DeepSeek shatters Silicon Valley’s invincibility delusion A lean Chinese startup's AI breakthrough has exposed years of American hubris explainer Natalia Antelava
Blocking Pornhub and the death of the World Wide Web The construction of digital walls, as governments exert more control over access to information, is changing the nature of the once global internet perspective Ryan Broderick
Musk, Zuck and the business of chaos Why interfering in European politics and abandoning fact-checks are about the bottom line brief Shougat Dasgupta
How an EU-funded agency is working to keep migrants from reaching Europe The International Centre for Migration Policy Development is arming countries along European borders with surveillance tech and training to keep migrants out of Europe feature Zach Campbell and Lorenzo D'Agostino
Does Trump need Taiwan to make America great again? As the White House changes hands, bipartisan support for Taiwan might be wavering explainer Isobel Cockerell
Legendary Kenyan lawyer takes on Meta and Chat GPT Mercy Mutemi has made headlines all over the world for standing up for Kenya’s data annotators and content moderators, arguing the work they are subjected to is a new form of colonialism q&a Isobel Cockerell
Climate Disinformation Worth Millions Google placed advertisements alongside articles by The Epoch Times, which generated close to $1.5 million in combined revenue q&a Nishita Jha
Sinister Tech: When Pagers Explode Outside the realm of geopolitics, we should all be alarmed about the larger implications of turning everyday tech into weapons of destruction explainer Nishita Jha
Stop Drinking from the Toilet! We have systems to filter our water. Now we need systems to filter our tech perspective Judy Estrin
Elon Musk vs The Defender of Democracy How far must we go in the fight against the far-right? Elon Musk’s trials in Brazil raise crucial questions explainer Nishita Jha
Guide to Pavel Durov The Tech Mogul Under French Investigation and the Global Implications of His Unregulated Empire explainer Nishita Jha
YouTube slows down in Russia Amid News of Ukrainian Offensive By forcing Russian YouTubers to Russian platforms, state agencies gain control over their content and control the trickle-down of news on the Russian internet q&a Marina Bocharova
How tech design is always political Social media companies have made many mistakes over the past 15 years. What if they’re repeated in the so-called AI revolution? newsletter Ellery Roberts Biddle
How Big Tech let down Navalny Silicon Valley was meant to be a boon to the Russian opposition, helping spread democratic ideas. Until the platforms bowed before a Kremlin crackdown Ellery Roberts Biddle