Tag: business models
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Before they gobbled up headlines everywhere, large language models ingested truly staggering amounts of data to train their models. That training data didn’t emerge from the ether: Some of it… more ›
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Warner Bros released a new Harry Potter title last month and took $850m in two weeks. That made it the second-most-successful Potter launch in the film studio’s history. But “Hogwarts… more ›
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Industrial heat is largely invisible to consumers but represents about 20% of global final energy demand and 10% of the world’s CO2 emissions. That is 2.5 times more than air and maritime transportation emissions… more ›
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The Malian discovery was vivid evidence for what a small group of scientists, studying hints from seeps, mines, and abandoned wells, had been saying for years: Contrary to conventional wisdom,… more ›
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As Amazon-type e-commerce—personified in Jumia—flounders, African entrepreneurs are finding ways to sell online that combine how people shop in malls with the convenience of retail corner shops, the shops that… more ›
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One imperfect but useful way to think about crypto is that it allowed for the creation of a toy financial system. There was already a regular financial system, a set… more ›
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We’ll see thousands of kinds of AI driven businesses in the coming years doing things totally impossible with regular code. Expect to see musical hit generators, on the fly video… more ›
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When NFT (non-fungible token) sales surged in the spring of 2021, the art world held its breath for a digital culture shift. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/12/02/nft-artist-royalties-under-threat more ›
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Globalization is not the only—or even the real—story of the global economy over the past four decades. In The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter, Shannon K. O’Neil shows that the… more ›