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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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End Times Fascism is the latest book by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. More info here: https://ift.tt/XQpNDJ2 Produced by Emma Dessau Edited by Austin Bedell, P. Nick Curran, Emma Dessau DP, Austin Bedell Cam Op, Erick Stoll Additional Camera, P.… more ›
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“Wallfacing” to solve Navier-Stokes https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/culture-becomes-a-dark-forest?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email more ›
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Read the declaration and add your name. https://mathandai.org/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email more ›
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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/hidden-crypto-farm-mexican-mountains-puts-spotlight-cartel-funding-2026-09-12/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/ZP12pxB Technologists have feared (or prayed for) the singularity as a rapture-like inevitability for nearly 70 years. In an instant, they believed, our machine intelligence will overtake us and race ahead. Kevin Kelly says that moment has passed. Human… more ›
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Previously unpublished government data reveals the scale of Taiwan’s crackdown on Chinese companies accused of hiding their ties while recruiting chip talent and pursuing sensitive technology. https://restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-china-chip-investigations/ more ›
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Over the last several months, a new generation of YouTube growth-hackers have flooded American politics, reaching millions of viewers with nearly identical, sensationalized videos taking aim at Democrats, Semafor’s Max Tani reports. The videos are presented as laypeople giving straight-to-camera… more ›
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Artificial intelligence was used to help develop a drug candidate, rentosertib, for a rare lung condition. Its maker says the drug also seems to reduce the biological hallmarks of age. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/science/ai-generated-drug-longevity.html?unlocked_article_code=1._VA.KrR_.DUftfq15OzTx&smid=bs-share more ›
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AI is set to take all of our jobs. It will irrevocably transform our relationships – and it might even kill us all. These are some of the big claims made about artificial intelligence today. And they are claims that… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/7UDkyvw Why does anger seem to rule the world today? Pankaj Mishra traces our age of anger to the collision of Enlightenment promises of liberty and equality with empire, nationalism and capitalism. He asks what happens when those promises… more ›