I write about the political economy of AI: who pays for it, who gets paid, and who sets the terms.
The recurring threads: how publishers and creators get compensated when AI systems train on their work, and the licensing infrastructure that still doesn’t exist; what AI actually costs, from DeepSeek’s price cuts to the end of flat-rate subscriptions; the memory and infrastructure race behind coding agents; and how algorithmic hiring screens are reshaping access to work.
I’m Leandro Oliva. The question I keep returning to — and am now building on — is how independent publishers get paid in the AI era.
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