Publishers fight Big Tech with small local language models
Model Context Protocol enables LLMs to integrate local publishers’ hyperlocal knowledge into conversational AI, offering publishers a path to reclaim audience and value.
How Amazon turned our capitalist era of free markets into the age of technofeudalism | Yanis Varoufakis
Amazon operates as a technofeudal overlord, owning digital infrastructure that binds firms as vassals, extracts customer data, and enforces worker surveillance and algorithmic control.
The BBC is under threat like never before. This is how to save it | Pat Younge
Concentrated media power, disinformation technologies, and political legal threats endanger democratic information integrity and the BBC's independence.
Engaging with X/Twitter transfers power to its far-right owner; building independent power rather than persuading within the platform is the necessary response.