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The Secret Weapon Against AI Dominance

The Secret Weapon Against AI Dominance

Published by Sam Flores

More than 90 lawsuits have been filed by creators against AI companies for copyright infringement. Authors, musicians, visual artists, and news publishers have all accused firms such as OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic of using their copyrighted works to train AI models without permission. (The Atlantic is involved in one such lawsuit, against the AI firm Cohere.) These cases are frequently framed as the defining fight over the future of creative labor and the entertainment industry as a whole. As one of these lawsuits put it, artists are seeking to end “infringement of their rights before their professions are eliminated by a computer program powered entirely by their hard work.” But the future of creative labor will more likely be decided through a different question within copyright law, one that has received far less attention: To what extent should AI-generated works receive copyright protection at all? In a 2024 case, Thaler v. Perlmutter, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia held that a work generated autonomously by an AI system cannot be protected by …

Amazon, Meta join fight to end Google Pay, PhonePe dominance in India

Amazon, Meta join fight to end Google Pay, PhonePe dominance in India

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Amazon and Meta are among the big companies set to lobby India’s payments body over the dominance of Walmart-owned PhonePe and Google Pay in the country’s fast-growing instant payments network. Executives representing platforms including Amazon Pay, WhatsApp, CRED, MobiKwik, and Flipkart’s Super.money are scheduled to meet the National Payments Corporation of India on Thursday, TechCrunch has learned. The body operates the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), India’s instant payments system that processes billions of transactions each month. The meeting comes over a year after India deferred plans to cap the market share of UPI apps at 30% until December 31, 2026, a measure that would have limited any single app’s share of UPI transactions. That delay has effectively allowed PhonePe and Google Pay to retain their dominant positions, intensifying concerns among players with smaller shares about their ability to compete. PhonePe and Google Pay combined accounted for roughly 80% of the 22.6 billion transactions on the UPI network in March, data from NPCI shows. That scale far outpaces rivals such as Paytm, Flipkart’s Super.money, CRED, Amazon …

Bruce is missing his upper beak, but it has not stopped him from dominance

Bruce is missing his upper beak, but it has not stopped him from dominance

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Even without an upper beak, one bird in New Zealand is defying odds at the top of the pecking order. Bruce is a rescued kea (Nestor notabilis) parrot that is the alpha male among his species living at the Willowbank Wildlife Reserve in Christchurch, New Zealand. Scientists believe that he made it to the top due to his own unique fighting technique—beak jousting.  “He [Bruce] achieved this status by himself with the aid of a completely novel fighting technique—a jousting thrust with his exposed lower beak—that beak-intact kea cannot replicate,” Alexander Grabham a biologist Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha / University of Canterbury in New Zealand, said in a statement.  Grabham is the co-author of a study published today in the journal Current Biology that describes Bruce’s beak jousting and unlikely rise to an alpha male. Meet Bruce the beak jouster In 2013, conservationists found Bruce as a juvenile, already missing his upper beak. He was nursed back to …

After 27 years in power, Welsh Labour’s dominance may soon be over

After 27 years in power, Welsh Labour’s dominance may soon be over

Published by Sam Flores

Welsh Labour is in unfamiliar territory. While winning elections in Wales had become routine since 1922, the upcoming Senedd (Welsh parliament) election has thrown the party into uncharted waters, with the prospect of finishing a distant third. So much is new about this election. The Senedd has been expanded from 60 to 96 members, alongside the introduction of a new electoral system which changes how members are elected, making this a contest like no other in the devolution era. But it is not just the Senedd that is transforming. More than a century of Labour dominance now appears under serious threat, with Plaid Cymru and Reform UK emerging as beneficiaries of a potentially seismic realignment. Read more: Wales is overhauling its democracy – here’s what’s changing Polling suggests a stark outcome: around 12 seats for the party that has dominated Welsh political life, down from 29 at the last election. And that’s despite the Senedd’s expansion. In trying to breathe new life into the party, Welsh Labour claimed in late 2025 to be ushering in …

How the Iran war set Beijing up for global clean energy dominance – POLITICO

How the Iran war set Beijing up for global clean energy dominance – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

