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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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Listen: https://ift.tt/m4ePpOd Paris Marx is joined by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna to discuss the harms of generative AI, how the industry keeps the public invested while companies flounder under the weight of unmet promises, and what people can… more ›
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Today, we’re introducing the next generation of Claude models: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, setting new standards for coding, advanced reasoning, and AI agents. Claude Opus 4 is the world’s best coding model, with sustained performance on complex,… more ›
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The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next. AI’s integration into our lives is the most significant shift in online life in… more ›
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Last month ChatGPT got a major upgrade. As far as I can tell the closest to an official announcement was this tweet from @OpenAI: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/chatgpt-new-memory/ more ›
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At its annual developer conference, the company seeks to reassure everyone that AI is for everyday utility — but the great disruption to the web continues Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote Tuesday at Google I/O (Casey Newton / Platformer) Here’s… more ›
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The rise of artificial intelligence has profoundly altered the technology world in recent years, upending how software is created, how people search for information, and how images and videos can be generated — all with a few prompts to a… more ›
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Imagine your family being abducted from home, or being forced into a car at gunpoint, or having your finger amputated while your captors demand a ransom payment. These examples are distressing — gruesome, in some cases — but they’re not… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/cWBoQ5y In this episode of The Horn, Alan Boswell is joined by Richard Moncrieff, Crisis Group’s Great Lakes project director, to discuss the state of the war in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. They discuss the extent of… more ›
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Google’s Project Starline has been in the works for the last few years and is now heading out commercially as Google Beam and it’s Google’s way to make virtual meetings suck less. Beam uses a light field display and six… more ›