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9 posts tagged ai.
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Australia's dock workers and the AI labour question
Australian waterfront workers demanding a 28-hour week in AI-related negotiations have surfaced the central political question of the decade: who captures the productivity dividend from automation?
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Meta's AI portraits and the consent illusion
Meta's decision to generate AI images from public Instagram profiles without explicit consent reveals how platform terms of service have quietly replaced meaningful privacy law.
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Samsung's 1,800% profit and the AI chip order
Samsung's nineteen-fold quarterly profit surge is not merely a corporate earnings story — it reveals how the AI hardware race is redrawing the map of global economic power.
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The AI selloff and the return of scepticism
As tech stocks tumble and Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs, the AI investment cycle confronts the oldest question in financial history: what happens when the future arrives slower than the stock price.
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OpenAI's IPO and the valuation of unknowing
An $850 billion IPO filing for a company that has never turned a profit exposes how financial markets price narrative rather than fundamentals in the AI age.
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Big Tech trembles and the AI valuation question
A Wall Street selloff driven by Big Tech fears revives the AI bubble debate, but the more interesting question is whether markets are finally pricing the gap between AI hype and AI revenue.
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Anthropic's pause call and who gets to decide
Anthropic's call for AI labs to pause development raises the right alarm but reveals how the companies best positioned to slow AI are also the ones with the greatest financial incentive not to.
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Big Tech selloff and the AI valuation question
Friday's Nasdaq plunge — the biggest single-day drop since April 2025 — is less a rate-scare story than a reckoning with whether the AI investment thesis has been priced at peak optimism.
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Trump's voluntary AI safety order is a start
The administration's new AI executive order substitutes voluntary review for binding regulation — a pragmatic half-measure that at least acknowledges the security stakes.