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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/tpgRNCO Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google and Alphabet, acknowledges that no company is immune from the risks of an AI investment bubble, including Google itself, and warns that the rapid growth of artificial intelligence will lead to significant… more ›
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‘What Comes After Progressivism?’ as part of the Future of the Left Project with John Gray Political Philosopher Author of The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism (2023) and afterwards in conversation with Jonathan Rutherford Head of the Future of the… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/hfD09T8 Nina Mohanty is the founder and CEO of Bloom Money. Nina’s problem is this: How do you build an app to help immigrants manage their money? On today’s show, Nina talks about bringing a saving and lending practice… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/7ESUk5x The brilliant computer scientist Fei-Fei Li is often called the Godmother of AI. She talks with host Reid Hoffman about why scientists and entrepreneurs need to be fearless in the face of an uncertain future. Li was a… more ›
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The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious. The Associated Press has found that the predictive intelligence program has resulted in people… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/pP6XV59 How did the young journalist with the quiff haircut and his companion Snowy The Dog feature in Nazi propaganda in the 1940s? What was the origin story of Hergé, the Belgian illustrator who created The Adventures of Tintin?… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/5tzjJbG The French pioneer of European integration Jean Monnet believed that Europe would be ‘built in crisis’. The war in Ukraine is putting this theory to the test, once again. Gideon discusses with historian Timothy Garton Ash how European… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/9fI0sRg Clipse's Pusha T and Malice reunited this year for the first time since 2009 with Let God Sort Em Out, and it ended up as one of the year's best albums. In the first episode of Rolling Stone's… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/RY57lVW Okay, let’s talk about AI and what I’ve been calling the “DoorDash problem.” This is about to define the next battle in AI, and it might completely transform not only how you order a sandwich, but also how… more ›
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In a big year for Chinese cultural exports, a new video game is the latest to win a global audience. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/china-connection-newsletter-video-game-soft-power-tencent-netease-pif-where-winds-meet.html more ›