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Hormuz crisis exposes who really owns the internet

Hormuz crisis exposes who really owns the internet

Signals:

  • Hyperscaler ownership of subsea cables has created a governance vacuum vulnerable to state intervention.
  • Geographic leverage over critical digital infrastructure is now a primary tool for sovereign coercion.
  • Infrastructure neutrality is a myth; physical internet assets are increasingly subject to geopolitical control.
Economic growth's end triggers collective grief and derangement

Economic growth's end triggers collective grief and derangement

Surplus Energy EconomicsSurplus Energy Economics·5 May 2026·#323: They first make mad | Surplus Energy Economics - STRESS & GRIEF AT THE END OF GROWTH Foreword Economic growth is generally understood as a process that delivers a material betterment of living standards over time. But growth has two other vir…

Signals:

  • Economic growth has ended, forcing society to confront the consequences of past mistakes.
  • Rising energy costs and resource depletion are driving a permanent, systemic economic contraction.
  • Collective denial of post-growth reality is fueling dangerous financial instability and social derangement.
Chrome secretly installs 4 GB Gemini Nano without user consent

Chrome secretly installs 4 GB Gemini Nano without user consent

·4 May 2026·Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy! - Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.

Signals:

  • Silent 4 GB AI model installs create significant legal, regulatory, and compliance risks.
  • Massive, non-consensual data distribution generates substantial, reportable environmental and carbon footprint liabilities.
  • Deceptive design patterns regarding AI features undermine user trust and violate data-protection obligations.

Interpret the future

Key narrative axes which Memia is tracking relating to Artificial Intelligence trends and impacts

Is it an AI Bubble?

There is no AI investment bubble

AI companies continue to justify their vast valuations and continue to raise capital. Valuations do not collapse suddenly.

The AI investment bubble will burst imminently

The gigantic amounts of money flowing into AI companies in 2022-2025 is seen not to generate returns and AI company valuations collapse very soon.

AGI Centralisation vs. Democratisation

Corporate Concentration

AGI development concentrates in a few powerful entities - governments and large tech companies - with massive resource requirements creating insurmountable barriers to entry.

Open Source Democratisation

AGI development democratizes through open-source initiatives, distributed computing, and accessible tools that enable widespread participation and innovation.

AGI Safety Alignment Progress

Robust Solutions

Robust, verified alignment solutions are developed and thoroughly tested before AGI deployment, ensuring AI systems reliably pursue intended goals and values.

Minimal Safeguards

Minimal safeguards are implemented due to competitive pressures and technical challenges, leaving significant alignment problems unsolved at AGI arrival.

AGI Regulatory Environment

Global Coordination

Strong international governance frameworks emerge with coordinated policies, standards, and oversight mechanisms for AGI development and deployment.

Fragmented Landscape

Fragmented regulatory landscape develops with inconsistent national policies and AI development havens undermining global coordination efforts.

AGI Hardware Requirements

New Breakthrough Computing Technologies

AGI requires quantum, photonic, thermodynamic or other breakthrough computing technologies, creating additional technical barriers and development timelines.

Existing Architectures

AGI emerges through scaling existing semiconductor architectures and optimizing current computing paradigms without fundamental hardware breakthroughs.