By Amy Castor and David Gerard Part I: the history of Northern Data Part II: Northern Data’s peculiar partnership with Tether Just as Northern Data was putting together its artificial intelligence IPO get-rich scheme, two former executives of its US subsidiary, CEO Joshua Porter and CFO Gulsen Ka…
This is finally out, and not before time! [Foreign Policy, paywalled] That was originally my placeholder headline, which I was sure they’d replace with something punchier. Evidently it was up to the task. $5-and-up patrons will have read my original submitted version of this story nine days ago. Th…
We’ve decided to do something nice for the lovely people who send us money every month just to write good. If you’re a $5-or-more monthly subscriber on Amy’s or David’s Patreon, we invite you to join our video Q&A! We’ll be doing this via Zoom on Thursday, August 8, at 16:00 UTC — that’s 9 am PST, …
Proton Mail is a privacy-focused email provider. We wrote last week on Pivot to AI about Proton Mail adding an AI writing assistant and many users’ sheer horror that Proton was going this way. A lot of Proton Mail users insisted it would be fine. Then yesterday, Proton added a bitcoin wallet. In 20…
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