Thailand imports solar panels from China but also Sweden and elsewhere, he said. Ultimately, Nitithanprapas said Thailand wants to create domestic production using foreign direct investment so it doesn’t have to rely on any particular country. That’s a common view in much of Southeast Asia, where the creation of local solar manufacturing and EV plants won’t happen overnight. “In the short term, most countries don’t have a viable alternative to Chinese clean-tech supply chains,” said Vicky Janita, an analyst at Rystad Energy.  Even if they were to buy more supplies from countries like India, which has grown its solar panel manufacturing capacity, those producers still rely heavily on China for wafers and other parts of the supply chain, she said. That doesn’t mean they aren’t also trying different strategies to reduce that dependence and build their economies. Many countries in Southeast Asia have welcomed Chinese investment in domestic production, through both carrots, such as tax breaks, or sticks, such as Indonesia’s export ban on raw nickel. Similarly, Brazil is imposing tariffs on EVs, forcing Chinese …

Trump’s race to the moon is about dominance over China, not discovery

Trump’s race to the moon is about dominance over China, not discovery

Published by Sam Flores

On Friday, the crew of the Artemis II mission will splash down on Earth after its historic 10-day flyby of the Moon. President Donald Trump is celebrating the achievement as a patriotic win “beyond the stars” for the United States, even as funding for future scientific endeavors sits on a knife-edge thanks to his administration’s priorities. “America is going back to the Moon,” Trump posted to his social network Truth Social on April 1. “America doesn’t just compete, we DOMINATE, and the whole world is watching.” Speaking with the Artemis II astronauts on Monday evening, Trump said their mission had made the U.S. “the hottest country in the world.” “America will be second to none in space and everything else that we’re doing, and we will continue to lead the whole thing,” he said. Trump’s positive mood and nationalistic championing go far beyond the scientific successes of Artemis II. They indicate the president’s ambitions for the U.S. to dominate space, with specific focus on the moon. In its recently released 2027 budget, the Trump administration requested …

Cambridge men defeat Oxford to extend era of dominance

Cambridge men defeat Oxford to extend era of dominance

Published by Sam Flores

Our Dark Blue boat got off to a strong start, edging out to a 2ft lead past the boat houses. But the Light Blues took full advantage of their early bend, and between the Black Buoy and Craven Cottage, got almost a length of clear water in blustery conditions. At the milepost, they were 6.3 seconds ahead. In contrast to most Boat Races, and perhaps a hint for today, our coxes had different interpretations of where the stream is on the stretch to Hammersmith. We were wide apart, and there was none of the gladiatorial frenzy of our dead heat two years ago. (The men’s veterans still managed to engineer a clash, however, in a dramatic race which saw the lead change twice). With cox Joe Gellett from the 2024 Blue Boat urging us on, we did not lose our self-belief. “They’re not moving away!” he cried, and we believed him, finally settling into a long and powerful rhythm in flatter water.  From Harrods Furniture Depository onwards, with the bend now in our favour, we …

Has BRICS given up on challenging Western economic dominance? | Politics

Has BRICS given up on challenging Western economic dominance? | Politics

Published by Sam Flores

Jim O’Neill, the economist who coined the term ‘BRIC’ 25 years ago, argues that the group is losing its relevance. At its peak, the BRICS coalition of economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – was seen as a serious attempt to move away from the United States dollar and the domination of Western economic institutions like the World Bank, Group of Seven (G7), and International Monetary Fund (IMF). But BRICS members have different political agendas, and new forces are at play, argues economist Jim O’Neill, a member of Britain’s House of Lords. O’Neill, who coined the term “BRIC” 25 years ago, tells host Steve Clemons that the US’s economic policies may be the driver of its own decline, coupled with the economic rise of China and India. Published On 22 Feb 202622 Feb 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Source link

Breaking down figure skater Ilia Malinin’s dominance on the ice

Breaking down figure skater Ilia Malinin’s dominance on the ice

Published by Sam Flores

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Mark Carney, a prime minister seeking to free Canada from US dominance

Mark Carney, a prime minister seeking to free Canada from US dominance

Published by Sam Flores

Canada has long been portrayed as overshadowed by its American neighbor. In a famous metaphor, Pierre Elliott Trudeau – prime minister from 1968 to 1979 and again from 1980 to 1984 – summed it up as early as 1969: “Living next to you [the United States] is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.” In 2026, the beast is loud and destructive. But the Canadian neighbor is now looking to leave the bed. In today’s world, according to Prime Minister Mark Carney at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 20, quoting Greek historian Thucydides, “The strong do what they can and the weak must suffer what they must.” Canada is searching for a third way to assert itself vis-à-vis dominant powers at a time when the international order is in disarray. “His words captured a reality that Canadians felt but didn’t necessarily express, which can be comforting,” said Asa …