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In late 2018, I joined Cloudflare, a company that provides security infrastructure to about a fifth of the web.

Last week, while traveling to Singapore as part of my MBA program, I ran into a familiar problem: data roaming charges.

Creators are starting to prepare for life without TikTok—a social media platform many rely on as their primary source of income.

It was an unsurprising outcome.

Earlier this month, AI safety and research company Anthropic announced that it was launching three new models for Claude, its generative AI assistant and family of large language models (LLMs).

Meta’s launch yesterday of its new social platform Threads represents a major step change in the evolution of social media.

There are two important prerequisites that any network needs to be successful: protocols and standards.

In his book Envisioning Real Utopias, the American sociologist Erik Olin Wright laid the foundations for a reconstruction of the core values for socio-economic progress.

If social media mentions alone were a predictor of box office success, Disney’s live-action Mulan would take the top spot — particularly in a time when many movie theaters across the world are shut down due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Last week, the publication of an open letter in Harper’s Magazine caused a bit of a stir.