Beyond ‘data colonialism’ — The role of Global South in an AI world| Business News

The world has never been evenly arranged. Borders, ideas, capital, opportunities have never ever been equally distributed. The language of global development has always attempted to soften this reality with polite abstractions such as “developing countries” or “emerging economies”, yet the deeper historical geography of inequality is best captured in one term: ‘Global South’. The […]

Spooked by AI and Layoffs, White-Collar Workers See Their Security Slip Away| Business News

Office workers are filled with anxiety. Many white-collar workers are becoming more pessimistic about their ability to find a new job if they get laid off. Tuesday’s jobs report was the latest ominous sign in an era of big corporate layoff announcements and CEOs warning that AI will replace workers. The overall unemployment rate ticked […]

U.S. Plans to Approve Export of Nvidia’s H200 Chip to China| Business News

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration plans to let Nvidia export its H200 chip to China, the latest twist in the artificial-intelligence chip designer’s efforts to maintain access to the world’s second-largest economy, according to people familiar with the matter. Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang The details The Commerce Department plans to approve licenses to China letting Nvidia […]

Adobe’s Louise Pentland| Business News

Artificial intelligence may be rewriting the rules of creativity, but Adobe’s legal compass still points toward one constant — trust. At a time when “AI-generated” and “authentic” are increasingly difficult to tell apart, Adobe has doubled down on its Content Credentials initiative, embedding digital provenance as a signature of transparency. For Louise Pentland, Chief Legal […]

Reddit vs Perplexity, and the scourge of ‘data laundering’ in an AI slop world| Business News

Reddit Inc. has sued Perplexity AI Inc. for “industrial-scale data laundering”, as AI firms increasingly scrape websites—often without permission—for original content to train their large language models. Data laundering is “cleaning up dirty data to make it look legal and trustworthy” (Representative Image/Unsplash) Three data-scraping companies—OxyLabs UAB, AWMProxy and SerpApi—have been illegally collecting Reddit data […]