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America v China: who controls Asia’s internet?
Of a panel of 12 Asian countries, seven have a majority of Chinese-run cloud clusters, according to a study by Vili Lehdonvirta and colleagues at the Oxford Internet Institute.
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Exclusive: New Research Finds Stark Global Divide in Ownership of Powerful AI Chips
A new paper shows that GPUs are highly concentrated in only 30 countries in the world, with the U.S. and China far out ahead. Much of the world lies in what the authors call “Compute Deserts:” areas where there are no GPUs for hire at all.
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Will the United States ban TikTok?
The Al Jazeera ‘Counting the Cost’ programme interview Prof Vili Lehdonvirta about the potential US TikTok band and its economic and geopolitical impacts.
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Almost everything is in the cloud – and experts are worried
Just three companies—Amazon, Microsoft, and Google—command about two-thirds of cloud infrastructure. Professor Vili Lehdonvirta shares his insights on the rise of cloud technology and the power of the tech giants.
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‘It had just vanished’ – the shock when tech fails
Natalie Brown had built her blog into a thriving business over the course of a decade, pouring heaps of effort into it. Then it disappeared. In this article, Prof Vili Lehdonvirta shares his insights on the upside of cloud technology.
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The computing power behind AI
Behind great Artificial Intelligence, there is great computing power. Computing capacity is a much under-discussed aspect of the AI race, on which we tried to shed some light with Vili Lehdonvirta, professor at the Oxford Internet Institute.