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Korea unveils $534 bil. plan to lead global chip race in AI era - The Korea Times Korea unveiled an ambitious plan Wednesday to invest 700 trillion won ($534 billion) to bolster its semiconductor sector and gain an edge in the gl...

Korea unveiled an ambitious plan Wednesday to invest $534 billion to bolster its semiconductor sector and gain an edge in the global chip race shaped by artificial intelligence (AI), aiming at a more balanced, innovation-driven ecosystem spanning the entire semiconductor value chain.

Planned hyperscale data centers in Scotland could demand 2-3GW of power - report Just under Scotland's winter peak demand of 4GW

"According to Foxglove, the new demand would be comparable to two to three times the capacity of the 1180MW Peterhead gas power station....and the total generation capacity of all of Scotland’s offshore wind turbines in 2024, which stood at 2971MW"

www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/plan...

Robert Reich The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)

Netflix is planning to buy Warner Bros for $72 billion, allowing it to acquire its major competitor HBO Max.

This corporate monopoly will be great for Netflix’s executives and a raw deal for everyone else.

Lina Khan explains the danger of corporate concentration.

The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales.

Tesla makes up less than 2%.

The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.

Irgendein Produkt von Palantir in Deutschland auf Landes- oder Bundesebene einzusetzen, ist fahrlässig und ein gewaltiger Fehler. Wie man es auch dreht wendet, am Ende überwiegen die Nachteile und Risiken sehr deutlich—die Entscheidung der öffentlichen Hand muss klar dagegen sein.

„Key demands from Big Tech firms and their affiliated lobby associations to water down the AI Act and weaken data protection made it into the Commission’s proposals;
Big Tech weaponised the Trump administration to attack the EU’s digital rulebook“

Sollte das jetzt nicht alle jene entgültig zum Schweigen bringen, die sich unerhörte Mühe damit geben, in deutschen Medien den trumpschen Faschismus zu verharmlosen und wegreden zu wollen.

SoftBank to Invest Up to $3 Billion in Factory for OpenAI Data Centers SoftBank plans to invest up to $3 billion to remodel an electric vehicle plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that will produce equipment for OpenAI’s forthcoming data centers, according to two people with knowl...

Not that EVs are at all a solution for climate change, but now SoftBank is putting $3b to remodel an EV factory to begin manufacturing parts for data centers.

www.theinformation.com/articles/sof...

OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias thelivinglib.org/openai-is-hu...

Korea Links Startup Policy to Worker Welfare: New ESG Standard for Innovation - KoreaTechDesk | Korean Startup and Technology News Korea ties startup funding to employee welfare, setting a new ESG benchmark that reshapes innovation policy and investor confidence in Asia’s tech ecosystem.

Starting in 2026, startups seeking government-backed innovation programs will need to demonstrate compliance with worker welfare standards, including active participation in Korea’s retirement pension system koreatechdesk.com/korea-startu...

YouTube video by BBC News Sudanese survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality | BBC News

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Why Digital Sovereignty Matters Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud blackouts paralysed public services across the globe this autumn — a warning of what happens when essential infrastructure is left in the hands of private US monopolies.

What can we learn from @awscloud.bsky.social and @microsoft.com recent cloud blackouts?

The extent of dependency is so deep & widespread that we must develop #digital #sovereignty

This is what @paologerbaudo.bsky.social & I explain for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Bill Gates Says He's Fighting Climate Change While Cashing in on Oil The billionaire's investment portfolio includes millions of shares of companies contributing to the climate crisis.

From 2020

“It’s frustrating to me when I see Bill Gates held up as this hero of climate change when you know that he’s benefitting from all of these investments that are directly contributing to climate change,” said Justin Mikulka

Amazon Cloud Outage Reveals Democratic Deficit in Relying on Big Tech | TechPolicy.Press The AWS outage demonstrates the need for a fundamental shift in how we think about digital infrastructure, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le.

Yesterday's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. Here's a thread with some key quotes!

Read the full piece here:

Generative AI is literally destroying knowledge

Today is a good day to remind everyone that the US narrative claiming the President of Venezuela is a drug trafficker is 100% lies. The Trump administration knows this, the Nobel committee knows this... it is a campaign to manufacture consent for invasion. Don't fall for it.

Die Rechtstreiber der CDU Einige Wirtschaftslobbyisten und Denkfabriken untergraben aktiv die Brandmauer. Der nächste mögliche Tabubruch: eine Minderheitsregierung

Aktuell fordern einige CDUler und Andreas Rödder, die Brandmauer zur AfD fallen zu lassen. @gabrielakeller.bsky.social und ich haben Rödders Thinktank R21 schon im Januar als "Rechtstreiber" der CDU beschrieben - im Text, den die CDU in ihrer kleinen Anfrage kritisierte
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Autoexporte - Deutschland stagniert, China hat Deutschland durch gigantisches Wachstum in 2022 überholt und exportiert schon jetzt 2,5 Mio Autos mehr pro Jahr.

Zur Erinnerung: DAS ist das Problem der deutschen Automobilindustrie. (Grafik von Ember) Sie hat die Elektro-Revolution verschlafen und will jetzt verzweifelt Zulieferer retten, die nur Teile für Verbrenner herstellen können. Innovator's Dilemma in Reinkultur.

This is sickening, I knew generative AI was a fascist tool, I've been researching that extensively, but I don't think enough people know that. This is heart breaking. Trying to destroy the legacy of good people for the cheap lulz

Gavin Newsom blocks effort to make CA data centers disclose water use. Why? Data-center water usage can vary from 110 million gallons to 1.8 billion gallons per year.

California Governor Gavin Newsom "vetoed a bill on Saturday that would have provided more transparency around the water usage of data centers, which regularly require millions of gallons of fresh water to cool their computers."

Towns are saying no to AI data centers. One got sued over it. A developer sued a Michigan township after it voted against a data center proposal. Cities in Ohio and Missouri have explored data center bans.

“It feels like there’s been a real shift over the last six months or so in terms of the public just becoming aware of what data centers are,” said Ben Green, assistant professor of information at the University of Michigan. “And becoming increasingly skeptical.”

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.

This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.

Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.

Be warned.

China’s new global initiatives aren’t just diplomacy, they’re strategy. By tackling climate, food, and AI challenges, Beijing is filling gaps the U.S. once led, while boosting its soft power.

Tensions Between Privacy and Transparency Re-emerge in India’s Electoral Regulations | TechPolicy.Press Amber Sinha explains how the ECI’s voter roll cleanup in Bihar raises concerns over privacy, transparency, and disenfranchisement ahead of state elections.

In the Indian state of Bihar’s voter roll purge, the Election Commission claims “privacy” to limit scrutiny—yet keeps public voter rolls exposing personal data, writes Tech Policy Press contributing editor Amber Sinha. The real conflict isn’t privacy vs. transparency, but power vs. accountability.

Amidst Violent Immigration Raids, DHS Turns to Big Tech to Silence Dissent | TechPolicy.Press Free Press advocacy director Jenna Ruddock says the Trump administration is targeting anyone monitoring its expanding immigration enforcement operations.

Amidst a violent crackdown, the Trump administration has set its sights on anyone monitoring its expanding immigration enforcement operations—and it’s turning to major tech companies to help, writes Free Press advocacy director Jenna Ruddock.

The images that will stick in my mind from this week include jackbooted thugs rappelling from a Blackhawk helicopter to rip children from their beds in Chicago and yet another indiscriminate murder from the sky, both events celebrated by a lawless administration in videos shared on social media.