Saudi Pipeline Attack Sends Oil Higher, AI Slowdown Hits Stocks
Equities fell around the world after leaders of the biggest artificial-intelligence firms proposed slowing the technology’s development.
Anthropic and OpenAI are promising measures to rein in the pursuit of cutting-edge AI models to better understand the risks posed by the technology following a series of security breaches.
Oil pushed higher as Saudi Arabia’s closure of a major crude pipeline following attacks jolted the market, with the move disrupting a route that’s been key to bypassing the Strait of Hormuz during the US-Iran war. Meanwhile a planned meeting between Iran and several Gulf nations on creating a temporary shipping lane through the Strait has been postponed, according to Oman’s foreign minister.
Sweden’s election will go down to the wire, the tightest in its history, and one that will hinge on the complete counting in coming days of late-arriving ballots and votes from overseas.
Today’s guests: Rachel Baxter, Vanguard European Head of Investment Management; Ayako Fujita, JPMorgan Chief Japan Economist; Cathryn Cluever Ashbrook, Bertelsmann Stiftung Senior Adviser
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Chapters:
00:00:00 – The Pulse with Francine Lacqua
00:00:26 – AI leaders call for development slowdown
00:06:36 – Saudi shuts oil pipeline that bypasses Hormuz
00:09:22 – Rachel Baxter, Vanguard, European Head of Investment Management
00:16:20 – Ayako Fujita, JPMorgan, Chief Japan Economist
00:23:27 – Monday headlines
00:23:56 – Swedish election race too close to call
00:27:34 – Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Senior Adviser
00:34:54 – Trump demands Ukraine halt refinery strikes
00:37:20 – Trump: Would love to see ‘united’ Ireland
00:40:39 – Central bank decisions this week
00:44:03 – Mapping AI’s economic impact
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