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4th Industrial Revolution
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Advanced economies generally reached high incomes and productivity levels before their populations began aging. But birth rates are now falling sharply in emerging economies, too. mck.co/3UkzjeR
I plan to explore this in a blog post re Parsis,Baghdadi Jews, Armenians,Tangra chinese, Tibetans etc have enriched the country's economic and cultural life in many ways.
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SoftBank and ABB are looking at carving out the Chinese part of a giant robotics deal as they explore ways to salvage a transaction blocked by Beijing, according to people familiar with the matter bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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The United Arab Emirates helped fund and train Colombian mercenaries who fought with a Sudanese paramilitary force accused of war crimes and genocide, a recent United Nations report found bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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أكدت تقارير الأمم المتحدة وهيومن رايتس ووتش قيام الإمارات بتمويل وتدريب مقاتلين كولومبيين للقتال بجانب قوات الدعم السريع بالسودان. يساهم هذا الدعم في تعزيز العمليات العسكرية ضد الحكومة الشرعية، وسط اتهامات دولية موثقة بارتكاب جرائم حرب وتطهير عرقي وإبادة جماعية.
nytimes.com/2026/11/05/wor…
hrw.org/report/2026/05…
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The Pentagon has tasked US robotics startup Machina Labs with trying to mass-produce cheap attack drones in quickly assembled modular factories as autonomous systems continue to change modern warfare bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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既にインドに進出済みの日本企業も実は困っている。技術連携先、サプライヤー、戦略パートナー選定。そして有能なインド人スタッフの雇用とマネジメント。これまで未進出の日本企業のサポートしてきたが最近このような相談も多い。日本と連携したいインドの会社や有識者ネットワークを更に広げていく
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NEW: using satellite imagery, we tracked decadal trends in turbidity, chlorophyll and temperature across the ganges and found that in spite of billions of dollars in investment, many sections of the river are worse than they used to be.
read here 🎁: bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-…
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.@washingtonpost reports a new joint Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania study finding data centers have "only a small effect on residential electricity prices."
Data centers were responsible for "just 4 percent of the utility rate increases over the last five years."
**Weak Connection Between Data Centers & Overall Electricity Prices**
"Multiple studies by different researchers and organizations have failed to find a strong connection between data centers and the overall trajectory of U.S. electricity prices in recent years."
archive.is/20261106122720/ht…
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A trade negotiation 25 years ago helped create a superpower bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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White-collar consulting jobs tied to AI implementation may be joining blue-collar construction and manufacturing jobs tied to the data center buildout as a driver of US employment growth bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Sodium-ion batteries need to be included in Viability Gap Funding (VGF) scheme for BESS. Sustained govt support including for pilot plants will be needed to move these from the lab to commercially viable products with acceptable yields.
taiyangnews.info/storage/ind…
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A “China shock 2.0” is raising concerns across many countries. But how does Chinese growth actually propagate abroad?
In a new @CEPR_org paper with @paulabeltrans and Lukas Franz (@kielinstitute), we use data on almost 10 million firms in 37 countries to unpack the channels. 🧵
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When China was welcomed into the WTO, Americans were sold a vision of a country that would be transformed economically and politically by trade. Decades later, that’s yet to materialize bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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"Advanced economies are at very different stages of demographic ageing. Some are still enjoying strong population growth, often fuelled by immigration. Others are experiencing outright population declines." ft.com/content/6cf35b70-480b…
Clearing out the clutter before Diwali. Psychoanalysis of a very distinct kind of postmodernism:
renaissant.substack.com/p/po…