Rebel Roulette

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Good morning 🌥️ Silicon Valley Twitter (still can’t call it X, but our lawyers keep calling) was in disarray this past week after, despite all the open runways, coddling, and tax cuts the U.S. government offered Big Tech over the past few years to ensure America’s dominance of the AI arms race, a Chinese company released a model that allegedly outperforms most of what is on offer from the American companies. At a fraction of America’s budget. As a side project. We’d laugh at America (okay, we laughed a little) if this wasn’t likely a zero-sum game that ends with all of us subservient to machines.

—Gloria Mbabazi, Shem Opolot

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