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Big tech sparks AI risks

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Tech giants poured massive investments into AI and rolled out autonomous agent programs worldwide, prompting researchers and analysts to warn of systemic risks, market concentration and economic disruption.

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Project Syndicate
AI Will Transform Business, Not Just Jobs

Debates about the impact of AI have centered on potential job losses, with far less attention paid to its implications for the business landscape. But corporate leaders should be thinking about how the technology can enhance their organizational capabilities and, in turn, increase economy-wide productivity.

AI Will Transform Business, Not Just Jobs
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The Guardian
Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert

Prof Michael Wooldridge says scenario such as deadly self-driving car update or AI hack could destroy global interest The race to get artificial intelligence to market has raised the risk of a Hindenburg-style disaster that shatters global confidence in the technology, a leading researcher has warned. Michael Wooldridge, a professor of AI at Oxford University, said the danger arose from the immense commercial pressures that technology firms were under to release new AI tools, with companies desperate to win customers before the products’ capabilities and potential flaws are fully understood. Continue reading. . .

Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert
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Handelsblatt
Artificial Intelligence: The Awakening – Why AI Is Reaching a New Stage

ChatGPT is yesterday: New agent programs like Open Claw autonomously solve problems and complete entire steps of a task. The results are fascinating - and the risks enormous.

Artificial Intelligence: The Awakening – Why AI Is Reaching a New Stage
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Der Standard
The societal upheaval caused by AI - what are your concerns?

My Forum: Discuss this topic with the STANDARD community

The societal upheaval caused by AI - what are your concerns?
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To Vima
From Athens to New Delhi: Greece's bet in the era of artificial intelligence

The anatomy of the India-AI Impact Summit 2026, the central pillars and the key people.

From Athens to New Delhi: Greece's bet in the era of artificial intelligence
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Artificial Intelligence: Welcome to the world's largest testing laboratory

AI will pose a challenge to India's software giants. Prime Minister Modi keeps this newly emerging market open. The world's most populous country is testing what works in everyday life.

Artificial Intelligence: Welcome to the world's largest testing laboratory
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Kathimerini
The €6.8 billion regulation, risk analysis, a €208 million bet, and how much the stars cost

Good morning. The AI revolution has a price, and that is starting to appear on store shelves. As tech giants invest billions in data centers and supercomputers, memories and chips are becoming scarce and expensive, triggering cascading price increases in phones, computers, and consoles. Companies face a dilemma: more expensive devices, and what that means for consumers.

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To Vima
Artificial Intelligence: The slow shift of humans and the new form of idolization

For the first time, the tool not only extends human power; it seeks to co-create meaning.

Artificial Intelligence: The slow shift of humans and the new form of idolization
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To Vima
Artificial intelligence: opportunities, challenges, responsibility in the new reality

Our position is clear: if AI is the new field of competition, then we must ensure it operates on fair terms and equal opportunities for all

Artificial intelligence: opportunities, challenges, responsibility in the new reality
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To Vima
If humanity fails to define its future, it will have no future

Although AI has global reach, regulations are regional (mainly the EU) and national, but not global. Ideally they should be global

If humanity fails to define its future, it will have no future
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Digital stocks: The AI losers on the stock market

While the stock market is still wondering who will win from the AI wave, the first losers already seem to be clear: software makers, data providers, legal service providers, and education providers. Here's what investors need to watch now.

Digital stocks: The AI losers on the stock market
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Tech stocks: The AI losers on the stock market

While the market is still guessing who will win from the AI wave, the first losers seem already clear: software makers, data providers, legal service providers, and education providers. What investors should watch.

Tech stocks: The AI losers on the stock market
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Dagens Næringsliv
Four AI giants to invest more than a quarter of the oil fund this year – have surprised the market

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft are set to invest $650 billion this year alone. The investment director fears it could involve entirely different companies.

Four AI giants to invest more than a quarter of the oil fund this year – have surprised the market
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Kathimerini
Hyper-concentration of the economy around AI and the fear of the 'shock'

AI is not ruling only the stock markets. It is now drawing together bonds, private debt, and more broadly the entire economic activity around a single bet: that AI will deliver returns at a scale large enough to justify the enormous investments.

Hyper-concentration of the economy around AI and the fear of the 'shock'
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