Tag: Digital Economy

Finance • September 5, 2026

The Dot-Com Bubble: Who Died, Who Won, and Could It Happen Again?

The dot-com bubble is usually remembered as a story about stupidity. Investors throwing money at companies with no profits. Startups adding “.com” to their names. Twenty-somethings becoming paper millionaires. Pets.com spending heavily to sell pet food online. Venture capital chasing almost anything connected to the internet. Then, in 2000, gravity returned. But that version of […]

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AI Explained • August 8, 2026

AI Training Data: The Great Pillage of the Internet

The generative AI boom did not begin with a blank page. It was built on decades of human work: articles, photographs, videos, software code, forum discussions, product reviews, personal stories and countless other fragments of digital culture. Together, that material became AI training data. Most of it was not created for machine learning. Developers answered […]

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