How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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Listen: https://ift.tt/gVvtLU5 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is operating in an unprecedented way during US President Donald Trump’s second term. The agency has existed for over 20 years, but now operates as a masked force. Imposters posing as agents have… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/CJwxWiG Since the 1980s, Brett Christophers wrote recently in the LRB, ‘firms have made vast amounts of money by sending the rich world’s waste to the global South’ – hazardous waste at first, joined more recently by discarded electronics, clothes… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/6XuEQOf Argentina’s Javier Milei needs dollars to keep his economic overhaul on track. The Trump administration’s financial support buys him time but doesn’t solve the problem of what to do with the peso. Argentina’s currency trades in a band… more ›
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The European Commission has proposed changes weakening EU privacy legislation and delaying parts of the AI Act to make the bloc more competitive globally. https://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changes more ›
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Welcome to @WeAreJazz Experience a historical Persian melody reimagined as 1-hour smooth jazz . “Aghrabe Zolfe Kajet” (عقرب زلف کجت), attributed to Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (1831–1896), is one of Iran’s most enduring romantic poems. Originally set in the Persian… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/qW50kcE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – MBS – will be welcomed at the White House on his first visit to Washington since the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi led to global outrage. MBS has always denied involvement… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/rnyGxQv Artificial intelligence isn’t alive. But our belief that it is may be the most dangerous illusion of all. Tech leaders talk about AI as if it thinks for itself. But that fantasy hides a more nuanced story about… more ›