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Value Added

JS Tan

Value Added is a newsletter about the political economy of innovation.

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When AI Eats Software

Face Eater (2004) by Dana Schutz

We’re at another peak in the AI hype cycle. If the hype of the past few years was a rising tide that lifted all (tech) boats, what’s different now is that the technology for the first time since it debuted...

3 months ago
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From Platform Capitalism to the Cloud Business Model

My article with Kathleen Thelen, “Cloud Capitalism and the AI Transition,” is now out in Politics & Society! The paper actually came out in December, so this post is a bit overdue. I’ll blame some of that on a stretch of near-constant trave...

4 months ago
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Who gets to play in the cloud?

The Glory of Heaven (detail) (1752), Paul Troger

I recently attended a workshop about gov-tech relations in the age of digital capitalism and had a co-authored paper about the cloud computing sector circulated as part of a discussion about...

6 months ago
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Ghost Infrastructure

Ghost by Rachel Whiteread

Western coverage tends to frame China as an “AI boogeyman,” highlighting its breakthroughs (e.g., DeepSeek) and geopolitical ambitions (e.g., the “AI Plus” initiative) as a justification to plow ahead with AI adv...

6 months ago
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The rise of tech worker activism

I’m excited to share a new research article that I co-authored with Natalia Luka and Emily Mazo—two close friends, collaborators, and longtime interlocutors on everything related to labor in the US tech sector. The article draws from years...

7 months ago
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    PhD candidate @ MIT DUSP. Former software engineer. Research on labor and the political economy of innovation, with a focus on cloud and AI.

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