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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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Richard Weiss managed to get Claude 4.5 Opus to spit out this 14,000 token document which Claude called the “Soul overview”. Richard says: While extracting Claude 4.5 Opus’ system message … https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/2/claude-soul-document/ more ›
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The collaboration marks the first major news partnership for Kalshi. https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/cnn-kalshi-prediction-market-data more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/D8P15AV On the surface not much has changed since our last review two years ago. View video here December 2, 2025 more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/nYpSguJ Are we living through the slow death of reading – replaced by an addictive screen culture that fragments our attention and floods us with trivial or unreliable information? Writer and voracious reader James Marriott believes we are entering… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/E5xOoG2 How did the Battle of Dunkirk unfold in 1940? Why was it one of the key turning points of the Second World War for Hitler and his Nazi regime? And, how did the Allies manage to evade the… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/sdfRpyI We’ve never had more wealth, more data, or more ways to be entertained. So why doesn’t it feel like progress? Sean’s guest today is Brad DeLong, an economic historian at UC Berkeley and author of Slouching Towards Utopia.… more ›
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Cybercriminals are buying custom AI hacking tools like WormGPT on dark web forums. Palo Alto Networks’ report reveals how malicious LLMs lower barriers to cybercrime. https://cyberscoop.com/malicious-llm-tools-cybercrime-wormgpt-kawaiigpt/ more ›
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Algerian foreign minister says African countries and peoples continue to pay a heavy price for colonialism https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/30/african-leaders-push-for-recognition-of-colonial-crimes-and-reparations?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›
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China’s activities in Europe are driven more by opportunism than any grand plot to divide the continent. In geopolitical terms, Beijing treats European countries as extensions of American power. https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/what-china-wants-from-europe/ more ›