“Global Risks Weekly Roundup #17/2025: India-Pakistan standoff, Iran and Ukraine talks, AI time horizons” by Nuño Sempere

Executive summary After a terrorist attack in Kashmir left 26 dead, relations between India and Pakistan sharply deteriorated, culminating in the exchange of fire across the border between the two countries. Forecasters examined the possibility of escalation. The third round of nuclear talks between the US and Iran concluded. On the same day, a blast at Iran's Bandar Abbas port left hundreds injured, while Trump had a positive face-to-face meeting with President Zelensky in the Vatican City following another rocky week for US-Ukraine relations. OpenAI's new models suggest that the length of tasks that AIs can do is now doubling roughly every four months. Geopolitics ---Outline:(00:16) Executive summary(01:01) Geopolitics(01:04) Asia(04:46) Europe(07:10) Middle East(09:22) United States(10:19) Africa(10:29) Technology(15:18) Global Economy(18:28) Bio --- First published: April 28th, 2025 Source: https://blog.sentinel-team.org/p/global-risks-weekly-roundup-172025 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.