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Should you buy local AI hardware in 2026? The honest answer
Should you buy local AI hardware in 2026 or stick with ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity? Here is the practical buyer’s guide.
 • Popular AI
The rise of culture-on-demand: reclaiming media from the intellectual property hogs
Open source generative AI is turning culture into something users can generate on demand, putting Hollywood, copyright, and IP business models under new…
 • Popular AI and Ben Geudens
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The worst people to “make AI safe”
Why allowing history’s most lethal gangs to regulate superintelligences is a recipe for disaster and why governments, and their moronic sycophants…
 • Ben Geudens
How AI "safety" becomes a license to exist
The era of the "unlicensed" developer is under direct fire. As the regulation moat around established AI players grows, what should AI developers do?
 • Popular AI
NIST wants comments on “secure AI agents.” Here’s why that should worry you
A NIST request for information on AI agent security looks harmless. In practice, it can shape procurement rules, liability norms, and future regulation.
 • Popular AI
The 180-minute memory hole: India’s digital guillotine
New rules force tech giants to choose between instant censorship or total legal destruction. India’s 180-minute takedown window is the ultimate warning…
 • Popular AI
UK Deepfake Law 2026: protection for victims, or a new excuse to scan everyone?
Here is what the UK Deepfake Law actually says, what the detection push really implies, and how citizens can defend themselves without surrendering…
 • Popular AI
The control layer on everything
There is no neutral “AI government.” There is only an administrative class hiding behind models it controls and updates without consent.
 • Ben Geudens
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