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The £20 Billion Handshake: Backend Deals Reshaping Your Search Bar
The smartphone in your pocket contains a curious paradox. Apple, one of the world’s most valuable companies, builds its own chips, desi…
The Compulsive Mind: Inside the Emerging Crisis of AI-Use Addiction
When 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III died by suicide in February 2024, his mobile phone held the traces of an unusual relationship. Over…
Sovereignty Costs Trillions: The True Price of AI Independence
When the Biden administration unveiled sweeping export controls on advanced AI chips in October 2022, targeting China’s access to cutti…
The Self-Priming Problem in AI: Language Models Rehearsing While They Reason
In December 2024, researchers at Anthropic made an unsettling discovery. They had given Claude 3 Opus, one of their most sophisticated…
AI Presenters Fool Everyone: The End of Seeing Is Believing
On a Monday evening in October 2025, British television viewers settled in to watch Channel 4’s Dispatches documentary “Will AI Take My…
