🔮 The Sunday edition #518: Tariffs & a spikier world; Pascal’s AI wager; Zhipu, Manus & Taiwan raids; solar plants, MCP, telepathy++

An insider’s guide to AI and exponential technologies

Hi, it’s Azeem. American tariffs have just reached heights not seen since 1909, revealing the painful transition from Friedman’s “flat world” to what I call a “spikier world.” Treasury Secretary Bessent wasn’t exaggerating when he predicted “a grand economic reordering.” Simultaneously, OpenAI’s jaw-dropping $40 billion raise turns AI into a modern Pascal’s Wager. On this and more in today’s edition – get some distance from the headlines of the week.