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The U.S. and Iran are locked in an undeclared war that neither side wants to openly acknowledge, even as American troops die and Iranian missiles fly.
The gaming industry's AI reckoning isn't about replacing workers—it's about eliminating the rungs on the ladder that once led there.
The prevailing story about AI in a disaster zone is that it belongs to governments and large NGOs: satellite imagery pipelines at FEMA, damage models at the World Bank, logistics dashboards at the UN. When twin earthquakes reportedly ripped through northern Venezuela last month, that story broke.
In 1973, when OPEC's oil embargo revealed how much of the industrialised world ran on Gulf petroleum, the region's monarchies discovered they had bought themselves a kind of leverage that money alone could not manufacture.
When a government objects to a feature that has not yet launched, over harms that have not yet occurred, and demands the company justify its design choices, something unusual is happening.
The last time a Pacific weather cycle of this magnitude collided with a live regional war, the models pricing global food risk were never built for shocks arriving in stereo.
What the IMF did not say on Wednesday matters as much as what it did.
In one example from Shenzhen, a former product manager laid off from a major platform company is now running what she calls a business of one, using generative AI to write ad copy, design storefronts, and produce short-form video dramas from a repurposed industrial park where the rent is subsidised by the local government.
The number that emerged from a leaked negotiation this month was $320. That is what each American household would receive, in equity, if Sam Altman's proposal to hand the US government a 5% stake in OpenAI were distributed evenly across American families.
