Open source and open science, open data, enclosure vs. commons, public digital infrastructure.
UN General Assembly week: twenty-two leaders call for an institution able to act on the frontier and the three countries that host the labs do not sign, the companies ask the …
The first encyclical on artificial intelligence does with data and algorithms what Rerum Novarum did with the factory: it does not ask how to use them well but whom they belong to. …
The week the frontier announced it would slow down and the market did the arithmetic, while UNESCO presented a readiness questionnaire in Riyadh: two ways of governing the same …
The week the risk of extinction jumped from online forums to front pages, to the US Senate and to an interview in Buenos Aires: a threat that by definition includes all of us, …
The week OpenAI released the model it had halted for being dangerous, New York banned what it cannot see, and the detector used to measure how much of the web is AI-written turned …
Claude formalized the first computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in eleven days. The theorem is not the interesting part: that domain had a cheap, independent, hostile …
The week protecting minors meant identifying every adult, a philosophy journal banned what it cannot detect, and Amazon finished scanning the books it then throws away.
The week the United States asked thirty-five countries to pick a side, and the week both sides stopped for the same reason, for the same two weeks, entirely on their own say-so.
The week transparency became mandatory in Europe and California, and the week the numbers were published showing what it actually costs to lift an open model.