We’ve concentrated the most strategically important manufacturing capacity in human history on a single island, 100 miles from a hostile great power, with no meaningful redundancy and no serious plan for what happens if it’s disrupted. That’s not a Taiwan problem; it’s a choice the rest of the world made, and it’s a choice that even in the best case-scenario would take years to undo.
Taiwan’s chips power the global economy. China holds the leverage…AI is shifting economic and, increasingly, political power away from governments. The nature and scale of the power wielded by today’s tech giants rivals the role occupied by the East India…
…This is ultimately the basis for global technological and political domination. The third is economic. TSMC produces roughly 90% of the world’s most advanced semiconductors and 99% of the chips used…
…tech companies, the conversation has now shifted from political to war risk, Alexander said. Apart from storing commercial information, Gulf data centers support government surveillance, intelligence work, and military communications, making them…
…He now runs The Indian Deepfaker, an outfit that creates “hyper realistic deepfakes” including those of politicians, and what he calls grief tech — AI-generated avatars of dead people that can speak…
…big tech to set up data centers in the country. But this push is colliding with a very different reality on the ground. In February, the Indian government announced a 20-year…
…Adams is an expert on AI governance and the political economy of emerging technologies. She was one of the lead drafters of the African Union Commission’s Continental AI Strategy, a framework…
…We make foreign content sound Brazilian with our Brazilian idiosyncrasies; with AI, we lose that.” AI voice technology, which includes text-to-speech and voice cloning that can replicate a person’s…
…In part because of the political pressures they face, I got the sense that many of them will continue to grind in the shadow of American tech titans — wary of the spotlight…
…The company responsible for the Plataforma Centinela project, as well as the new tower, is a little-known technology firm that has quietly grown into a surveillance powerhouse in Latin America. Over…