"US companies have sold $1.7tn of investment-grade bonds in 2025, a near-record sum stoked by a rush of borrowing to fund AI infrastructure that has spurred concerns over a debt glut."
in the wake of us v. google, i wrote for @techpolicypress.bsky.social how generative AI is not going to magically unseat a dominant firm like google: it's going to enable it to become even more dominant. news in the past 24 hours shows exactly this (see thread!) www.techpolicy.press/decision-in-...
Because the question that's more important than abstract sovereignty isn't how many companies Europe has. It's where the value they create actually ends up. Even when Europe builds its own AI, that value often flows elsewhere.
Follow here: euaipolicymonitor.substack.com/p/ai-soverei...
Re-up on this in light of the @404media.co story out today.
Investment-grade borrowers have issued $1.7tn of bonds this year, closing in on 2020’s Covid debt rush
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In response to WIRED’s request for comment about users being able to generate bikini deepfakes with ChatGPT, a spokesperson for OpenAI claims the company loosened some ChatGPT guardrails this year around adult bodies in nonsexual situations.”
I wrote about Iran's protests for @theatlantic.com: how AI manipulation and the suspicion of it is being weaponised to dismiss real footage of protests.
This piece draws on work from my stellar team at WITNESS and years of studying information controls in Iran and beyond.
