Meta: Back from the brink

Meta is using AI to boost its ad-targeting systems. This helped it bounce back from the impact of Apple’s privacy changes, but uncertainties remain

Code Red

ChatGPT presents a significant threat to Alphabet’s Google. It’s caused it to issue the first “code red” warning to a single product in a decade.

Should tech bosses be sent to jail?

A new proposed amendment in the Online Safety Bill could mean tech executives responsible for the harms of children could face jail time. Will it work?

Boris Johnson tops MP donations after receiving £1 million donation

Although his predecessor, Theresa May, still tops the leaderboard for total outside earnings declared by MPs

Sensemaker: Party on

What just happened

Big Tech job cuts: a silver lining?

The tech states misread demand during the pandemic and hired hundreds of thousands of staff. Now, as the pandemic is replaced by a recession, over 150,000 tech jobs are at risk. The question is, where will all the tech workers go?

Caymans carry-on

A Caribbean tax haven has made some influential friends

Hancock’s crypto hankering

The former health secretary is institutionally into digital currencies

Meta’s Trump card

Trump’s suspension from Meta platforms expires this Saturday. The company must rule on whether to extend or lift the suspension. Here’s why that decision is so important.

Gambolling in the Metaverse

Post-Twitter

Is Elon Musk’s Twitter dying or just getting started?

Trial by recession

Amazon and others have joined Meta in announcing thousands of job cuts as they shrink to fit a new set of economic norms.

Living in a heating world: lessons from the global South

Plastic: can Africa avoid making the West’s mistakes?

Defeat in Coventry

Amazon has narrowly avoided a reckoning.

The bot issue

Should all platforms have to measure and disclose data on how many of their users aren’t real? None of them do.

Why big tech is breaking into healthcare

Since the pandemic began, the tech states have accelerated their investment in healthcare –  developing wearables, driving breakthroughs and acquiring whole businesses.

Big little budget

What’s in Kwasi Kwarteng’s “mini budget”? And will it have the impact it’s meant to? The experts are sceptical.

The endless scrolls and the battle for short-form video

Last week Facebook reassigned its “product experimentation” division to focus exclusively on one thing: short-form video. 

Non-fungible abuse material – the “disaster situation” for NFTs

The NFT space is rife with harmful and explicit content, which – as per the function of NFTs – can never be deleted. While Microsoft bans them, Meta embraces them.

Is Meta collapsing?

It’s not looking good for Mark Zuckerberg’s company

A decade in the shade?

For the first time ever, the combined revenue of major technology companies is falling. Could this be the beginning of the end for some of the tech states?

The beauty and the waste

The beauty of Apple’s design is at risk – it has lost a legendary designer and is locked in battle over unsightly charging cables

The Big Tech Short: for how long can investors win on big losses?

Some bold investors have bet against Big Tech. Are they in for a windfall?

Battle in Staten Island

Amazon is trying to stop its workers unionising. Why?

Banning big money

In the US, politicians are big on investing in big tech. That might be about to change

Meta “astroturfed” TikTok

Is Meta’s campaign to disparage TikTok a legitimate public affairs strategy? Or an unethical smear campaign, typical of Meta’s playbook for dealing with rivals?

Sensemaker: Billion-dollar bet

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Colombia’s AI Strategy

Alexandra Mousavizadeh and Sebastian Hervas-Jones spoke to Victor Munoz, Director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency of Colombia, and Armando Guio, IADB consultant in AI policy. Here is a summary of what was discussed