Holy smoke! An American pope
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🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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The choice of Robert Prevost reflects a desire for unity and compromise. But insofar as Pope Leo XIV represents a middle path, how will he lead on the church’s trickiest questions? The Trump administration has axed Biden-era export controls on AI chips. Good. Now they must enact simpler, more-effective ones (11:29). And remembering Martin Graham, founder of the Longborough Festival Opera (19:34).
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| 1:05.6 | The Economist. |
| 1:15.4 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:22.0 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:32.8 | The race for dominance in artificial intelligence is not only about who's making the best AI chips, |
| 1:35.1 | but also who can get their hands on them. |
| 1:40.9 | America is finding out that controlling that is harder than it is for lots of other sensitive tech. |
| 1:47.0 | And for many people, an opera house is where the art is expressed. |
| 1:50.9 | For Martin Graham, the venue itself could be a work of art. |
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