Kota Has Half the Students It Used To. The AI Tutoring Apps Are Selling Something Else
The popular story — that Byju’s collapse spawned dozens of new test-prep apps — doesn’t survive the numbers: Kota lost more than […]
Month: September 2026
Meta Paid to Finish a Lennon Documentary. The Family’s Consent Came as a Letter, Not a Contract
At Cannes 2026 Steven Soderbergh premiered «John Lennon: The Last Interview» as a Special Screening. Roughly 10% of its imagery was generated […]
A Spray Drone 200 km From Nairobi: Flying It Is the Easy Part
Chinese agricultural drones from DJI Agras and XAG are sold across sub-Saharan Africa, carrying increasingly sophisticated onboard perception and mapping software. But […]
Ninety Thousand AI Tracks a Day, One Percent of Plays: Deezer’s Real Number Is the Other One
On 21 July 2026 Deezer said more than half of its daily new-music deliveries, at a June peak, were fully AI-generated. Those […]
Marapi Is Not Merapi: Indonesia’s Lahar Warnings Run on Geophones, Not on a Predictive Model
The May 2024 mud flood came off Marapi in West Sumatra, not Merapi in Java — two different volcanoes, two different warning […]
In Kaitaia the Licence Came Before the Model: Who Is Building Speech Recognition for te reo Māori
Te Hiku Media, an iwi broadcaster in New Zealand’s Far North, collected over 300 hours of speech in ten days and locked […]
Three Images Out of Twelve Million: The Real Bill for Getty’s London Case Against Stability AI
On 4 November 2025 London’s High Court decided the first UK case on generative AI and intellectual property. Getty Images dropped its […]
China’s First AI Music PhD Dropped the Harmony Exam. It Now Asks for Code
The Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, not Shanghai, launched China’s first doctorate in musical artificial intelligence in 2019 — and it […]
India’s Courts Made the Singing Voice an Asset. Nobody Has Put a Price on It Yet
Since 2024 Indian courts have issued a string of interim injunctions treating a performer’s voice as a protected attribute — Arijit Singh, […]
One Scroll Out of Forty-Five: The Real Scoreboard of the Vesuvius Challenge
Since 2023 the Vesuvius Challenge has paid out $1,868,000 to read the carbonized scrolls of Herculaneum without opening them. On 25 June […]