Currents

Rongjiang, once one of China’s poorest counties, is turning smartphones, mass training, and collective organisation into a people-centred experiment in artificial intelligence.

Reading Marx dialectically is not a task generic AI can do — so Global South Insights built a system that retrieves the argument, not a summary of it.

Digital space is now national territory — and most of the Global South neither owns it nor can measure how much it is losing. A new index puts numbers to the dispossession.

Hallucination is not a defect. It is the predictable output of a training regime built to reward fluency over accuracy. The fix is not a better model. It is a different architecture.

Style is a specification, not a preference. A seven-layer stylistics framework turns ‘write like this’ into a repeatable engineering process.

The fundamental obstacle to entering an unfamiliar domain is not skill — it is language. Master the vocabulary, and in the age of LLMs, what can be spoken can be executed.

Most research institutes cannot afford a designer, Tricontinental built Pictorial — an AI system that turns a researcher’s article into infographics — so they no longer have to. The structural reasoning design demands is something…

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