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In this podcast episode, senior lecturer Jonathan Ruane discussed the multibillion-dollar race to build the next generation of computing, how geopolitical competition is shaping the industry, and whether the technology can live up to its revolutionary promise.

Professor Paul Osterman joined this radio broadcast episode of 1A to discuss his new book "Disposable Workers" and what it means to be an "essential worker."

Principal research scientist Michael Siegel and research affiliate Sander Zeijlemaker wrote: "Organizations can start building cyber resilience today by connecting dependency, threat, and operational data, while also testing disruption and propagation scenarios. They must also define the defensive decisions AI can make versus those where human oversight is required. And they must identify trusted partners for sharing defensive insights or capabilities."

Professor Jonathan Parker said there is a sweet spot level for crypto exposure in a diversified retirement portfolio: "Yes, zero." Parker, whose research spans portfolio choice, personal finance, retirement finance and Bitcoin, is unusually blunt about where the cryptocurrency belongs. But it's a view shared by the average citizen.

Patrick Yeung (MBA '26) said: "I chose MIT Sloan to engage with a community of builders. I felt it was important to focus on creating a network that was very different from my existing one in the consulting and advisory world. MIT Sloan, with its rich entrepreneurship ecosystem and the talent it attracts, has allowed me to do just that while also exploring a new city, focusing on sustainability work, and testing whether I'd enjoy working as a joiner instead of a founder."

Turning a company into an agentic enterprise isn't just a tech upgrade — it's a massive economic bet in compute, talent, and time. Should businesses go all in from day one, or build it out in stages? On this podcast episode, principal research scientist Neil Thompson discussed the smartest way to place that bet.

In Houston gas cost nearly $1.10 more on August 31 than it did on the day before the war began, according to data from GasBuddy. A one-dollar increase in prices equates to $60 more a month for the average household, said associate dean Christopher Knittel. Rural drivers pump more gas, driving more miles in less fuel-efficient vehicles, according to Knittel.

In almost every large economy, making steel, cement, aluminum, and fertilizer releases large amounts of carbon, and those emissions cost their producers very little. Any government that starts charging for it expects to lose the business to one that doesn't. Professor Catherine Wolfram and co-authors of a new study published in Science calculate that a group of countries could charge together instead. Their model uses data from individual plants and the trade running between them.

Professor Simon Johnson and co-author wrote: "The only stable solution to this crisis is one that involves China and increases economic integration in the region, as well as addressing the nuclear issue by integrating Iran's program into a regional civilian electricity production supply chain led by China."

In this podcast episode of Bloomberg's Sustainability Currents, professor of the practice Gary Gensler examined how the SEC can balance its three key mandates: investor protection, capital formation, and fair, orderly, and efficient markets.