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Sam Altman thinks AI will surpass human intelligence by 2030. His rival AI billionaires say it’ll be even sooner
Sam Altman predicts AI will exceed human intelligence within five years, but competitors like Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis are placing their bets even earlier. The OpenAI CEO, who recently claimed GPT-5 already outpaces his own intellect, is staking his company's roadmap on a rapid march toward superintelligence. The race to define — and reach — that threshold is now as much a PR battle as a technical one.
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A new trade war may be brewing. This time, Europe is taking a page from Trump’s playbook — ‘We no longer live in a world of pink ponies and rainbows’
Europe's trade patience with China is running out. The EU's goods trade deficit with Beijing ballooned to 360.6 billion euros in 2025 — a 15% jump from the prior year — with the gap widening a further 10% in early 2026. Brussels is increasingly signaling it will meet economic aggression with economic aggression, borrowing the protectionist logic it once criticized in Washington.
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Nobel Laureate Daron Acemoglu on the ‘brainless’ AI discourse, the myth of capitalism and the Gen Z revolution risk
Daron Acemoglu, fresh off his Nobel Prize in Economics, is pushing back hard against the dominant narrative that AI is an unambiguous engine of prosperity. The MIT economist argues that the current discourse ignores fundamental questions about who controls the technology and who actually benefits from its deployment. Getting the answers wrong, he warns, could reshape power structures in ways that are difficult to reverse.
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