The big tech companies are poised to establish early positions of dominance in the emerging XR economy. We offer a novel layer model of the emerging XR economy to support regulatory interventions that target structural sources of power.
News and Research articles on Big tech
Under-16 social media bans may seem like a reasonable response that forestalls consequences, but, in ways we have yet to appreciate, they may prove a strategic blunder, serving the best interests of the very tech companies they seek to counter.
As the Gulf war pushes data embassies into the mainstream, the Global South risks importing a familiar pattern of dependencies repackaged as sovereignty.
The article shows how EU regulatory approaches to AI align with Silicon Valley technosolutionist imaginaries.
This opinion piece critically examines the EU’s strategy to build AI infrastructure through the announced AI Gigafactories as alternatives to hyperscalers and leading means to strengthen its digital sovereignty.
Whether or not data centres make it to space, the possibility itself exposes the limitations of resistance hinged only on proximate material experience, thus beckoning a wider and deeper movement.
What big tech’s latest sustainability reports say (and don’t say) about the true environmental cost of AI.
This paper examines the ethical and legal issues arising from the closure of a data-rich firms such as Facebook and provides four policy recommendations to mitigate the resulting harms to society.