Community-Controlled Infrastructure

Riley and Casey explore technology and society in rural communities. Today's focus: Community-Controlled Infrastructure. NEWS ROUNDUP: We break down SD73 adds new accessible school bus to increase equitable field trip transportation and I embedded myself in a vibe coding team at Gemini's AI hackathon in Singapore. Building an app in 7 hours takes real work., plus 1 more stories, and explore what these developments mean for communities like ours. RURAL CONNECTIONS: Deep dive into community-controlled infrastructure, discussing how rural and remote communities can thoughtfully adopt and adapt emerging technologies. Hosts: Riley (Tech systems thinker with rural roots) and Casey (Community development focus). Sources: 1. CFJC Today Kamloops: SD73 adds new accessible school bus to increase equitable fi... 2. Business Insider: I embedded myself in a vibe coding team at Gemini's AI hacka... 3. GN AI ML Infrastructure: Tarabut Acquires Servable To Build AI-Native Financial Infra... 4. GN AI ML Infrastructure: Meta’s $65 Billion AI Gamble: When Infrastructure Spending O... 5. GN AI ML Infrastructure: Oracle Plans to Raise $50 Billion to Expand Cloud Infrastruc... 6. TechCrunch: AI layoffs or ‘AI-washing’? 7. GN AI ML Infrastructure: Arista Networks: The Critical Infrastructure Powering the AI... 8. GN AI ML Infrastructure: Corning, Meta secure $6bn alliance to supercharge AI fibre s... 9. Neowin: NVIDIA CEO says $100 billion investment in OpenAI was never ... 10. GN AI ML Infrastructure: Arrow Electronics Earnings: A Litmus Test for AI Infrastruct... 11. GN AI ML Infrastructure: Budget 2026–27: Tax holiday for foreign cloud companies sign... 12. NYT Business: Indonesia Lifts Ban on Grok After New Assurances From X Corp 13. GN AI ML Infrastructure: How Cybersecurity Infrastructure Could Determine America’s A... 14. GN AI ML Infrastructure: The Race to Build New AI Infrastructure 15. GN AI ML Infrastructure: Ciena: Riding The Second Wave Of AI Infrastructure Growth --- Credits --- Theme Song: Cariboo Signals by Sumo AI (suno.com) Content Curation & Script: Claude (Anthropic) TTS Voices: OpenAI TTS API Cover Art: ChatGPT (OpenAI) Podcast Coordination: Erich Zirnhelt