Ep.21 - The water crisis in the time of AI
Water is the most commonly exchanged resource in the world. The “virtual market” of blue gold is four-hundred times that of petrol. But the water crisis is one of the main emergencies of our time, esp...
14 Feb 202411min
Ep.20 - Elon Musk and the Magnificent Seven
A few days ago, a Delaware court suspended the payment of Tesla’s compensation package to founder Elon Musk, which was originally decided in 2018. The package was worth about 56 billion dollars, which...
7 Feb 202412min
Ep.19 - Artificial Intelligence and thermonuclear war
Moscow, 26 September 1983. It’s a few minutes past midnight, when lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov looks the apocalypse right in the eyes. On the screens connected to OKO - a satellite system which...
31 Jan 202413min
Ep.18 - The Two Faces of Davos
“Rebuilding Trust in the Future»” was the theme of the latest edition of the World Economic Forum, held like every year in Davos. This title immediately sounded vague when considering our present time...
24 Jan 202411min
Ep.17 - The crisis of global routes
In the last few weeks, we’ve seen a new danger for global markets. The raids of the Houthi, a Yemenite rebel militia supported by Iran, have blocked one of the arteries of global commerce: the Red Sea...
17 Jan 202413min
Ep.16 - Finance and the best of all possible worlds
Looking at the main financial indicators, the situation at the start of 2024 looks better than the most optimistic predictions. Inflation is dropping, American growth is constant, unemployment is stab...
10 Jan 202412min
Ep.15 - 2023: return of the Leviathan
"2023 was the year in which the State regained control of economic policy with so-called de-risking: a risk reduction strategy by which the West wishes to move away from reliance on the Chinese market...
27 Dec 202311min
Ep.14 - The five days that did (not) shake OpenAI
The latest earthquake to shake Silicon Valley was last Friday 17th November. The epicenter was at 601 Mission Street, San Francisco, headquarters to OpenAI – the leader of the AI sector. In less than ...
20 Dec 202311min
