How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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INs & OUTs | New Wave Hardware | New Radicals | Caterina Barbieri | Lighthouses https://news.inanimate.tech/p/lab-notes-don-t-call-it-hardware more ›
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Microsoft is putting forth compelling proposals for the Open Agentic Web. However, the proposal needs digital payments, which will be key to creating a new content marketplace for AI. https://stratechery.com/2025/the-agentic-web-and-original-sin/ more ›
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The world’s most complex machine https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-worlds-most-complex-machine/ more ›
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Sprawling marketing groups are struggling to respond to new technology https://share.google/JRTVf0sm9plN6UYqq more ›
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Gil Evans, a Canadian-born pianist and composer, “enormously expanded the vocabulary of the jazz orchestra,” as writer Gene Lees pointed out, reducing the standard big-band instrumentation, restraining its vibrato, and adding flutes, oboes, English and French horns, and tubas. https://www.ipm.org/show/nightlights/2019-09-10/individualism-gil-evans-in-the-1960s more ›
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There is concern that there isn’t enough energy to go around. In 2024, the IEA reported that energy demands from data centers and AI will likely more than double from 460 terawatt-hour (TWh) of electricity in 2022 to more than 1,000 TWh… more ›
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The Battle of Waterberg (Battle of Ohamakari) took place on August 11, 1904, at the Waterberg, German South West Africa (modern day Namibia), and was the decisive battle in the Herero uprising. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterberg?wprov=sfla1 more ›
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While the current space race may not have the same monopoly on the American imagination as the sprint to the moon held during the 1950s and 60s, it deserves our equal attention. https://hir.harvard.edu/anti-satellite-weapons-and-the-emerging-space-arms-race/ more ›
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Five 00:00 Introduction by Humphrey Lyttelton 00:50 How my heart sings 01:50 Nardis 05:53 Who can I turn to 11:37 Someday my prince will come 17:37 How deep is the ocean 23:11 Waltz for debby 29:17 Five 34:11 Elsa 36:45… more ›