Justin Hendrix

Elon Musk departs after a welcome ceremony with President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People, Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Apple CEO Tim Cook, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent attend the welcome ceremony for U.S. President Donald Trump by Chinese President Xi Jinping, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, May 14, 2026. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool Photo via AP)

Contemplating 'Muskism' and the Age of Trillionaires

Chris Mills Rodrigo

Hundreds of nurses and supporters of the New York City nurses strike hold a rally in Times Square and march through midtown Manhattan on Day 26 of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) strike. (Photo by Melissa Bender/NurPhoto via AP)

AI, Gig Work, and the Future of Nursing

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Marlena Wisniak

Jhalak M. Kakkar

Dhanaraj Thakur

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seventh left, poses for photographs with chief executive officers of various AI groups during the AI Summit in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. (Indian Prime Minister's Office via AP)

A Multilingual Paradigm for AI Created by All, for All

Suzi Ragheb

Katherine Jin

Two grey internet patch cords with plastic connectors on a wooden table in a bright room. Concept of home network installation, high-speed wired connection, broadband and digital technology.

New York City Should Stop Paying Corporations to Widen the Digital Divide

Micron's $50 billion expansion project at their headquarters in Boise, Idaho, on April 10, 2026. (Photo by Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA)

Micron's $50 billion expansion project at their headquarters in Boise, Idaho, on April 10, 2026. (Photo by Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

What to Do If the AI Bubble Bursts

Sofia Olofsson

New Delhi: Commuters stranded in a traffic jam on Dr Zakir Hussain Marg, near Bharat Mandapam amid the ongoing AI Impact Summit, in New Delhi, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. (Karma Bhutia/PTI via AP)

The Multilingual AI Gap Is Not Closing. It Is Being Rebranded.

David Porteous

An vendor sells vegetables at a roadside stall in Sabji Mandi Bazar in Delhi, receiving payment on UPI Unified Payments Interface Phonepe. Shutterstock

An vendor sells vegetables at a roadside stall in Sabji Mandi Bazar in Delhi, receiving payment on UPI Unified Payments Interface Phonepe. 

No Digital Public Infrastructure Without Redress

Mateus Correia de Carvalho

Rachel Griffin

An image of the Digital Services Act website superimposed on a keyboard.

Who Speaks and Who is Heard: Civil Society’s Role in Shaping DSA Decisions

Mpho Primus

This image is a collage with a colourful Japanese vintage landscape showing a mountain, hills, flowers and other plants and a small stream. There are 3 large black data servers placed in the bottom half of the image, with a cloud of black smoke emitting from them, partly obscuring the scenery.

Deborah Lupton, "Servers in a Landscape" / 

Why Africa Needs an Ubuntu-Inspired AI Framework

Diana Enriquez

Illustrations of six data workers, working at computers in isolation from each other. Painted background includes hazy image of cubicles; digital overlay of glass fractures.

In Weak Job Market, Middle Managers Increasingly Forced to Feign AI Success

James O’Sullivan

Building blocks are overlayed with digital squares that highlight people living their day-to-day lives through windows. Some of the squares are accompanied by cursors.

How Algorithmic Systems Automate Inequality

Sushmita

Cooling pipes hug data servers, extracting water from a shared reservoir while people collect water from the same source, set against a background of eroded soil textures.

The Environmental Impact of Data Centers in Vulnerable Ecosystems by Gloria Mendoza / 

Mumbai’s Data Center Dreams Run on Coal and Inequality

Kevin De Liban

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA—MARCH 29, 2025: A person holds a 'Resist Billionaires' sign as protesters demonstrate against Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s involvement in Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiatives during a “Tesla Takedown” rally outside a Tesla dealership. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Austerity Intelligence

Ekene Anene

Amanda Parham

An abstract illustration depicting spying through a smartphone. Big surveillance eyes peek out from a woman's hair while she looks at her smartphone. 