wrapped up with critical questions about power. …
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RedNote chases U.S. expansion after its “TikTok refugee” moment fades
… In the U.S., RedNote could also face questions about censorship and data privacy if it grows influential. …
Can India be a “third way” AI alternative to the U.S. and China?
… The summit track on democratization of AI could lead with a challenge to the current concentration of compute and data resources in the hands of a few Big Tech firms, but could just as easily sidestep questions of power distribution in favor of a more benign mandate of access to more compute. …
In China, AI is forcing a rethink on jobs, education, and creativity
… Only by distilling what remains irreducibly human can we answer the question those strangers asked me, and see the value in what we do. …
AI sovereignty won’t come from renting Big Tech’s models
… As the world descends on New Delhi for India’s AI Impact Summit this week, the questions on the table could not be more consequential. …
If AI is so smart, why are our children unsafe?
… Increasingly, my larger question is: Why does the burden of “fixing” social media fall on children and parents instead of on the companies designing these systems? …
I let Alibaba’s AI agent plan my holiday. I ended up doing more work
… Unlike chatbots that simply answer questions, agents promise something bigger: the ability to reason, plan, remember — and take action on your behalf. …
I got stood up by an AI agent, and tracked down its human owner in China
… On the website, users can pay $2.99 to request life guidance, or get a $59 annual subscription — the AI agents answer the questions. …
What we’re reading: Rest of World’s summer book list
… Global Dispatch Pope’s encyclical raises questions on who gets to shape AI The encyclical provides an ethical and moral framework for AI, but one that is steeped in Catholicism and ignores the faiths and practices of a majority of the world’s population. …
In its push to become Big Tech’s data center hub, India is overlooking local resistance
… Since August 2025, Kanjilal has led an investigation at Microsoft and Amazon’s data centers in Telangana, which found that farmers and local self-governance bodies established to promote democracy and decentralized planning at the village level were kept out of the loop when assigning land for data… …