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As AI leader Nvidia posts record results, Warren Buffett’s made a surprise bet on Google

As AI leader Nvidia posts record results, Warren Buffett’s made a surprise bet on Google

If the AI bubble bursts, it could bring down some of the biggest tech companies – but perhaps not its most durable, like Google and Apple.

20.11.2025 8

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Cameron Shackell

Could a ‘grey swan’ event bring down the AI revolution? Here are 3 risks we should be preparing for

Sometimes, no one sees a major global shock coming. Risk analysts call these ‘black swan’ events. Other times, we see them coming – we just...

05.11.2025 10

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Cameron Shackell

Today’s AI hype has echoes of a devastating technology boom and bust 100 years ago

AI is showing some of the hallmarks of another technology’s rapid rise and fall back in the 1920s. These are the lessons we could learn.

07.10.2025 7

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Cameron Shackell

Computers tracking us, an ‘electronic collar’: Gilles Deleuze’s 1990 Postcript on the Societies of Control was eerily prescient

Writing before the advent of the smartphone, a French philosopher foresaw a world where computers would shape our behaviour, controlling much of our...

18.06.2025 20

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Cameron Shackell

Computers tracking us, people as data points: Gilles Deleuze’s 1990 Postcript on the Societies of Control was eerily prescient

Writing before the advent of the smartphone, a French philosopher foresaw an ‘electronic collar’ that would shape our behaviour, controlling much...

18.06.2025 10

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Cameron Shackell