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The Economist.

Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Much of the talk about artificial intelligence is about the software, but it all runs on increasingly specialized hardware, much of it made by Invidia.

We look at the plans of its charismatic co-founder to make hay while the AI sun is absolutely blazing.

And America has a troubling shortage in one of its more unglomerous but critical professions.

Accountants. We ask why the ranks are thinning and what the industry is doing to get them back in and bean counting.

But first...

You might say it was the technology that most transformed geopolitics.

The nuclear bomb,ancing defense, danger, deterrence, has been a preoccupation

of every occupant of America's Oval Office since the start of the Cold War. From Dwight

Eisenhower, the United States, taking account of the Geneva conclusions, is prepared to proceed promptly

to negotiate an agreement with other nations, which have tested nuclear weapons.

To Jimmy Carter.

Preventing nuclear war is the foremost responsibility of the two superpowers.

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