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Oct 2025
21m 9s

AI peak is peak AI

Financial Times & Pushkin Industries
About this episode

Is AI making everybody richer? Or just more entangled in each others’ business? Today on the show, Rob Armstrong and Lex editor John Foley try to untangle the growing web of companies investing in each other. Also they go long steak and long cocoa. 


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