Cryptic message: why arrest Telegram’s founder?
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:06.1 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:16.0 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:26.0 | 2023. VP.com slash and not all. The Economist. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm your host Rosie Bloor. |
| 0:48.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. |
| 1:00.0 | What do Central Bankers do for fun? Our correspondent went to the annual Jamboree of monetary policy specialists |
| 1:04.6 | to find out what counts a small talk when you've got the world's wealth in your coffers |
| 1:08.4 | and what's keeping at least some of them awake at night. |
| 1:11.6 | And each week we've been answering your questions about |
| 1:16.2 | artificial intelligence. Today we have a query about how AI might be able to help |
| 1:21.5 | people with various types of disability. |
| 1:24.0 | But first. |
| 1:40.0 | He's known as Russia's Mark Zuckerberg. |
| 1:45.0 | Pavel Durov is the founder of telegram. |
| 1:48.0 | He left Russia ten years ago and he and the social media app he still runs are now based in Dubai. |
| 1:55.0 | Until recently he didn't speak to the media much, |
| 1:58.0 | preferring instead to post shirtless selfies on Instagram. |
| 2:02.0 | Who needs to talk to the press when you're worth an estimated 15.5 billion dollars? |
| 2:07.0 | But all that wealth and influence didn't stop Durov being arrested on Saturday |
| 2:12.0 | after his private jet landed in Paris. |
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