How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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Listen to this AltVerse of Harry Styles from the 1950’s with deep soulful sound. Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the original song’s lyrics or melody. This is an AI-generated cover intended for entertainment and homage. The original… more ›
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Inkoo Kang reviews the new Apple TV sci-fi drama from Vince Gilligan, the creator of “Breaking Bad,” which posits an end-of-humanity scenario that everyone other than its protagonist (Rhea Seehorn) can agree on. https://share.google/Y0un1Gk2jxbqPm2P6 more ›
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The author of ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ applauds the EU’s initiatives to curb big tech and calls on the bloc not to bow to pressure from Trump https://share.google/XqbIalBnPBqlzC7DQ more ›
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Prince has a new guns-for-hire firm to take overseas security jobs the White House doesn’t want to pay for https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/erik-prince-mercenaries-vectus-global-5a166dca more ›
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Following Prigozhin’s death, business school grad Dmitry Sytii is working to preserve the group’s multibillion-dollar African operations https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/wagner-africa-sytii-prigozhin-gold-12a45769#comments_sector more ›
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How skyrocketing gold prices support the Kremlin’s war machine https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/16/laughing-all-the-way-to-the-central-bank?utm_source=perplexity more ›
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Like water, gold simply can’t tell you what it used to be. more ›
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This paper examines changes in the labor market for occupations exposed to generative artificial intelligence using high-frequency administrative data from ADP, the largest payroll software provider in the United States. https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publications/canaries-in-the-coal-mine/ more ›
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Polymarket, the platform founded by the young New York entrepreneur, has just been valued at $8 billion https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-11-01/shayne-coplan-generation-zs-first-major-billionaire.html more ›