If AI makes things cheaper, people will use the savings to buy things they couldn't afford before. Anything else is a lump-of-demand fallacy.
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Ren Ito of G7 Yomiuri article on Japan’s importance in AI
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The co-founder of Sakana AI, Ren Ito, who participated in the G7 summit of heads of state, contributed an article to the Yomiuri Shimbun. In a context where the international environment around AI is undergoing major changes, he emphasizes the importance for Japan to continue
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Pay workers training AI replacements in stock for mutual benefit
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Pay workers who train their AI replacements in stock, and everyone will gain.
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Pay workers training AI replacements in stock benefits all
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Pay workers who train their AI replacements in stock, and everyone will gain.
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Lawmakers warn airlines of AI pricing targeting personal pain points
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1/ Airlines are moving fares to AI that prices by demand, your device, and your location in real time. One carrier planned to set 20% of fares this way, in what lawmakers called pricing aimed at your personal "pain point." It denies using personal data. The rest are following.
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Business model for profitable frontier open weights model training?
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Is there a business model for being profitable off training frontier open weights models? Other people can host, fine-tune, consult etc. as least as cheaply as you can. There are no ancilary product sales & it is fantastically expensive to make compared to most open source work
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Interview with Roland Lescure on France’s place in AI
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The full interview on France's place in the global AI race with the Minister of Economy @RolandLescure is available on my YouTube channel! https://youtu.be/BF4y9O89gJ4 Here are all the topics covered: CHAPTERS
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AI bubble evident in quarterly losses except one subsidized quarter
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the bubble is here right now and you can see it in the burn statements. aside from one quarter for Anthropic heavily subsidized by Elon Musk, at the height of tokenmaxxing, every quarter has been a loss, mostly huge losses. “the bubble” is the fact that the valuations don’t
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Global competition for elite AI talents
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The global competition for elite AI talent is unlike anything we have seen before. Multi-billion dollar compensation offers. Frontier labs battling for a handful of world-class minds. Because, the interesting thing is this: in a world defined by exponential systems, even a single… pic.twitter.com/jU24fGASEO
— Nina Schick (@NinaDSchick) 18 juin 2026Global competition for elite AI talents is unprecedented. Multi-billion dollar compensation offers. State-of-the-art laboratories vying for a handful of world-class minds. Because, the most interesting thing is this: in a world
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Preparing metered billing for AI like electricity or water
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Preipairing metered bills for AI, just like electricity or water.