Tag: intellectual property

Pop Culture • August 23, 2026

Pop Mart’s Labubu Problem: Is the Stock Crash a Warning or a Reset?

Pop Mart turned Labubu into one of the strangest consumer success stories of the decade. The grinning, sharp-toothed character escaped the collectible-toy niche, invaded TikTok feeds, handbags, resale platforms and celebrity culture, and helped transform a Chinese blind-box company into a global consumer phenomenon. Now the market is asking an uncomfortable question: what happens to […]

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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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