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The possibilities for an inevitable coalition government are a head-spinning colour wheel of party logos. We look at the most likely outcomes (https://www.economist.com/interactive/2025-german-election-polls-prediction-forecast?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners), and the smaller parties that may well play kingmakers. A series of scandals (https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/02/06/japan-could-finally-face-its-own-metoo-crisis?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) in Japan has propelled the country to a belated #MeToo crisis (10:35). And London’s once-abundant pie shops struggle (https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/01/21/londons-pie-and-mash-shops-are-disappearing?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) with changing tastes and relocating clientele (16:53).
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Google DeepMind and Anthropic founders, Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei, are two of the world's foremost leaders in artificial intelligence. Our editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, sat down with them to discuss AI safety, timelines for artificial general intelligence and whether they fear becoming the Oppenheimers of our time, in a conversation for Visionaries Club.
How AI will divide the best from the rest: https://econ.st/3X8yVhv
After DeepSeek, America and the EU are getting AI wrong: https://econ.st/3ELKkgX
Chinese AI is catching up, posing a dilemma for Donald Trump: https://econ.st/4hUcDs0
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Google DeepMind and Anthropic founders, Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei are profoundly worried about how AGI will change the world. Our editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, asks whether they could become the Oppenheimers of our time, in a conversation for Visionaries Club
We investigate China’s under-the-radar push (https://www.economist.com/international/2025/02/09/chinas-stunning-new-campaign-to-turn-the-world-against-taiwan?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) to get other countries to change their official language on Taiwan’s independence. Would it make a difference in a bid to reunify by force? The case of a nurse jailed for killing babies exposes deep problems (https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/02/10/it-increasingly-looks-as-if-lucy-letbys-conviction-was-unsafe?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) with British justice (10:10). And how top footballers get a smaller slice (https://www.economist.com/business/2025/01/30/football-clubs-are-making-more-money-than-ever-players-not-so-much?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) of their clubs’ take than they once did (17:35).
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Backing away from European security guarantees and seeking mineral rights in Ukraine as recompense for military aid: at the Munich Security Conference the Trump administration made its convention-trashing, transactional nature clear (https://www.economist.com/international/2025/02/16/donald-trumps-assault-on-europe?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners). What Europe will or even can do is not so obvious. And a tribute to Donald Shoup (https://www.economist.com/obituary/2025/02/13/donald-shoup-knew-how-to-get-cities-going?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners), whose studies on keeping cars moving focused on where they parked (17:45).
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Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, explains why Donald Trump risks overturning the very basis of the NATO alliance’s mutual defence clause #uspolitics #geopolitics #trump #defence #nato #europe
Lab-grown diamonds have become increasingly popular in recent years but, with prices now falling, have they started to become too successful for their own good?
The American president and Indian prime minister have long been friends. But when the two met at the White House yesterday, they had many thorny issues (https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/02/11/is-maga-great-for-india?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) to discuss, including trade and immigration. Why the skies are getting smaller (https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2024/11/18/the-skies-are-getting-smaller-and-more-dangerous?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners)–and more crowded (10:40). And “Saturday Night Live” (https://www.economist.com/culture/2025/02/13/the-secret-to-the-success-of-saturday-night-live?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) at 50 (17:57).
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On February 12th, President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin, without co-ordinating the details beforehand with Ukraine, and announced that negotiations to end the war would start “immediately”.
It was exactly the sort of unilateral American move that, just hours earlier, Volodymyr Zelensky warned against in this interview with The Economist. “If Russia is left alone with America, Putin with Trump, or their teams, they will receive manipulative information,” the Ukrainian president warned.
During a 90-minute telephone conversation, the American and Russian presidents started negotiating (https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/02/12/donald-trump-starts-immediate-talks-with-vladimir-putin-on-ukraine?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) a future for Ukraine. What will this mean for Europe? Our correspondent interviews a leader (https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2025/02/06/a-leader-of-congos-rebels-vows-to-fight-on?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) of the Rwandan-backed rebel group M23 in Goma, Congo (9:44). And how Bridget Jones (https://www.economist.com/culture/2025/02/12/six-of-the-best-films-about-love?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) changed cinema (and Chardonnay) (18:08).
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