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_Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…A chaotic AI summit in India ends with some voluntary commitments and $200 billion for the host nation…Anthropic accuses Chinese rivals of using Claude’s answers to enhance their models…OpenAI launches an alliance with major consulting firms to sell i

​Forget the old fears of Peak Oil. The world has flipped from a scarcity crisis to a crisis of drowning in abundance. We have entered the era of the Super Glut—a structural deluge where we are extracting hydrocarbons faster than the global economy can burn them. According to the IEA’s January 2026 r

As a French teetotaler, Justine Bobin knows how challenging it can be to not drink in a country where wine, beer and other boozy beverages still lubricate many social interactions, even if France is less hooked on alcohol than it used to be.
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UK police arrested Labour Party grandee Peter Mandelson on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
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The Metropolitan Police confirmed they arrested a 72-year-old man in Camden on Monday who was then taken to a London police station for interview. “This follows search

The Supreme Court’s decision striking down President Donald Trump’s tariffs has created a $180 billion opportunity for U.S. companies to recoup the cost of import taxes through potential refunds. For American consumers, however, the chances of seeing relief are slim.
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The artificial intelligence revolution is rewriting the rules of the American economy, but rather than ushering in a golden age of consumer prosperity, it is sparking a massive, resource-heavy infrastructure boom that could leave the everyday worker behind.
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Lamborghini is the latest luxury carmaker to admit the appetite for exclusive and expensive electric cars just isn’t there.
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CEO Stephan Winkelmann confirmed in an interview with _The Sunday Times_ this week Lamborghini is shelving its all-electric Lanzador and pivoting to

Asia remains the world’s fastest-growing region—and its momentum shows little sign of slowing. According to 2025 McKinsey estimates, the region is set to contribute as much as 40% of global growth by 2040.
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Investment in AI infrastructure is crucial to U.S. GDP growth, with corporate spending showing a significant boost despite declines in other sectors. This trend suggests AI's impact extends to consumer spending and the broader economy.

Workers have been falling behind dramatically in the tug of war between capital and labor, stoking serious concern about the trust holding the economy and society together.
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Diane Swonk, chief economist and managing director at KPMG, highlighted troubling data on corporate

“Ghost in the machine” isn’t just an album by The Police. It’s a midcentury term, coined around 1949, to engage with an old philosophical debate that goes back hundreds of years: Is consciousness biological, driven by an organ called the brain? Or is there some kind of ghost in the machine that is o

When a loved one dies, a pregnancy is lost, or a serious diagnosis lands, most employees uncover the true value of their workplace benefits—not in the enrollment brochure, but during the worst week of their lives. 
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Increasingly, they’re finding those benefits don’t measure

In 1993, Jensen Huang met two of his engineering friends at a Denny’s in Silicon Valley. Over pancakes and coffee, Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem kicked around an idea that sounded ambitious at the time: building chips that could deliver realistic 3D graphics on personal

Friday’s Supreme Court ruling striking down President Donald Trump’s tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) notably left out one question: Would importers receive a refund for the potentially billions of dollars they paid in illegal tariffs? One

FOMO—the fear of missing out—used to be a shorthand favorite of young people worried about not being at the right party on a Saturday night. Now, chief executives are increasingly having FOMO over applied AI. The financial bets are large enough for boards to wince at capital expenditure

Jim Ratcliffe, co-owner of Manchester United, apologized for offensive anti-immigrant remarks stating the U.K. has been "colonized" by immigrants, which drew criticism from political leaders and fans.

Hungary will block a planned 90-billion-euro ($106-billion) European Union loan to Ukraine until the flow of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline resumes, Hungary’s foreign minister said.
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Russian oil shipments to Hungary and Slovakia have been interrupted since Jan. 27, a

European allies at NATO on Thursday brushed aside concerns that the United States has stepped back from its leadership role of the world’s biggest security organization, leaving them and Canada to do the lion’s share of

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday pitched India as a central player in the global artificial intelligence ecosystem, saying the country aims to build technology at home while deploying it worldwide.
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“Design and develop in India. Deliver to the world. Deliver to