Adam Satariano

As AI accelerates, governments are increasingly being left behind.

Adam Satariano and Cecilia Kang from The New York Times find, based on more than 20 interviews, that AI has made the gap between policymaking and technology one of the widest ever.

In Brussels, Ursula von der Leyen and her commissioners have yet to decide whether to ramp up regulation, given the possible economic and geopolitical costs if other countries do not follow.

Meanwhile, the AI Act, once hailed as a blueprint, has become a cautionary tale.

Kenyans wrote college essays for Americans.

Then came A.I. by Adam Satariano and Paul Mosier.

Nairobi, Kenya.

Teresios Bundy Teresios Bundy once symbolized the strange, life-changing opportunities the Internet provided.

But then AI arrived.

My colleague Adam Satariano, who covers tech for The Times, has been reporting from Kenya, where a once thriving digital gig economy is now seeing the bottom fall out.

He says that for years, it wasn't just enterprising young Kenyans who threw themselves into that economy.

The government pushed it too.