ZAFI / Section 05

Culture

How the internet changes taste, language, community and the texture of daily life.

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Culture · 5 min read

Spotify’s AI assistant wants to replace the blank search box

Conversational discovery could make streaming feel personal again - or turn taste into another prompt-writing exercise.

By Leo Wren

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Culture

A friendlier algorithm is still an algorithm choosing the mood

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AI

Apple’s new Siri is finally leaving the demo room

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Technology

OpenAI’s hardware bet sounds stranger - and smarter - without a screen

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AI

Frontier AI needs a referee before the next crisis chooses one

Technology · 7 min

The browser wars are back, and the tab is no longer the point

AI agents are turning a familiar utility into the most contested layer in computing.

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Business · 6 min

New York’s data-centre pause turns AI’s appetite into a public question

AI infrastructure is moving from an engineering problem to a planning fight.

Illuminated server racks in a data centre

Security · 6 min

The phishing email now writes back

Defenders are building agents because attackers already are.

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