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How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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AI is set to take all of our jobs. It will irrevocably transform our relationships – and it might even kill us all. These are some of the big claims made about artificial intelligence today. And they are claims that… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/7UDkyvw Why does anger seem to rule the world today? Pankaj Mishra traces our age of anger to the collision of Enlightenment promises of liberty and equality with empire, nationalism and capitalism. He asks what happens when those promises… more ›
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I put this lecture together in 2011, just before I left Pixar. It looks at all the mistakes we made while writing Toy Story 3, and the lessons learned in correcting those mistakes. 72 minutes. — more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/hX8AvqH Georgina Godwin and Tessa Szyszkowitz on pivotal elections in Germany, the latest Reform UK controversy and more. Plus: how the business model of London’s new art fair, Fair Play, puts artists first. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. September… more ›
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Much of the autonomous vehicle (AV) space is uncharted territory. However, at Waymo, with more than 200 million miles driven fully autonomously, we’re one of very few companies that can look to our past to illuminate our future. Our experience… more ›
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https://x.com/stevesi/status/2094197358624219395 more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/0BfGR4L Gina Raimondo, a former commerce secretary and governor, thinks A.I. will create plenty of jobs in the long run. She also thinks a poorly managed transition could tear the country apart. So she came up with a plan. … more ›
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Professor Francis Fukuyama, author of ‘In The Realm of The Last Man’, discusses his ‘End of History’ thesis, the state of democracy, US President Donald Trump, JD Vance, the Democratic Party, Vladimir Putin, the War in Ukraine and authoritarianism. Interview… more ›
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GPT-6 Astra achieves state-of-the-art results on benchmarks for long-running computer-use tasks across professions and desktop apps, which means anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you, fast. It’s also the best model for software engineering to… more ›