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September 2026

18 Sept Climate, Chips & Infrastructure A data centre's day, hour by hour 4 min 17 Sept The AI Race The AI boom is reaching places investors forgot to look 18 min 17 Sept Climate, Chips & Infrastructure The next AI race may be about electricity, not models 9 min 16 Sept Machines and Power The hidden workers teaching machines how to see 14 min 16 Sept Work After Automation What happens when a chatbot becomes your co-worker? 11 min 15 Sept The AI Race Small languages are building their own AI futures 13 min 15 Sept Machines and Power Who owns the data generated by ordinary life? 10 min 14 Sept AI & Everyday Life The pharmacist in Kurigram who became a triage system 9 min 14 Sept Machines and Power The procurement documents that show how a country buys surveillance 16 min 14 Sept The AI Race Two labs, one grid, and a city that was not consulted 8 min 13 Sept AI Across Bangladesh Gazipur built an AI cluster. Then the power went out. 12 min 13 Sept AI & Everyday Life The film industry that decided to label everything 9 min 13 Sept Work After Automation Translators did not disappear. Their rates did. 10 min 13 Sept The AI Race Chinese open-weight models are winning on price, not benchmarks 7 min 12 Sept Machines and Power Every photo you posted in 2011 is still working 15 min 12 Sept AI & Everyday Life Marriage brokers, matchmakers, and the model in between 11 min 12 Sept The AI Race The maintainer burnout behind half the AI stack 14 min 12 Sept Climate, Chips & Infrastructure The water bill a data centre does not have to publish 13 min 12 Sept Machines and Power Election officials are being sold AI they did not ask for 9 min 12 Sept The AI Race The quiet consolidation of the AI supply chain 6 min 11 Sept AI & Everyday Life A voice actor is suing over a performance she never gave 10 min 11 Sept AI Across Bangladesh The Mirpur annotators who unionised, and what happened next 11 min 11 Sept Work After Automation A union contract that treats a model as a piece of equipment 9 min 11 Sept AI & Everyday Life Your landlord may already be using AI to price your rent 12 min 10 Sept Climate, Chips & Infrastructure Chip makers are chasing cheap power to Bangladesh's economic zones 10 min 10 Sept Machines and Power The consent form nobody could read 9 min 10 Sept The AI Race What "open" means when the weights are free and the data is not 8 min 10 Sept AI & Everyday Life The school that banned AI, then quietly unbanned it 8 min 10 Sept Machines and Power When the regulator and the regulated share the same consultants 13 min 9 Sept AI Across Bangladesh Bangladesh is writing AI rules for a market it does not control 8 min 9 Sept AI & Everyday Life Synthetic anchors are reading the news on four Dhaka channels 11 min 9 Sept Work After Automation The rise of the prompt supervisor 8 min 8 Sept AI Across Bangladesh A model trained on Sundarbans field notes, by the people who wrote them 14 min 8 Sept The AI Race A public compute cluster, run like a library 12 min 8 Sept Climate, Chips & Infrastructure The grid operator who says no 8 min 7 Sept AI & Everyday Life The archive that refuses to be scraped 7 min 7 Sept Machines and Power What a data broker actually sells, line by line 7 min 6 Sept The AI Race The commons is not a licence. It is a maintenance budget. 9 min