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AI investment sustains global growth

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The IMF chief said high investment in artificial intelligence was helping sustain about 3% global growth, though gains were uneven and favored technology developers and equipment suppliers.

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UK must not be beholden to foreign AI, says head of Alan Turing Institute.

UK infrastructure is owned by foreign investors/states - ports, airports, water, energy, microchips, auto, steel, computers, phones.

Can't reduce UK vulnerability without abandoning neoliberalism.
UK must not be beholden to foreign AI, says head of Alan Turing Institute
George Williamson says ‘national resilience’ is key focus of ATI amid US and China’s runaway leadership in field
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October 12, 2026 at 7:03 AM
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Europe Must Look Beyond the US and China to Solve Its Productivity Problem

Given America and China's lead in AI and other cutting-edge innovations, it is not surprising that much of the European economic policy debate revolves around the need to emulate and catch up with these two technological superpowers. In fact, neither the US nor China offers a relevant or attractive model for Europe.

Europe Must Look Beyond the US and China to Solve Its Productivity Problem
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I'd welcome feedback on this new working paper on how to think about firms' intangible assets in the AI era: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/publications...
The business of business is relationships: the implications of generative AI for organisational intangibles - Bennett School of Public Policy
Intangibles are increasingly important to productivity growth and to the widening gaps between firms, yet generative AI is changing their value in ways that current approaches to defining and measurin...
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October 12, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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Reposted by Dani Rodrik

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Since much of Europe's services employment is not exposed to the international economy, competitiveness is a poor lens through which to formulate solutions to low productivity, notes @drodrik.bsky.social. bit.ly/4s4nCVV
Europe Must Look Beyond the US and China to Solve Its Productivity Problem
Dani Rodrik thinks the focus should be on deploying and disseminating existing innovations throughout the economy.
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October 12, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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It may sometimes be appropriate to introduce regimes of strict liability for the operation of AI systems. The required insurance costs might then (ideally) incentivise greater AI safety. Of course, all this is very tricky. But there are lessons to be learnt from the case of corporate regulation. 3/3
October 12, 2026 at 2:14 PM

by Martin McKee Reposted by Mike Daube

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Who can say no? We’ve been thinking a lot about governance of AI, learning lessons from how society has responded to analogous challenges in the past. And we welcome feedback as this is really difficult

arxiv.org/abs/2610.13340
Who Can Say No? Control, Accountability and the Pace of Frontier AI
In September 2026, the leaders of the largest frontier AI laboratories said in public that the pace of capability improvement is too fast and that none of them can slow down alone, and agents under ev...
arxiv.org
October 12, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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As *everything* becomes powered by AI, where do we even begin in distinguishing mil and non-mil uses of data centers. The commingling is a looming catastrophe.
October 12, 2026 at 10:10 AM

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Was der «einflussreichste Ökonom der Welt» über KI denkt, gefällt nicht allen, oder wie der #Economist sich von den Tech-Bros instrumentalisieren lässt.
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Was der «einflussreichste Ökonom der Welt» über KI denkt, gefällt nicht allen
Der Nobelpreisträger wurde jüngst durch das Economist-Magazin hart angegriffen. Grund dürften seine Ansichten über künstliche Intelligenz und Liberalismus sein.
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October 11, 2026 at 11:05 PM