A new podcasting elite gives tech bosses a cosy platform to broadcast their ideas. To much of the world, it sounds jarring.

Topics covered:

• Silicon Valley
• Podcasting
• Artificial intelligence

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Britain’s Conservative Party still has a shot. But its pitch for power is incoherent.

Topics covered:

• British politics
• Kemi Badenoch
• Nigel Farage

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The country’s ruthless military chief is trying to fragment the opposition.

Topics covered:

• Field Marshal Asim Munir
• Pakistan
• Imran Khan

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Rich-world politicians are playing a high-stakes game with public debt.

Topics covered:

• Bond markets
• Public debt
• Fiscal policy

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Governments must regulate synthetic biology to guard against uncontrollable disasters, such as mirror pathogen outbreaks.

Topics covered:

• Mirror life
• Biotechnology
• Bioweapons

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The initiative aims to build the foundation for a superintelligent economy while boosting weak domestic demand.

Topics covered:

• Six networks initiative
• China’s economy
• Infrastructure

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Surging public debt and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence threaten to disrupt rich-world tax systems.

Topics covered:

• Tax policy
• Artificial intelligence
• Labour income

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While the philosophy rightly champions AI safety and empirical rigour, the prospect of a small, empowered elite putting it into practice is alarming.

Topics covered:

• Effective altruism
• Artificial intelligence
• Philosophy

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