Updated
Updated · Financial Times · Jun 11
FTAV Publishes 8-Item Further Reading List on AI, Oil and Prediction Markets
Updated
Updated · Financial Times · Jun 11

FTAV Publishes 8-Item Further Reading List on AI, Oil and Prediction Markets

1 articles · Updated · Financial Times · Jun 11

Summary

  • Eight external reads led FTAV’s latest further-reading roundup, spanning AI investment, oil-market anomalies, prediction markets, climate research and space-related topics.
  • The list highlighted Berenberg on whether the US AI investment boom can sustain rapid growth and Kardamow on Brent crude falling despite 11 million barrels disappearing.
  • Other selections covered Carlyle on the “abundance illusion,” a study finding no rural-urban divide on climate change, and a piece arguing prediction markets let the powerful “buy truth.”
  • Bryce Elder published the curation as Alphaville’s regular link roundup, ending with lighter items on siloxane and a satirical note about wanting to try cake.

Insights

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