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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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In a big year for Chinese cultural exports, a new video game is the latest to win a global audience. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/china-connection-newsletter-video-game-soft-power-tencent-netease-pif-where-winds-meet.html more ›
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Introducing Private AI Compute, our new way to bring you helpful AI with the power of the cloud, while keeping your data private to you. https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-private-ai-compute/ more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/gVvtLU5 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is operating in an unprecedented way during US President Donald Trump’s second term. The agency has existed for over 20 years, but now operates as a masked force. Imposters posing as agents have… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/CJwxWiG Since the 1980s, Brett Christophers wrote recently in the LRB, ‘firms have made vast amounts of money by sending the rich world’s waste to the global South’ – hazardous waste at first, joined more recently by discarded electronics, clothes… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/6XuEQOf Argentina’s Javier Milei needs dollars to keep his economic overhaul on track. The Trump administration’s financial support buys him time but doesn’t solve the problem of what to do with the peso. Argentina’s currency trades in a band… more ›
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The European Commission has proposed changes weakening EU privacy legislation and delaying parts of the AI Act to make the bloc more competitive globally. https://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changes more ›
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Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises Improvisation · Kayhan Kalhor Scattering Stars Like Dust ℗ 2005 Traditional Crossroads Released on: 2005-01-01 Auto-generated by YouTube. — more ›
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Welcome to @WeAreJazz Experience a historical Persian melody reimagined as 1-hour smooth jazz . “Aghrabe Zolfe Kajet” (عقرب زلف کجت), attributed to Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (1831–1896), is one of Iran’s most enduring romantic poems. Originally set in the Persian… more ›