Gino Diño
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AI Agents Now Outconsume Humans in Tokens, Fueling a Shift Toward Cheaper Chinese Models
Autonomous AI agents now generate five times more tokens than humans, pushing costs toward cheap Chinese models even as US labs still command most AI revenue. Autonomous AI agents now generate five times more tokens than humans, pushing costs toward cheap Chinese models even as US labs still command most AI revenue. Autonomous AI agents…
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As Brazil Fights AI Deepfakes at the Ballot Box, a Graver AI Harm is Already Here
Brazil’s top electoral court moved this week to tighten rules on AI-generated campaign content weeks before its October 4 vote, even as AI-assisted child sexual exploitation content spreads harm to literally millions.
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Displacement or Disruption? Manila’s Outsourcing Sector Faces Its AI Reckoning
In the Philippines, 12.7 million Filipino workers, more than one in four, hold jobs with some exposure to generative AI, the highest share in Southeast Asia. The same category of routine, entry-level digital work that labor researchers warn is disappearing is also the exact work a booming virtual-assistant industry claims to be moving past.
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Tokyo, Suwon, and China’s Multibillion-Dollar Bet on MLCCs
A global shortage of the capacitors that regulate power in AI servers has stretched delivery times for high-end parts to as long as ten months, with Samsung Electro-Mechanics and Japan’s Murata Manufacturing — the two dominant suppliers — both running near full capacity through 2027, according to reports and company disclosures. A global shortage of…
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AI Citations aren’t Earned — They’re Licensed, Zoned, & Occasionally Blocked
Reddit blocked AI crawlers from its entire domain on August 20, and within days its share of ChatGPT Search citations fell roughly 86%, from about 3.83% to 0.52%. Documentation and help-center pages jumped from 2% to 32% of ChatGPT’s citation mix; review sites like G2 and Capterra collapsed toward zero alongside Reddit.
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Japan Turns to Blockchain Settlement for Stocks & Government Bonds
Japan’s financial regulators are moving to build a national blockchain settlement network for stocks and government bonds, with the Financial Services Agency, Ministry of Finance and Bank of Japan (BOJ) launching a joint study group this summer and eyeing a development plan by early 2027.
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The Word Factories of Ningxia: Why China’s Telecoms Took a Profit Hit to Chase AI Compute
Call it the barrel-of-oil moment for generative AI. China’s domestic AI inference reportedly costs one-tenth to one-sixth of overseas equivalents; the Economic Daily frames the resulting token exports as the nation’s answer to being called “the world’s factory:” not a nation that ships hardware, but one that ships intelligence.
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The Great Hedge: Drugs, Debt, & the Direction AI is Going Everybody’s Waiting on
In Zurich, Washington, and Seoul, the people who set the price of money are making the same admission a Chinese biotech CEO just made about the price of a new drug: nobody knows yet whether artificial intelligence is the thing that saves the timeline or the thing that blows up the budget.
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BPA Sellers Can’t Sell ‘It Works’ Anymore: How Freelancers, Agencies, & Platform Vendors can Get Ahead of the Grading Curve
For sellers of Business Process Automation (BPA), it wouldn’t be surprising if they saw the automation labor market as a bit of an open bazaar. But analysis of trends is showing that it’s becoming more of a a filtration system: raw, undifferentiated talent pours in at the top, and only what can pass through progressively…
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How Indium Phosphide is Splitting the AI Supply Chain into China-Aligned & US-Aligned Lanes
China’s export-licensing grip on indium phosphide (InP), the crystal that makes AI data centers’ optical links possible, has pushed wafer prices up as much as 250% since Beijing added the material to its control list in February 2025. Washington is now drafting a mirror-image restriction of its own, on the Chinese-made transceivers that use it.…