About this episode
Amazon’s new AI spending blitz sent shares tumbling, chipmakers got swept up in a wider tech equities sell-off, Sir Keir Starmer has apologised to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein for appointing Peter Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador to the US, and American snack companies are lowering prices ahead of the Super Bowl. Plus, can Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi win this weekend’s election on star power alone? Mentioned in this podcast:Amazon stock slumps as it prepares $200bn AI spending blitzArm CEO says AI software sell-off is ‘micro-hysteria’Nvidia AI chip sales to China stalled by US security reviewKeir Starmer apologises to victims of Jeffrey EpsteinFood and drink companies suffer as US shopper sentiment sinks
