Brendan Ruberry
42 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction
🔮 Canada’s retaliatory tariffs against $27.6 billion worth of US goods will kick in after midnight on Tuesday, as the prospects for averting a tit-for-tat trade war appeared dim.
🔮 The nationalist AfD’s landslide victory in a German state on Sunday could portend a far-right surge across Europe, analysts argued.
🔮 Malaysia is considering using Huawei chips to power its sovereign AI efforts, Bloomberg reported, in what would be the first known instance of a foreign government choosing Chinese accelerators over American ones.
🔮 “It’s a good bet that AI will eventually make some occupations obsolete,” but so far it’s “extremely hard” to identify any, the economist Noah Smith wrote, suggesting that like previous technological revolutions AI could add as many or even more jobs than it destroys.
🔮 Such pragmatism could clear a path for deals on trade and technology, though Morgan Stanley’s former chief economist tempered the optimism, arguing that major policy breakthroughs were unlikely given how past summits “generally produced little of great substance.”
🔮 Global AI infrastructure spending could exceed $31 trillion through 2050, PwC analysts projected, as firms forge ahead with a flurry of data center deals.
🔮 The first Chinese cargo ship traveling along the Northern Sea Route is set to dock in England this week, reflecting Beijing’s growing Arctic ambitions, though analysts cast doubt on the venture’s commercial feasibility.
🔮 Anthropic declined to submit its latest model for testing to a top British AI safety institute, sparking fears in the UK that reviews of frontier AI would become the sole province of Washington.
🔮 The European Commission rolled out new “Made in Europe” guidelines Wednesday to protect the continent’s manufacturers from Chinese competition, though some worried a lack of binding quotas would undermine their efficacy.
🔮 Believed uniquely capable of energizing the party’s base, Trump will give two televised speeches at the two-day event.
More on this subject from Brendan Ruberry
The Aporia
