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/E5xOoG2 How did the Battle of Dunkirk unfold in 1940? Why was it one of the key turning points of the Second World War for Hitler and his Nazi regime? And, how did the Allies manage to evade the… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/sdfRpyI We’ve never had more wealth, more data, or more ways to be entertained. So why doesn’t it feel like progress? Sean’s guest today is Brad DeLong, an economic historian at UC Berkeley and author of Slouching Towards Utopia.… more ›
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Cybercriminals are buying custom AI hacking tools like WormGPT on dark web forums. Palo Alto Networks’ report reveals how malicious LLMs lower barriers to cybercrime. https://cyberscoop.com/malicious-llm-tools-cybercrime-wormgpt-kawaiigpt/ more ›
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Algerian foreign minister says African countries and peoples continue to pay a heavy price for colonialism https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/30/african-leaders-push-for-recognition-of-colonial-crimes-and-reparations?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›
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China’s activities in Europe are driven more by opportunism than any grand plot to divide the continent. In geopolitical terms, Beijing treats European countries as extensions of American power. https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/what-china-wants-from-europe/ more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/DV7Zmfk As President Donald Trump approaches the one-year anniversary of his second term in office, the FT’s chief economics commentator Martin Wolf, and Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman sit down to discuss the US economy and the state of… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/WloaBsJ When an Oxbridge professor says his students are “functionally illiterate”, you know something is wrong. With reading levels in freefall and screentime rocketing, is the era of mass literacy over? In his wildly successful blog, James Marriot argues… more ›
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Header image from Dex Horthy on Twitter. Context engineering is building dynamic systems to provide the right information and tools in the right format such that the LLM can plausibly accomplish the task. Most of the time when an agent… more ›