Every dollar that enters the financial system carries an implicit assumption: that it was earned legitimately. Anti-money laundering exists because that assumption doesn’t hold on…
Vikram Desai10 min readFor nearly eight years, a small team of former ISRO scientists in Hyderabad worked toward a single moment. On the morning of July 18, that…
Ethan Brooks5 min readDatabricks just did something few private companies manage even once: raise its valuation by tens of billions of dollars twice in the same year. On…
Ethan Brooks5 min readFor two years, AI companies scraped the open web largely unchallenged, building the training data behind chatbots and search tools out of journalism, reference works,…
Ethan Brooks6 min readFor most of the current AI boom, the conversation about bottlenecks centered on chips — who has enough GPUs, and who’s waiting for more. That…
Ethan Brooks6 min readBoth of the world’s dominant app stores are under growing pressure this year over what they’re allowing AI-powered apps to do — and, in a…
Ethan Brooks5 min readFor most of the smartphone era, “luxury” meant precious materials: solid gold casings, sapphire crystal displays, hand-stitched leather, diamond embellishments. Craftsmanship and exclusivity did the…
Ethan Brooks5 min readThree years ago, the United Arab Emirates was best known internationally as an oil-wealthy business and tourism hub. Today, it’s being described by analysts as…
Ethan Brooks6 min readIntroduction While OpenAI’s ChatGPT remains unavailable in mainland China, a Beijing-based startup has spent the past three years building what’s become one of the country’s…
Ethan Brooks5 min readSomewhere right now, a small business is waiting three months for a loan. A family is watching almost 7% of their remittance money disappear into…
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