AI funding wins $600bn boost

Scholar power: 15.8%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 43%, Economics 29%, Computer science 19%, Political science 9%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Timothy D. McBride	11%	23	15.8%

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Timothy McBride

@mcbridetd.bsky.social

AI could transform the economy by year’s end www.vox.com/politics/478...

AI could transform the economy by year’s end

You just got more replaceable.

www.vox.com

February 11, 2026 at 12:20 PM

Le Monde

One year after the AI summit in Paris, the government defends its record

Since mid-February 2025, French AI startups have raised 2.6 billion euros, including 1.7 billion for Mistral AI

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Corriere della Sera

Google plans a 100-year "Methuselah" bond to finance the AI race: here's how the investment would work

According to the Financial Times, Google's parent Alphabet is planning a large multi-tranche issue that would also include the launch of the century bond.

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by Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose

54%

Scholar power: 54.3%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 43%, Economics 29%, Computer science 19%, Political science 9%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose	20%	82	54.3%

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

@rodriguez-pose.bsky.social

Maybe industrial policy isn’t picking winners but using the right mechanisms to innovate.
Zhuoying You & I show in @spatialeconomic.bsky.social that #AI adoption & #robots raise #innovation, especially in less innovative places and improve the returns of R&D spendomg.
doi.org/10.1080/1742...

AI and robotics as drivers of China’s urban innovation

Few studies have examined the economic consequences of deploying artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics in less-developed cities, where policies have often failed. To address this gap, we analys...

doi.org

February 11, 2026 at 8:47 AM

by Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose

54%

Scholar power: 54.3%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 43%, Economics 29%, Computer science 19%, Political science 9%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose	20%	82	54.3%

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by Louis Moresi

2%

Scholar power: 2.2%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 43%, Economics 29%, Computer science 19%, Political science 9%

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🎓 Louis Moresi	1%	52	2.2%

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Louis Moresi

@louis.moresi.info

For all of you worrying that AI will outsmart us, here is some comfort (probably short lived though).

I don’t know how to describe this - a map of Australia with a random mix of states mapped out. They are in the wrong place with the wrong boundaries and a few random US states thrown in. WA has obviously paid some protection money to get the exactly correct spelling and location on the map …

February 11, 2026 at 7:52 AM

by Paul Davies

29%

Scholar power: 29.4%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 43%, Economics 29%, Computer science 19%, Political science 9%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Paul Davies	31%	10	29.4%

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Paul J Davies

@pauljdavies.bsky.social

In our fully automated AI future money itself could be just a hollow prop so there’ll definitely be no point to banks or money managers and an industry that continually reinvents ways to earn fees will be gone.
@opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

AI Threatens the Finance Industry's Perpetual Profit Machine

Artificial intelligence doesn’t only threaten to put herds of software businesses out to pasture. Anthropic PBC’s schooling of its Claude models in financial modelling has also sent a cold shiver down...

www.bloomberg.com

February 11, 2026 at 7:31 AM

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Global AI Investments: The Trillion-Dollar Arms Race

Never before has so much capital flowed into a single technology in such a short time. Just Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta alone plan to invest more than $600 billion in AI this year. A look at the largest infrastructure project in history.

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by Stephen M. Bainbridge

60%

Scholar power: 60.8%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 43%, Economics 29%, Computer science 19%, Political science 9%

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🎓 Stephen M. Bainbridge	37%	30	60.8%

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Reposted by Jutta Haider, Steven French

2%

Scholar power: 2.9%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 43%, Economics 29%, Computer science 19%, Political science 9%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Jutta Haider	5%	20	2.2%
🎓 Steven French	1%	45	0.7%
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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com

@thefinancenewsletter.com

Microsoft released a study showing the 40 jobs most at risk by AI:

February 11, 2026 at 12:30 AM

by Lilian Edwards

13%

Scholar power: 13.2%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 43%, Economics 29%, Computer science 19%, Political science 9%

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🎓 Lilian Edwards	9%	24	13.2%

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Lilian Edwards

@lilianedwards.bsky.social

www.techpolicy.press/the-real-cos...
"While the European Union is starting to distance itself from US Big Tech monopolies with countries moving towards tech sovereignty, the AI Skills Hub is one example of how, conversely, the UK is moving away from sovereignty to greater dependency."

The Real Cost of the UK’s ‘Free AI Training for All’ is Democracy

Researchers argue the UK's 'AI Skills Hub' should be re-thought with input from civil society groups and public interest organizations.

www.techpolicy.press

February 10, 2026 at 11:37 PM

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