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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/1DlZYhu What led to the Second Opium War? Why wasn’t China colonised by Europeans? When did China start referring to this period as the “century of humiliation” and how did this narrative shape nationalism in the 20th century? Anita… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/r8UdL4h Emily Bender is a computational linguistics professor at the University of Washington. Alex Hanna is the Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute. Bender and Hanna join Big Technology to discuss what their new book, “The AI‑Con,"… more ›
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Large language models (LLMs) are remarkably versatile. They can summarize documents, generate code or even brainstorm new ideas. And now we’ve expanded these capabilities to target fundamental and highly complex problems in mathematics and modern computing. https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/ more ›
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For more than a decade Google has used advancements in AI to protect you from online scams where malicious actors deceive users to gain access to money, personal information, or both. https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/how-were-using-ai-to-combat-the-latest-scams/ more ›
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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is stirring controversy in Memphis, Tennessee. That’s where he’s building a massive supercomputer to power his company xAI. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk-xai-memphis more ›
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Amazon.com Inc.’s Audible is working with US-based book publishers to convert print and e-books into artificial intelligence-voiced audiobooks, helping to expand its catalog particularly in non-English speaking markets. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-13/audible-to-partner-with-publishers-to-create-ai-voiced-audiobooks more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/FYx9W5t In this episode Hagen Blix and I talk about how the fear of AI, from the non-billionaire CEO class, comes from the threat of deskilling workers. Recorded Mar 5, 2025. Released March 17, 2025. Tech Workers Can Still… more ›
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The success of Elon Musk and his companies defy received understanding. Tesla stock creeps upwards even as it suffers the kind of setbacks that would amount to serious trauma in any other company. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5205633 more ›