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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/hX8AvqH Georgina Godwin and Tessa Szyszkowitz on pivotal elections in Germany, the latest Reform UK controversy and more. Plus: how the business model of London’s new art fair, Fair Play, puts artists first. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. September… more ›
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Much of the autonomous vehicle (AV) space is uncharted territory. However, at Waymo, with more than 200 million miles driven fully autonomously, we’re one of very few companies that can look to our past to illuminate our future. Our experience… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/0BfGR4L Gina Raimondo, a former commerce secretary and governor, thinks A.I. will create plenty of jobs in the long run. She also thinks a poorly managed transition could tear the country apart. So she came up with a plan. … more ›
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Professor Francis Fukuyama, author of ‘In The Realm of The Last Man’, discusses his ‘End of History’ thesis, the state of democracy, US President Donald Trump, JD Vance, the Democratic Party, Vladimir Putin, the War in Ukraine and authoritarianism. Interview… more ›
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GPT-6 Astra achieves state-of-the-art results on benchmarks for long-running computer-use tasks across professions and desktop apps, which means anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you, fast. It’s also the best model for software engineering to… more ›
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As company struggles with profitability, Snap CEO is doubling down on a hardware play that has made some investors wary https://www.wsj.com/tech/can-evan-spiegel-sell-the-world-on-2-195-smart-glasses-3fb9b8ca?st=SC3Kva&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/K6yRNQH As Chancellor Merz prepares to point the finger at Moscow for hybrid attacks in Leipzig, how has Germany’s foreign policy changed over the last few years? Plus: When does Japanese etiquette go too far? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy… more ›