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Companies including Meta, Open AI, Google, and Anthropic have scraped nearly all available data from the internet to train their AI models, and have been accused of using copyrighted material without consent. Tech companies have said it qualifies as fair use, which allows the use of such material for research and other purposes. Some countries are trying to balance the need for good data with the need to compensate creators.

Government ownership of AI companies may promise shared wealth, but it risks weakening oversight and accountability.

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Samsung Electronics narrowly averted a walkout by nearly 48,000 workers this week, after executives agreed to a tentative deal over bonus payments. But the labor union’s demand for a bigger share of profits from the company’s semiconductor business has sparked questions — in South Korea and elsewhere — about who benefits from the AI industry, and whether its rewards should be shared more equitably.

For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives.

The biometric ID project has been halted and investigated in multiple countries, but it recently partnered with Tinder, Zoom, and Docusign to verify users.

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What I like about this text is a focus on what are positive goals, what is desired, and what is desirable.

Surveillance technology in Africa is increasingly being shaped by China.

Countries are growing uneasy about their dependence on U.S. technology firms.

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Lawmakers across Latin America are joining global efforts to rein in ultrafast fashion.

A few months old article regarding the downturn in fortunes of TATA group’s EV ambitions

A few months old article regarding the downturn in fortunes of TATA group’s EV ambitions

Oman’s dream for a spaceport sits in a swath of desert overlooking the Arabian Sea. If all goes according to plan, three separate complexes here will launch everything from small suborbital rockets for scientific experiments to superheavy behemoths into space, bringing payloads of satellites to the stars. There will be a large mission-control building, warehouses for rocket assembly and testing, and a business park. If the spaceport succeeds, by 2027 Oman will join the small number of countries — just a dozen to date — that possess the facilities to launch objects into space.

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Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valley backs off

Across China, queer college societies, which had been rare spaces to safely push boundaries, were being swiftly erased from the Chinese internet. In July, 14 of the largest and most prominent accounts were banned, cutting connections between thousands of members scattered across the country and casting them adrift.

Technology, finance, startup culture — all of these communities have developed their own language, with slang and jargon so common that they’ve passed into wider use. (What is a “platform,” anyway?)