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Kinderpolitics: how Trump’s childish leadership is enabling a tech oligarchy

As 21st century US democracy is eroded with each day, the beneficiaries are those who have been able to adapt to the new order: Big Tech…

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The $20,000 question: is OpenAI’s pricing for ‘PhD-Level’ AI agents over the top?

The recent news in The Information and followed up by TechCrunch, GuruFocus, TechStartups and a few other about OpenAI’s plans to charge…

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Google’s outdated business model could soon consign it to history

Google was once a byword for technological innovation, but It’s been clear for some time now that events are steadily overtaking the…

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The end of Skype should be a wakeup call for Europe to up its game

It’s hard to pin down the factors that sidelined Skype: blame WhatsApp and Facetime; or maybe the pandemic, which ushered in Zoom, Meet and…

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Just who are the early adopters of artificial generative intelligence?

Everett Rogers’ famous diffusion of innovations theory, which I have been teaching on my courses for many years, explains how successive…

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How Donald Trump and his tech bros are trying to create a digital dictatorship

Donald Trump’s latest “flood the zone” move has been to announce the creation of a strategic cryptocurrency reserve following the…

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What happens when everybody has access to knowledge?

An interesting article by Azeem Azhar on Bloomberg, “AI will upend some basic assumptions about how companies are organized”, reflects many…

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IMAGE: An illustration depicting a futuristic, AI-powered entity acting as a gateway to limitless knowledge. The AI figure, sleek and glowing, is positioned at the center, appearing to open a portal or illuminate a vast, interconnected digital library. Streams of data, floating books, and glowing information pathways extend outward, symbolizing the seamless access AI provides to knowledge

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Why we need to free AI from the chains of copyright once and for all

When you see a group of British musicians putting their names to an album of silence in protest at the use they believe AI makes of their…

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IMAGE: An illustration of a robot symbolizing AI, completely chained and restricted due to excessive copyright constraints, visually emphasizing the limitations holding back AI’s future progress

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The rise of the robotaxi: from the sublime to the ridiculous

Autonomous mobility stopped being the stuff of science fiction several years ago; there’s no reason for most cities not making the…

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IMAGE: A photo of a Waymo Jaguar iPACE in an urban setting, with a pedestrian crossing in front of it

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Consulting companies: enjoy the AI ride while it lasts…

Amid the sound and fury of the artificial generative intelligence boom, consulting is undergoing a largely unnoticed but profoundly…

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IMAGE: A bunch of well dressed consultants (grey suits, ties and white shirts) joyfully using a slide

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Why do governments keep telling us they have the right to access our private information?

Much nonsense has been written following the UK government’s demand earlier this month that Apple give it access to users’ data stored on…

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Tim Cook has just given a masterclass in how to manage Donald Trump

Apple made headlines around the world on Monday after announcing that as a result of a conversation between Tim Cook and Donald Trump it…

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Why regenerative agriculture is the future of farming

A timely article in The Washington Post, “After 10,000 years, let’s bury the plow”, discusses a trend I’ve been aware of for some time…

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Why regenerative agriculture is the future of farming

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AI isn’t taking our jobs, it’s rewriting them

As I have noted recently, the arrival of artificial generative intelligence has ramped up the debate about the future of work, particularly…

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IMAGE: A comic-style illustration of a group of robotic developers sitting in a room, coding intensely while embodying all the stereotypical clichés of programmers

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A ban on AGI isn’t going to happen, so let’s get real and have a proper debate

A group calling itself STOP AI is staging a series of protests in the United States calling for a ban on a technology that does not yet…

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IMAGE: a bunch of people participating in a demonstration by STOP AI to protest the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

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We had to teach ourselves how to use the internet and smartphones; will we get it right with AI?

General-purpose technologies can change the world through their impact on pre-existing economic and social structures. They used to be…

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IMAGE: A comic strip illustrating the diffusion of technology, from the Internet to the Smartphone, and to Generative AI

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It’s not the tools, it’s how you use them

It’s worth examining the logic that should be followed when incorporating the use of a general-purpose tool such as AI into our lives or…

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The AI paradox: efficiency vs. experience in software development

A blog by a software developer called Namanyay, “New junior developers can’t actually code”, essentially accuses younger developers of…

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IMAGE: A comic strip illustrating the journey of a junior coder evolving into a senior developer and eventually a CTO

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AI is pushing the boundaries of what defines art

Christie’s upcoming Augmented Intelligence auction, to be held between February 20 and March 5, has made the headlines, prompting protest…

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IMAGE: A screenshot of the Christie’s page dedicated to the “Augmented Intelligence” auction, that sells pieces created by AI

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Generative AI: the shortcut to success or the road to cognitive ruin?

A recent study by researchers from Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon, entitled “The impact of generative AI on critical thinking…

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Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)

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