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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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They are hardly prepared for the new system. https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/15/party-democracy-political-system-participation-membership-leaders-elections-voting/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=cGFydHktZGVtb2NyYWN5LXBvbGl0aWNhbC1zeXN0ZW0tcGFydGljaXBhdGlvbi1tZW1iZXJzaGlwLWxlYWRlcnMtZWxlY3Rpb25zLXZvdGluZw==&pid=PNIhHwPfesawrtd&tpcc=fpl_pod more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/Nbri2m1 This week on Sinica, I sit down with the writer Pallavi Aiyar — at her own dining table in Beijing, where in recent months I’ve been the lucky beneficiary of her and her husband Julio’s legendary hospitality. Pallavi… more ›
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Busta Rhymes sat down with Joe and Jon to discuss his new album, “Dillagence 2,” out Aug. 25 – a project curated from hundreds of unreleased J Dilla beats and featuring D’Angelo, Lil Wayne and Common. He spoke about the… more ›
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“Today marks an extraordinary milestone for Moderna, for mRNA science and, most importantly, for patients with cancer. Along with our partners at Merck, we announced positive results from the Phase 3 INTerpath-001 study of intismeran autogene, our investigational individualized neoantigen… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/LGj3XV4 The global chaos agent known as El Niño is back, and this year it’s already on track to be, by far, the strongest and most severe on record, wreaking havoc on weather across the world. Today, Chico Harlan,… more ›
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Designers at a new crop of creative studios create fake personas they hope real people will love. Are they distorting culture or mirroring it? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/arts/ai-podcasts-fashion-pop-avatars.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5FA.fKfk.bMp5uecIkIOV&smid=bs-share more ›
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Amid fears for jobs, some film-makers say AI could enable them to bypass studio giants and take more creative risks https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/16/directors-embracing-ai-film-making?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›