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DRAFT and WORK IN PROGRESS Over the past few months, we've been running interviews with founders and business owners across Grey Bruce and the surrounding region. Not to pitch them. Not to validate a product idea. Just to listen . We wanted to understand what's actually happening for people running businesses in rural Canada. What's working. What's not . What keeps coming up — not in theory, but in real conversations with real operators. We've talked to early-stage founders,

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Are Silicon Valley's Tech Giants Building a New Colonial Power Structure? Artificial intelligence evokes futuristic innovation, streamlined efficiency, and boundless progress. Yet beneath the polished interfaces and groundbreaking algorithms lurks a troubling question: has, or is AI becoming a form of modern colonialism, driven by resource exploitation, labor abuses, and environmental harm? As AI companies achieve trillion-dollar valuations and their technologies infiltrate e

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OpenAI DevDay 2023 Quick Summary The keynote at OpenAI Dev Day presented by Sam Altman covered the progress of OpenAI over the past year, including the launch of ChatGPT and GPT-4, as well as new capabilities such as voice and vision for ChatGPT. OpenAI announced the launch of GPT-4 Turbo with significant improvements and new features aimed at developers. The event highlighted the impact of OpenAI's technology on various users and introduced new pricing models to make the tec

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