Diving for pearls...
Signals
What Concha brought back
News, essays and reports from the sources Yasmim follows, each with a summary and, when she has written it, her take. What each category means →
Zeitgeist
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?”
Geopolitics & Cybersecurity
Why Africa needs its own AI off switch
Locally controlled AI could protect infrastructure like mobile money from AI-driven cyberthreats.
Geopolitics & Cybersecurity
Startups recalibrate Chinese AI for the West
Startups are adapting Chinese open-weight models for Western firms worried about censorship and security.
Zeitgeist
The UAE embraces AI for kindergartners
AI education becomes mandatory from kindergarten in the Emirates.
Dezeen
Art & Creativity
'If AI can do most of what an architect does, maybe we have defined the profession too narrowly'
An opinion on how AI is redrawing the edges of architecture.