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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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Saudi Arabia’s futuristic megaproject Neom has come to a standstill, as the extraordinary costs of the planned city have collided with financial reality. After sinking more than $50 billion into Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s dreams of a sci-fi… more ›
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Sam Altman has spent his career at the intersection of startups, investing and artificial intelligence. He says he was fascinated by AI as a child in St. Louis, studied it in college and eventually helped start OpenAI in 2015 after… more ›
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Jeffrey Sachs delivers a blistering assessment of Donald Trump, arguing that the president’s leadership and use of power raise serious concerns about the state of American politics. Sachs describes Trump in deeply critical terms and argues that the larger problem… more ›
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada has suspended trade negotiations with the United States after talks failed to produce a new agreement. Carney rejected Washington’s latest terms as unfair and uneconomic while defending Canadian sovereignty and key industries. The… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/Cq1TLAz What happens when a revolutionary movement takes control of the world’s most vital waterway, bringing global oil shipping to a halt and sparking war with an empire? It’s not the Strait of Hormuz, but the Suez Crisis of… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/OYidEMg George Dyson – historian, boat maker, and volunteer Staff Historian at Radiant Earth – returns for his fourth appearance to discuss The Tale of the Big Computer, written by Hannes Alfvén in 1966 under the pseudonym Olof Johannesson.… more ›
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They are hardly prepared for the new system. https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/15/party-democracy-political-system-participation-membership-leaders-elections-voting/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=cGFydHktZGVtb2NyYWN5LXBvbGl0aWNhbC1zeXN0ZW0tcGFydGljaXBhdGlvbi1tZW1iZXJzaGlwLWxlYWRlcnMtZWxlY3Rpb25zLXZvdGluZw==&pid=PNIhHwPfesawrtd&tpcc=fpl_pod more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/Nbri2m1 This week on Sinica, I sit down with the writer Pallavi Aiyar — at her own dining table in Beijing, where in recent months I’ve been the lucky beneficiary of her and her husband Julio’s legendary hospitality. Pallavi… more ›