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The Dawn of a New Cold War
23+ min ago (476+ words) Image by Nick Fewings. When monsters square off, they are quick to showcase their asymmetrical superpowers. Put bluntly: China has the rocks, and America has the chips. With these superpowers on display, the two countries have clashed in a series…...
Layoffs Tied to AI Hurt Worker Productivity
1+ hour, 17+ min ago (877+ words) Business leaders and investors face a deepening paradox: Companies are pouring more money into artificial intelligence than ever, but they’re not seeing the gains in productivity that they expect. Even CEOs are starting to admit this disconnect. One Atlanta Federal…...
Standing With Humanity Against the Machine: Be A Reactionary Radical
4+ day, 29+ min ago (1525+ words) CounterPunch.org There is…a way of disqualifying the metaphysicians. Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods? ….what tangible good have…...
Project Panama: Scanning and Book Destruction at Anthropic
2+ week, 1+ day ago (969+ words) Counterpunch Book burning. Book pulping. Book vandalising. It’s all the fashion and, dare one say it, the rage. Libraries are carting them off to the dump. Repositories of memory are being shredded in favour of supposedly more useful digital formats....
AI Monitor: The Boom is Not in the Data
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (666+ words) Here are the most recent numbers: Fans of an AI-driven stock boom should be aware that they are making three big bets, all of which are far from certain. 1) The first is that productivity growth will soar to rates never…...
The New Conquistadors: Surveillance Capitalism and the Digital Frontier Between Your Ears
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (416+ words) There is a chapter in Edward Snowden’s memoir Permanent Record that receives less attention than it deserves—not the chapter about PRISM or XKeyscore or the Hong Kong hotel room, but the chapter describing what his colleagues actually did with…...
Data Center Fights Pit Social Values, Democracy and Capitalism Against Each Other
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (954+ words) Google data center in The Dalles, Oregon. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0. Data center projects continue to generate controversy around the country. In part, that’s because a variety of different groups have competing interests – some in favor of them, some opposed…...
Why AI Doesn’t Think, Cannot Reason, Isn’t Intelligent and Will Never Achieve Consciousness
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (42+ words) Poster for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (detail). Google AI Chatbot Analogy of AI to a Skyscraper: End Google AI Chatbot Output—————————- End Google Gemini AI Output—————— Rob Urie is an artist and political economist. His book Zen Economics is published by…...
Why Today's Global Tech War Needs Yesterday's History
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (478+ words) Still from Terminator: Genisys. This sobering paradox—where technology makes the world smaller but politics makes it meaner—feels entirely unprecedented. But it isn’t. It is simply the rehearsal of a cyclical historical script. Today’s algorithm-driven world is the third…...
The Chip War Against China is Failing
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (346+ words) To be clear, the export controls imposed since 2022, and progressively tightened through 2025, have had real effects. They disrupted China’s semiconductor supply chains, caused price spikes, and delayed access to the most advanced fabrication nodes by multiple years. Independent analysts broadly…...