A newsletter about Pop Culture, Software Studies, Business Strategy, Media Platforms, Algorithmic Management, Game Design, and everything in between.
FEATURED
How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
-
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits. https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html more ›
-
Vinod Khosla and Exponential View’s Azeem Azhar examine the coming AI-driven discontinuities—from billion-dollar 10-person startups to collapsing healthcare incumbents—and ask what happens when energy and cognition both become nearly free. — more ›
-
A practical framework to test whether AI is building value – or inflating it. https://www.exponentialview.co/p/is-ai-a-bubble?utm_medium=email more ›
-
OpenAI and Apollo Research tried to stop models from lying – and discovered something else altogether. https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-models-know-when-theyre-being-tested-and-change-their-behavior-research-shows/?ref=platformer.news more ›
-
Step into the smoke-filled alleys of 1960s Memphis, where every streetlight flickers over rain-slick pavement and danger waits in the shadows. Many Men reimagines 50 Cent’s legendary track as a raw, soulful noir ballad—heavy with brass, dusty drums, and a… more ›
-
South African wine is having its moment in the spotlight, with critics from Wine Spectator to Jancis Robinson praising the country’s “New Wave” producers for creating wines that rival anything from Burgundy or Barolo. The narrative is compelling: exceptional terroir, innovative… more ›
-
Listen: https://ift.tt/cqyYXWu Born to an enslaved mother in the British Caribbean in the tumultuous, brutal world of the late 18th century, Henry Christoph's role in the Haitian Revolution saw him rise to prominence – and was just one chapter in… more ›
-
Listen: https://ift.tt/WONSLIA Many skilled professionals working within creative fields are unhappy about how AI is impacting their industry. They want to protect their work and the creative process from artificial intelligence because of fears over things like job protection, devaluation… more ›