Systemic Vulnerability: When Predictability Fails

Today's episode unpacks the interconnected fragility of energy markets, AI development, and cybersecurity, revealing how traditional risk models are failing to account for geopolitical shocks and rapidly evolving threats. We examine the seven-month deadline to avoid an energy crisis, the unsustainable cost of AI compute, and the market forces transforming ransomware into a sophisticated tool of economic warfare. Topic timings are added automatically.

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0:00 - Introduction
1:12 - Geopolitical Risk & Energy Markets
9:14 - AI-Driven Disruption & Economic Repricing
16:59 - The New Digital Battlefield: Cyber Warfare & Economic Crime
21:49 - Conclusion

Referenced sources:
Q1 2026 Venture Funding Hits $300B Record (AI Insights: AI News, Eyewitness Accounts)
Stocks, Oil Whipsaw With Iran Deadline in Focus (Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia Edition)
Ferraris, Advil, and AI Chips 10 Companies to Watch Right Now (Bloomberg Intelligence)
Single Best Idea with Tom Keene Eric Van Nostrand & Scott DiMaggio (Bloomberg Surveillance)
Bloomberg Surveillance TV April 6th, 2026 (Bloomberg Surveillance)
Natural Gas in Focus Iran Conflict Could Have 'Very Painful' Consequences (Exchanges)
Why AI Will Reprice The Entire Economy Jordi Visser (Forward Guidance)
Steve Kamin and Mark Sobel on the Outlook of Dollar Dominance (Macro Musings with David Beckworth)
How to Invest When Nothing Makes Sense (Prof G Markets)
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How ransomware took the world economy hostage (The Big View)
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Bits + Bips Why the Drift Hack Is an 'Embarrassment for the Industry' (Unchained)
How 'Booth Babes' Can Result in Huge Hacks Like Drift's (Unchained)
Reopening the Strait of Hormuz & Saving Downed Pilots (War on the Rocks)

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