Category: Economy
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Anthropic Let Claude Run a Kiosk. It Got Scammed and Hallucinated ‘The Simpsons’
In an ambitious test of autonomous commerce, AI research company Anthropic recently concluded “Project Vend,” an internal experiment where its language model, Claude, was given full control over a small office business. The results, released by the company in a video documentary, ranged from impressive logistical coordination to bizarre hallucinations involving “The Simpsons” and inadvertent…
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The Era of the Plutocrat and the Rot Within
In the season finale of “The Wolf-Krugman Exchange,” two of the world’s most prominent economic thinkers, Martin Wolf and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, turned their attention to questions from their audience. The discussion, ranging from the legacy of 1980s deregulation to the rise of artificial intelligence, coalesced around a central, darkening theme: the erosion of…
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The Year Free Trade Died: Experts Map the Shift to Transactional Diplomacy
In a sweeping review of the geopolitical landscape following the first year of the second Trump administration, leading foreign policy experts describe 2025 as a “transformative year” defined by the collapse of global free trade norms and a radical shift toward transactional diplomacy. In a special episode of the State of Play podcast released by the Center…
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‘Pax Silica’: US Accelerates Push to Decouple AI and Chip Supply Chains
The United States is accelerating its efforts to decouple its artificial intelligence and semiconductor supply chains from China, a strategy Under Secretary of State Jacob Helberg described as a shift toward “Pax Silica.” In a wide-ranging interview on “Bloomberg Tech,” Helberg outlined an aggressive economic security strategy that prioritizes “reindustrializing America” and deepening alliances with…
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Ukraine’s Energy Reckoning: Experts Urge End to Populism and ‘Green Tank’ Illusions
As Ukraine battles to repair an energy infrastructure shattered by Russian missile strikes, experts are warning that a return to the pre-war status quo is impossible. Facing the dual challenges of physical destruction and a shifting global security landscape, analysts from the Ukrainian Institute for the Future (UIF) argue that Kyiv must abandon decades of…
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Republicans Fear ‘Looming Disaster’ as Inflation Bites Ahead of Midterms
With the 2026 midterm elections less than a year away, significant alarm is spreading within the Republican Party regarding the economic landscape and President Donald Trump’s fluctuating messaging on inflation. According to a new report from “The Daily Blast” podcast produced by the New Republic and the DSR Network, GOP officials are bracing for significant…
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Beyond Chatbots: Physical AI Is Rewriting the Laws of Manufacturing
While the world remains fixated on generative chatbots and image creators, a more tangible revolution is taking place within the industrial heartland. In a detailed report released by Future in the Making, a media platform dedicated to manufacturing innovation, experts argue that Artificial Intelligence is moving beyond digital novelties to fundamentally alter the physics of the…
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Zeihan: Global Depression Was Inevitable, Trump Just an ‘Accelerant’
In a stark assessment of the global economic landscape released on Friday via his “Zeihan on Geopolitics” channel, geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan argued that a looming global depression is not the result of Donald Trump’s tariff policies, but rather the inevitable consequence of long-term demographic and structural shifts. Responding to viewer questions regarding whether the…
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Scott Manley Scrutinizes Lumen Orbit’s Vision for Orbital AI Data Centers
In the midst of a global boom in artificial intelligence development, a Silicon Valley startup is looking beyond the Earth’s atmosphere to solve the energy crisis facing terrestrial data centers. Lumen Orbit, backed by the prestigious tech accelerator Y Combinator, recently published a white paper proposing the construction of massive orbital data centers for AI…
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Silicon Valley and Big Oil Spark Geothermal Revolution
For decades, geothermal energy has remained the sleeping giant of the renewable energy transition. Despite being one of the cleanest and most reliable power sources available, it has languished as a niche industry, contributing less than 1% to the global energy mix. However, a convergence of Silicon Valley capital and petroleum engineering is sparking a…