At this point Microsoft's reliance on OpenAI is strategic dependence without full control, said visiting senior lecturer Paul McDonagh-Smith. "Risks include model access risk, innovation lag, brand subordination and market power shifts if OpenAI continues to scale independently," he said.

The increased use of industrial robots may actually have a negative impact on the workforce, according to a study from Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu and co-author.

Senior lecturer Egor Matveyev said: "Effectively, the huge pay package Alex Karp received was in 2020. They were designed as very long-term stock awards with a very long-term vesting period."

Eric Rosengren joined Market Domination to discuss how rising inflation expectations and uncertainty around tariffs could raise the risk of recession.

“Remote, Inc.” is on this list of "books that offer insight and guidance for negotiating the work-life balance … "

John Parsons suggested that pinning hopes for a nuclear revival on individual states' willingness to shoulder the burden and risks of paying for another reactor ignores the necessity of state-driven funding and coordination.

"Chinese society has an incredibly high capacity for pain. There is one scenario in which stability breaks down and this is the scenario in which there is a serious split among top leaders, as happened in 1989."

Associate dean for climate and sustainability Christopher Knittel said: "The less we do domestically, the less capability we build domestically to provide clean energy resources, the worse off our industries will be in the future."

Speculation about new dominant currencies should be taken "cautiously," said professor Kristin Forbes, but there is more momentum behind the euro.