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🔒 Sex that drives innovation: the role of the adult industry in technological development (and AI)
For decades, the adult industry has served as an unofficial test lab for solutions that later enter the mainstream. Pornography is one of the most effective accelerators of technological innovation in history.
🔒 Regulatory straitjacket or digital shield? Two visions for the future of AI
The world is facing a dilemma: whether to keep AI in check with regulations, or to trust free-market mechanisms and legal liability. For businesses, this means calculating whether it is more cost-effective…
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🔒 AI’s green tax: Will data centers face special taxation?
The issue of AI’s impact on the climate has ceased to be the domain of activists and has made it onto CFOs’ agendas. Is AI another industrial revolution that requires freedom, or…
🔒 Will AI heat your home? The new heat economy
Amid new EU regulations and rising energy costs, the data center industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Waste heat, previously vented into the atmosphere, is becoming a liquid asset that could revolutionize…
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🔒 Puff of steam, wheels in motion
The year is 2045. At a fusion facility near Marseille, where the successor to the ITER project has just achieved a stable thermonuclear reaction at a temperature of one hundred million degrees,…
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🔒 Is it learning or… stealing? The debate over royalties, the future of culture and the limits of automation
The debate over royalties for training AI models on others’ creative works is about more than money. On one hand, there’s the idea of open access to knowledge and the tradition of…
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🔒 Trust for sale? When AI has to make money
ChatGPT is introducing ads. This isn’t just a change to the business model. It’s a shift in the boundary between help and influence in a conversation that’s increasingly replacing search engines and…
🔒 AI Act and GDPR: simplification as a maturity test for SMEs
The European Commission has unveiled the Digital Omnibus package — a set of legislative proposals meant to make the AI Act and the GDPR simpler for small and medium-sized businesses. It’s a…
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🔒 We had Dr. Google, now Dr. AI has arrived. What will ChatGPT Health change?
You can look at OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT Health two ways: as just another product in the AI ecosystem, or as proof that something much more important is shifting—the point where the…
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🔒 Nanotechnology: between DNA origami and gray goo
Back in 1986, when E. Drexler was scaring the world with the idea of “gray goo”—self-replicating nanobots devouring the biosphere after being accidentally released into the environment—it was hard to imagine that…
