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The FTC just reminded John Deere what ownership means: when you buy a machine, you should be able…

Writing in April about John Deere “harvesting profits”, the story still seemed like one of those battles in which a company tries to…

IMAGE: A farmer repairs a green tractor in a field beside a glowing shattered digital padlock, symbolizing the right to repair

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Europe’s AI opportunity is not where everyone is looking

For the last two years, Europe has been asking itself a question that sounds strategic but may be profoundly misleading: how can we compete…

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Are data centers a good deal for the places that host them? (Spoiler alert)

AI does not exist in the ether; it doesn’t appear spontaneously; and, above all, it is not free. It has very specific, very physical, and…

IMAGE: A giant AI data center consumes books, articles, code, electricity, water, and public money while citizens watch the bill grow

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The web’s broken bargain: how AI ended the deal between publishers and platforms

For the last three decades, the web functioned according to a relatively simple agreement: you published something, others could link to…

IMAGE: An AI machine absorbs web pages and turns them into answers and ad revenue, while a creator receives no clicks or income

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South Korea is training half a million drone warriors. Here’s why that matters

Technological warfare has long been a matter of industrial might: the ability to produce expensive aircraft, sophisticated tanks, more…

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If 79% of experts can’t beat index-based trading, why would AI be any different?

The news that AI agents will soon be able to match human stock traders shouldn’t surprise anyone. Vlad Tenev, CEO of financial services…

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Symbolic stakes vs real power: the problem with Sam Altman’s 5%

OpenAI’s proposal to hand over 5% of its capital to the US government — presented as a way for Americans to share in the profits of AI — is…

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AI: new app, or new device?

The news that SpaceX showed investors a prototype AI device — thinner than an iPhone, with its own operating system and xAI technology —…

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The great AI rehiring: what Ford, Commonwealth Bank and IBM got wrong

Here’s how some organizations see AI: they sit employees down in front of an org chart, show them a shiny demo, and ask them to point out…

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The scale is tipping: human hours vs. machine tokens

We are in the early stages of a technological transition that is being misunderstood regarding two key aspects: the evolution of software…

Alt text: A developer faces a giant scale weighing human labor against glowing streams of AI tokens and code, suggesting the shifting economics of software development

Enrique Dans

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Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)

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