Ecuador’s ‘unprecedented’ Mexican embassy raid
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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OpenAI and Meta are on the brink of releasing new artificial intelligence models, police in Ecuador stormed the Mexican embassy to arrest the former vice-president, and big investors are selling US Treasuries and buying European government bonds. Plus, Australia is trying to boost its manufacturing sector to protect against supply chain disruptions.
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OpenAI and Meta ready new AI models capable of ‘reasoning’
Ecuador’s president displays strongman credentials with Mexico embassy raid
Big investors buy European bonds over US as economies diverge
‘Made in Australia’ drive aims to shift economy from ‘world’s quarry’ label
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.0 | Learn more at equinore. |
| 0:10.0 | At Aquinore. UK. Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Wednesday, April 10th, and this is your |
| 0:18.1 | FT news briefing. AI is getting closer to superhuman learning and Australia wants to start making its |
| 0:27.4 | goods at home again. Plus Ecuador's new president gambled big by storming the Mexican embassy. |
| 0:34.4 | It's a massive deal. |
| 0:36.8 | It's practically unprecedented at a state level. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm Sonia Hudson and here's the news you need to start your day. Open AI and Meta are getting close to releasing new artificial intelligence models |
| 1:05.0 | that are capable of reasoning. |
| 1:07.0 | This is a big step towards creating AI that has superhuman abilities. |
| 1:12.0 | Meta will launch its new tool called Lama 3 in the next few weeks. |
| 1:18.0 | And Open AI says its chat GPT 5 is coming soon. In just one example, Meta says it plans to integrate it into smart glasses. |
| 1:27.0 | The idea being that you could look at a broken coffee machine and the glasses would tell you how to fix it. |
| 1:34.0 | Police in Ecuador stormed their way into the Mexican embassy late last Friday night. |
| 1:45.6 | They were after the country's former Vice President Jorge Glass. |
| 1:50.0 | Mexico had granted him asylum after he was charged with corruption. The country has |
| 1:54.4 | since cut diplomatic ties with Ecuador. The episode made people sit up and pay |
| 1:59.8 | attention to Ecuador's new president Daniel Naboa. Here to talk to me about the |
| 2:04.5 | situation is the F.T's Joe Daniels. Hey Joe. Hey Sonia. So Joe bring us up to |
| 2:11.0 | speed here. Who exactly is Jorge Glass and how big of a deal was this raid? |
| 2:17.0 | Jorge Glass is an Ecuadorian politician. He served as Vice President of Ecuador from 2013 to 2017 during the government of the leftist |
| 2:29.2 | authoritarian really Raphael Correa who is a very influential figure in |
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