Cryptic message: why arrest Telegram’s founder?
Economist Podcasts
The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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As Pavel Durov sits in a French cell waiting to find out if he will be charged, our correspondent probes the links between Telegram and Russia. What central bankers and monetary policy specialists have been talking about at their annual jamboree at Jackson Hole (9:16). And we answer another listener question: how might Artificial Intelligence help people with disabilities (16:19)?
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| 1:08.1 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Rosie Bloor. Every weekday, |
| 1:14.4 | we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. What do central bankers do for fun? |
| 1:25.8 | Our correspondent went to the annual jamboree of monetary policy specialists |
| 1:29.3 | to find out what counts a small talk when you've got the world's wealth in your coffers |
| 1:33.3 | and what's keeping at least some of them awake at night. |
| 1:37.3 | And each week we've been answering your questions about artificial intelligence. |
| 1:43.3 | Today we have a query about how |
| 1:45.6 | AI might be able to help people with various types of disability. But first... He's known as Russia's Mark Zuckerberg. |
| 2:11.3 | Pavoldurov is the founder of Telegram. He left Russia 10 years ago and he and the social media |
| 2:17.2 | app he still runs are now based in Dubai. |
| 2:20.8 | Until recently, he didn't speak to the media much, preferring instead to post shirtless selfies on Instagram. |
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