Signals, trends and readings from outside the usual centres.

Playfool spotlights hidden digital labour in data centre cleaning game at the V&A

Visitors to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London vacuum digital dust from an overheating data server in game installation ‘The Server’ by design-duo Playfool. The post Playfool spotlights hidden digital labour in data centre cleaning game at the V&A appeared first on Dezeen .

Perrier-Jouët and Iris van Herpen partnership celebrates “biological processes that shape life”

Champagne house Perrier-Jouët has unveiled a creative collection with designer Iris van Herpen that draws on art nouveau design, soundscapes and the “invisible forces that shape the natural world”. As part of the partnership, Van Herpen created Symphonic Bloom, a sculptural piece crafted from silk and recycled 22-carat gold. The collectable sculpture was designed to […] The post Perrier-Jouët and Iris van Herpen partnership celebrates “biological processes that shape life” appeared first on Dezeen .

AI models cost more when you don't use English

Some languages need many more tokens to process, which raises costs and shrinks usable context for their speakers.

Yasmim: “How racist that can be?”

Conflict in the Red Sea is forcing cloud giants to find a new route for the internet

War around Yemen is pushing Google and Meta to reroute the subsea cables that carry the internet.

Startups recalibrate Chinese AI for the West

Startups are adapting Chinese open-weight models for Western firms worried about censorship and security.

A rare strike in Taiwan exposes labor unrest beneath the global AI rush

Chip workers organizing in Taiwan show discontent over how AI-boom profits are shared.