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"‘Cyberselfish’ Author Revives Her Warning as Techno-Libertarianism Faces a New Reckoning"
A decade after her book was effectively sidelined, author and critic Jaron Lanier’s longtime interlocutor and fellow technology skeptic is back in the conversation, using the renewed attention to challenge the assumptions behind techno-libertarianism. Her argument is blunt: the worldview that once celebrated digital platforms as inherently liberating now looks outdated in an era defined by concentrated power, algorithmic manipulation, and AI-driven scale.
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FAA Widens AI Guidance to Ease Congestion Across U.S. Airspace
The Federal Aviation Administration is expanding its use of artificial intelligence to help manage congestion across the national airspace system, a move that could reshape how traffic flow is coordinated during periods of heavy demand. Airlines have welcomed the tool as a practical step toward reducing delays, while the air traffic controllers' union says it was not involved in the rollout.
China’s Espionage Push Raises the Stakes in the Global AI Race
A widening body of reporting points to an aggressive Chinese intelligence effort aimed at Western technology, with artificial intelligence now at the center of the contest. The campaign underscores how industrial espionage, talent acquisition, and influence operations are converging into a single strategic battle for computing power, model know-how, and semiconductor advantage.
Nvidia China Scandal Fuels Defiance, Doubt, and a New AI Flashpoint
A widening controversy over Nvidia chip access in China is intensifying skepticism about U.S. export controls while hardening Beijing’s defiant stance on AI self-reliance. The episode is also sharpening scrutiny of how advanced American semiconductors continue to reach Chinese users through indirect channels, despite years of restrictions and warnings.
Meet the Seven Founders Poised to Turn Anthropic Into a Fortune-Making AI Powerhouse
Anthropic, the fast-rising artificial intelligence company founded in 2021 by a seven-person team spanning research, policy, journalism and engineering, is moving closer to a valuation that could make its co-founders multi-billionaires. The company’s ascent underscores how the AI boom is concentrating extraordinary wealth among a small group of technical and strategic insiders while intensifying competition with larger rivals.
AI Pushes Metal Extraction Toward a New Industrial Era
The metals industry is entering a new phase as frontier artificial intelligence and machine learning begin to target one of its oldest bottlenecks: extraction. While smelting and casting have been transformed repeatedly over the past century, the upstream chemistry and process pathways that govern how metals are separated from ore have changed far more slowly. That gap is now drawing intense interest from miners, processors, and technology developers seeking higher recovery rates, lower energy use, and less waste.
Covered Calls Offer Income Path Through Nvidia Volatility
As Nvidia shares continue to swing on shifting expectations around artificial intelligence demand, margins and valuation, investors are looking for ways to stay exposed without relying on a straight-line rally. A persistent covered call strategy can turn that uncertainty into a source of income, offering a more defensive way to participate in the stock while reducing downside pressure.
Pelosi’s Successor Signals a New AI Regulatory Era as Data Centers Hit Power Limits
Nancy Pelosi’s likely successor in Congress is positioning himself as an aggressive voice on artificial intelligence, reflecting California’s growing role in shaping the next phase of U.S. tech regulation. At the same time, the physical infrastructure behind the AI boom is running into a harder constraint: data centers are straining electric grids, raising costs and complicating expansion plans.
Nvidia Faces Pressure to Reinforce Its AI Financial Cushion Ahead of Huang’s Exit
Nvidia is under growing scrutiny to strengthen the financial backstop supporting its artificial intelligence expansion as investors look beyond Jensen Huang’s leadership era. The debate centers on whether the company’s balance-sheet discipline, capital allocation and customer financing exposure can sustain its extraordinary growth once the founder-chief executive eventually steps aside.
Nscale Revises U.S. IPO Filing as Losses Widen, Testing Investor Appetite for AI Infrastructure
Nvidia-backed neocloud Nscale has updated its U.S. initial public offering paperwork, revealing a wider loss and underscoring the heavy capital demands of the artificial intelligence infrastructure race. The filing arrives as investors continue to scrutinize whether fast-growing cloud and data-center operators can convert surging demand into durable profits.
COP31 Opens in Antalya as Climate Negotiators Face a Harder Test: Delivery, Not Declarations
Thousands of delegates, lobbyists, and journalists have converged on Antalya, Turkey, for COP31, where the annual UN climate talks are expected to test whether governments can move beyond familiar pledges and into measurable implementation. This year’s summit arrives amid intensifying pressure over emissions cuts, climate finance, and the credibility of multilateral climate diplomacy, even as the broader global agenda is increasingly crowded by energy security, industrial policy, and geopolitical strain.
Universities Retreat from AI Cheating Detection as Assessment Crisis Deepens
Universities are increasingly conceding that artificial intelligence has outpaced their ability to reliably detect cheating, forcing a rethink of how coursework is designed, graded and defended. Regulators and sector leaders say the problem is no longer limited to plagiarism but extends to assessments that can be completed in minutes with generative AI, raising questions about the credibility of degrees and the future of in-person exams.
COP31 Opens in Antalya as Climate Talks Enter a High-Stakes Phase
The annual UN climate summit has opened in Antalya, Turkey, drawing thousands of delegates, lobbyists, and journalists to negotiations that will test whether governments can still turn broad climate pledges into enforceable action. Turkey and Australia are cohosting COP31, placing the focus on emissions cuts, finance, and the credibility of the multilateral process at a time of rising geopolitical strain.