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• Journalist Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI & the "Quasi-Religious" Push for Artificial Intelligence

  4 de julio, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  As part of our July Fourth special broadcast, we continue our extended interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The book documents the rise of OpenAI and how the AI industry is leading to a new form of colonialism. “One of the things that (…)

• "Empire of AI": Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World

  4 de julio, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  In our July Fourth special broadcast, we revisit our interview with longtime technology reporter Karen Hao, author of the new book Empire of AI, which unveils the accruing political and economic power of AI companies — especially Sam Altman’s OpenAI. Her reporting uncovered the exploitation of (…)

• "What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech

  4 de julio, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, Douglass gave one of his most famous speeches, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of (…)

• GOP Budget Bill Slashes Medicaid for Millions, Cuts Taxes for the Rich, Funds ICE at Historic Levels

  3 de julio, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  As we broadcast, the House was soon set to vote on the so-called big, beautiful bill before the July 4 deadline imposed by President Trump. Should the House pass the legislation, the bill would be sent to Trump’s desk to be signed into law. The bill massively increases funding for ICE, cuts $1 (…)

• EXCLUSIVE: Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian Activist Jailed by ICE for 104 Days, in First Live Interview

  3 de julio, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  In his first live broadcast interview since being released from ICE detention, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil tells Democracy Now! about his experience behind bars, the ongoing threat of deportation that hangs over him and why he continues to speak out against the U.S.-backed Israeli war on (…)