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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/DBAvo0F Scott Kerr speaks with Stefano Peccatori, president & CEO of Rizzoli International Publications, the famed Italian publishing house recognized for producing high-end illustrated books in fashion, architecture, art, and design and its world-famous Rizzoli Bookstore in New York… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/C920DrL Historian, author and podcaster William Dalrymple believes it was India’s Golden Road – not China’s Silk Road – that transformed the world. He tells Kim Hill about his latest book and his own family history in the Empire.… more ›
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INs & OUTs | New Wave Hardware | New Radicals | Caterina Barbieri | Lighthouses https://news.inanimate.tech/p/lab-notes-don-t-call-it-hardware more ›
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Microsoft is putting forth compelling proposals for the Open Agentic Web. However, the proposal needs digital payments, which will be key to creating a new content marketplace for AI. https://stratechery.com/2025/the-agentic-web-and-original-sin/ more ›
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The world’s most complex machine https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-worlds-most-complex-machine/ more ›
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Sprawling marketing groups are struggling to respond to new technology https://share.google/JRTVf0sm9plN6UYqq more ›
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Gil Evans, a Canadian-born pianist and composer, “enormously expanded the vocabulary of the jazz orchestra,” as writer Gene Lees pointed out, reducing the standard big-band instrumentation, restraining its vibrato, and adding flutes, oboes, English and French horns, and tubas. https://www.ipm.org/show/nightlights/2019-09-10/individualism-gil-evans-in-the-1960s more ›
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There is concern that there isn’t enough energy to go around. In 2024, the IEA reported that energy demands from data centers and AI will likely more than double from 460 terawatt-hour (TWh) of electricity in 2022 to more than 1,000 TWh… more ›