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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/yQ1MeSn Fertility rates are collapsing around the world. In rich countries and poor ones, in secular societies and religious ones, people are having fewer children than ever before. Some explanations focus on economic factors like housing costs, childcare costs,… more ›
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The Chronicles of Bone (A Magnific Original Series) Season One – Episode One – A Vengeful Fairy In the wake of Vorin Mordane’s death and the loss of the southern realm to Arthur, Varek and the Mordane family regroup to… more ›
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Catherine Liu and Yaron Brook debate deindustrialization, the devaluation of skilled labour, and the decline of universities. As A.I. continues to advance at breakneck pace, is there any hope we can solve the crisis of employment and meaning? With a… more ›
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Andon Labs told four AI models to run profitable radio stations. Instead, Gemini got morbid, Claude turned revolutionary, and Grok had a nervous breakdown. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/931479/andon-labs-ai-radio-companies more ›
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Indian companies have sent more than 320 million synthetic opioid pills to West Africa – where they have not been approved by regulators – in three years. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04/17/painkiller-pipeline-300-million-tapentadol-pills-sent-from-india-to-west-africa/ more ›
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“Scaling compute” is AI industry jargon for spending more and more money on data centers and the chips (typically GPUs made by Nvidia) inside those data centers. So called hyperscalers like OpenAI, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, xAI and Anthropic aim… more ›
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ByteDance and Kuaishou outshine western rivals, lifting AI video quality across advertising and entertainment https://share.google/bQZGTNCeN6P8urw8c more ›
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Perplexity AI shifts from search to agentic AI with Computer and Personal Computer, chasing growth, partnerships, and a new way to get work done with AI https://www.forbesindia.com/article/news/deep-dive/how-perplexity-is-remaking-itself-into-a-smart-digital-co-worker/2993628/1 more ›
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In 1939, the South African artist Ernest Mancoba turned toward abstraction for the first time. Although this artistic development has been associated with Mancoba’s relationship to the CoBrA movement, Joshua Cohen argues that his embrace of abstraction also can be… more ›