AI gets pinkwashed as female users are targeted
Laura Marajofsky|
Big Tech invests in women via influencers and ‘empowering’ messages to improve its image and boost revenue from female data
Catastrophists versus accelerationists: Will AI destroy the world or save it?
Academics Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares argue in their new book that the technology could lead to our extinction. Is there reason to believe them?
Leaks of private data for use in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign raises alarms
Civil organizations and members of Congress are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security explain the sharing of information between government agencies and contracts with AI firm Palantir to locate undocumented immigrants
Tech magnate Peter Thiel strengthens ties with Milei in Buenos Aires
The founder of Palantir, the data processing company, arrives in Argentina after his visit to Rome to talk about the Antichrist
Tech oligarchs fear only death, taxes, and Greta Thunberg
Carlos Fernández Liria|
The accelerationists of anarcho-capitalism want to bring their new conception of human nature to fruition. They have the means to do so, Carlos Fernández Liria explains in ‘Against the Dark Enlightenment’
Detachment 201, the US Army unit led by tech executives
Little is known about what this Executive Innovation Corps has done so far after being established in June, when four execs from Meta, Palantir and OpenAI were appointed Reserve Lt. Cols through a special direct commissioning program
European money pours into Palantir: Over 100 asset managers and banks boost their investments in the controversial tech company
Investors across the continent have already put more than $27 billion into this leader in military-grade AI that has been accused of numerous human rights violations
By your command, my robot: AI war games spark debate about ethical limits
Donald Trump has ordered the termination of all contracts with Anthropic due to the technology company’s insistence on imposing red lines on the use of its technology
‘Hicks with very little taste’: Why Silicon Valley and the far right are so determined to build colossal monuments
The drive to erect enormous structures that reject modernity has united technology investors and the White House
Eric Schmidt: ‘Europe doesn’t have an AI strategy. If it doesn’t invest heavily, it will end up using Chinese models’
The former Google leader warns about the risks to Europeans of their technological dependence
Davos highlights the deterioration of America’s international standing
The World Economic Forum shows how Trump’s policies are alienating traditional allies, giving more space to China and garnering marginal support
The US-Europe standoff reaches Davos, set to hold a critical meeting on Greenland
The World Economic Forum celebrates its traditional annual meeting, marked by the transatlantic crisis and the assault on free trade and international institutions
ICE intensifies surveillance of immigrants with facial recognition programs, human tracking, and social media monitoring
The federal agency’s activity has raised concerns about whether spying on undocumented foreigners will be extended to political dissidents in Washington
Big Tech enters the war business: How Silicon Valley is becoming militarized
Giants like Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon have gone from avoiding any involvement in the military industry to signing large contracts with the Pentagon and Israel
How the US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state
President Trump and his former star advisor, Elon Musk, have accelerated the deployment of a vast technological infrastructure that monitors the lives of millions of people. The system is focusing on immigrants — for now
ImmigrationOS by Palantir: Trump’s new tool to ‘completely’ track immigrants’ lives
Experts says the controversial software, which collects biographical, biometric, and geolocation information, violates fundamental human rights
Palantir, Trump’s ‘big brother’ dominating the stock market
The data analysis and surveillance company is the darling of Wall Street for its use of artificial intelligence in defense and national security
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