How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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Debt is the almost singular through line behind every major financial crisis. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/andrew-ross-sorkin-lesson-1929/684546/ more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/F7wOeSp In the second episode of our two-part miniseries on the future of entertainment, Derek goes from Hollywood to NYC to understand why Broadway musicals are in trouble. "With the cost of staging song-and-dance spectacles skyrocketing and audiences drawn… more ›
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In the aftermath of the “AI boom,” this report examines how the push to integrate AI products everywhere grants AI companies – and the tech oligarchs that run them – power that goes far beyond their deep pockets. https://ainowinstitute.org/publications/research/ai-now-2025-landscape-report more ›
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In order to understand the profound transformations, and boundless potential, unleashed by artificial intelligence, we need to expand our own intellectual horizons into the realms of history, the natural world, and even ancient mythology. https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/making-sense-of-the-ai-revolution/ more ›
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AI capex is so big that it’s affecting economic statistics, boosting the economy, and beginning to approach the railroad boom https://paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai-capex-ate-the-economy/ more ›
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Of all the riddles wrapped in the digital wallets sending funds to President Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial crypto business, a little-known entity last month became the biggest. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/trumps-100-million-crypto-mystery-man-2025-07-11/ more ›
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In response to pressure from its payment processors, itch.io had a broad swath of adult content on its platform targeted and removed. https://www.theverge.com/games/715299/itchio-games-delisting-payment-processor-paypal more ›