Big Tech’s debt that dare not speak its name – footnotes, fortunes, and a very long tab
Eventually, the bill comes due. It always does – though in Silicon Valley it arrives dressed as a footnote, slips past the auditors, and takes […]
Articles by Asha Lang
How Do People Really Use ChatGPT
The trouble with revolutions is that they rarely send a formal RSVP. They arrive mid-conversation, rearrange the furniture of daily life, and casually make themselves […]
The Illusion of AGI: Why LLMs Fall Short
In the summer of 2025, as OpenAI, Anthropic and Elon Musk’s xAI went rattling the tin for ever larger sums, their chiefs, no doubt, offered […]
Can AI tell a story with soul? The future of journalism may depend on how we answer that
Disruption has long been the calling card of the technology industry—especially when there’s a profit to be made. Now, with all the subtlety of a […]
Yes, AI Influencers are Real, and it’s Already a Six-Billion-Dollar Market
There are times in life when one wonders: Have we, as a species, taken the wrong exit on the highway to progress? And if you, […]
Forget Skynet. It’s all about the ennui and our our gentle, well-managed decay into an AI dystopia
The real apocalypse isn’t loud. It’s an automated system politely informing you that your services are no longer required. You know, when people think of […]
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta needs more ‘masculine energy.’ Two-thirds of his exec team are men. Bro, we’re good
Oh, Mark. It’s one thing to float in virtual reality with all the grace of a glitchy balloon, but quite another to suggest your multibillion-dollar […]
California’s crackdown on addictive social media feeds for minors is a game-changer. Did Australia jump the gun?
When it comes to shielding the impressionable from the hypnotic glow of social media, California and Australia are playing vastly different tunes. Australia, ever the […]
Five Eyes Wants to Disrupt Paths to Online Radicalisation. But who’s watching the detectives?
The Five Eyes alliance—Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada—once shrouded in the quiet confines of secrecy, now steps into the […]
Wilfully blind: How Instagram Ignored Warnings About Self-Harm
Where algorithms reign supreme, one might assume that the guardians of social media would have the good sense to protect their youngest and most vulnerable […]