An enormous sell-off wipes trillions of dollars off stock values amid fears of an AI slowdown, following the Democrats’ success in the US midterm elections.

What role did the data centre revolt have and could space offer an answer?

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00:36 – What happened to the US stock market

02:08 – What happened in Asia

03:06 – How worried should we be

04:02 – What is a data centre?

05:02 – Impact of data centre revolt on US midterms

06:25 – Is the AI bubble bursting?

07:54 – President Trump backs AI

08:39 – Impact on AI if the US builds fewer data centres

09:55 – What’s the solution – data centres in space?

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Five people have been killed after a shooting in Krakow’s Main Market Square and around a dozen people are injured, including police officers, Małopolska Police said.

Posting on X, the police department said in a statement that at around 15:00 local time that a man who had driven onto the square began “firing at random people from his car”.

The perpetrator was shot by police and is being transported to hospital, another statement said.

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Democrats say they want to end the war in Iran as one of their top priorities, after taking control of Congress in US midterm …

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Preppers have long been planning for the worst-case scenario. Are governments now doing the same?  

The UK government has launched a national “Be Ready” campaign, urging people to keep enough food, water and medicine at home to prepare for three days of disruption.

Other European countries have similar policies. But for preppers, whose mission it is to ready themselves for a future disaster, this is old news. Have the preppers been vindicated? And what exactly are we prepping for?

Tristan Redman speaks to Lucy Easthope about her role as a disaster planning expert and Gabriel Gatehouse joins us in the studio to talk about what he’s learnt from interviewing British preppers.

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0:00 – Introduction to episode
0:44 – Lucy Easthope explains Nick Bostrom’s Vulnerable World Hypothesis
2:22 – What is a disaster planner?
3:11 – What are the most likely threats to civilisation today in Northern Europe and the US?
5:11 – What exactly are the UK government advising people to do?
7:05 – Why is the UK acting right now?
9:10 – Is the government doing anything to help us?
12:45 – Gabriel Gatehouse chats to Tristan in the studio
13:12 – What is a prepper?
14:57 – What are the tech CEO’s doing to prepare?
20:03 – What can the everyday person do to prepare for a possible coming storm?

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An attack in Krakow’s Main Market Square on Saturday has left six people dead.

Police said a 25-year-old man drove into the square “before beginning to fire at random people from his car”.

Poland’s Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński said the suspect is a Polish national.

He added that it looks like he held “very radical views” and that everything indicates he was inspired by “far-right ideologies”.

One of the six people killed in the attack has been identified as a British national.

The head of Poland’s police force, Marek Boroń, says 16 more people were injured, including two police officers, five foreign nationals and the suspect.

Krakow is also holding two days of mourning, with businesses in the city closed today after the attack.

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