Episode Description
This week AI's costs and its consequences arrived together. Central banks warned of a debt-fuelled crash while FTSE-100 names cut jobs, chip prices climbed, and Europe scrambled for independence from US suppliers - even as Morrisons booked £940m in real savings.
Key stories:
• BIS warns an AI investment boom could trigger a financial crash
• BAT cuts 5,500 jobs and Oracle 21,000 in AI-driven restructuring
• Washington partly reverses Anthropic export curbs for trusted organisations
• Morrisons reports £940m in AI savings as a hard proof-point
• The FCA rethinks its regulatory model for an AI age
• Five Eyes warns AI cyber threats are now months, not years, away
• Apple raises prices and Google caps Meta's Gemini compute amid a chip crunch
• Europe debates AI sovereignty as the EU eyes cloud gatekeeper rules for AWS and Azure
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