🔮 Softbank’s billions; co-living; platform economies; safe AI; Russian meddling; atoms, mosquitoes, urbanisation++ #185

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The Exponential View podcast is back. Weekly, long-form conversations with world experts on exploring the new political economy of the information age.

The first episode is a MUST LISTEN discussion with Dr Kai-Fu Lee, on entrepreneurship in China, which nation is winning the AI race, and how to get AI to work for humanity.

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💲💲💲 Masayoshi Son, Softbank’s boss, announces he plans to raise a new $100bn fund every couple of years, investing $50bn a year.

🏁 China’s quantum future. China’s plans to become a quantum computing superpower may involve tens of billions of dollars of investments over the coming years. Their “national strategy for 'innovation-driven” development' may help them surpass the West." This strategy includes state-directed university research, influencing the private tech giants and a “civil-military fusion”. (This week, the US did step up and gathered tech leaders for a discussio…