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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/DV7Zmfk As President Donald Trump approaches the one-year anniversary of his second term in office, the FT’s chief economics commentator Martin Wolf, and Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman sit down to discuss the US economy and the state of… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/WloaBsJ When an Oxbridge professor says his students are “functionally illiterate”, you know something is wrong. With reading levels in freefall and screentime rocketing, is the era of mass literacy over? In his wildly successful blog, James Marriot argues… more ›
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Header image from Dex Horthy on Twitter. Context engineering is building dynamic systems to provide the right information and tools in the right format such that the LLM can plausibly accomplish the task. Most of the time when an agent… more ›
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The human being is the only animal that can say no to treats. That’s what makes us special. A hungry dog, fish, sheep, centipede – none of them can have their favorite food in front of them and voluntarily refrain… more ›
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Hollywood knows AI is a profound technology, bound to be transformative, and also bound to replace humans. But the players are having an incredibly hard time being honest about it with one another. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/ai-the-elephant-in-the-room-hollywood-cant-stop-talking-about more ›
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Who belongs to our moral community? The Greek philosopher Empedocles had an answer: all life, from humans to the laurel bush https://aeon.co/essays/should-we-act-morally-towards-trees-empedocles-says-yes?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=4feb57c325-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_11_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-19d630b572-71652312 more ›
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Pianist Chick Corea has lived many lives as a musician, from post-bop wunderkind to free-jazz maverick to fusion explorer to chamber-jazz eminence. Jazz Night caught up with Corea during a recent gig at Scullers in Boston while he was on… more ›