Dispatch from Digital Planet: November 2025

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Dispatch from Digital Planet: November 2025

November 10, 2025

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PERSPECTIVES

Everything Connected: Building Systems to Create Jobs | The Development Podcast: Bhaskar Chakravorti

World Bank Group

In this World Bank Development Podcast episode, Bhaskar Chakravorti joins leaders like Ajay Banga and ministers from Nigeria and Egypt to explore how building job ecosystems—combining infrastructure, “small-AI” tools, and agribusiness like AgriConnect—can catalyze sustainable employment growth across developing economies.

How to make AI more useful: Bhaskar Chakravorti

Foreign Policy

Amid rising apprehensions about an impending AI Bubble, Bhaskar Chakravorti examines the smaller, more compelling use cases of AI across sectors and discusses the need for a change in the industry's approach towards developing solutions

IN CONVERSATION

Expert Decodes A.I Bubble Theory & Its Impact

In an in-depth discussion on CNBC-TV18's Global Lens, Bhaskar Chakravorti decodes the talk of the AI Bubble, examines the challenges tech companies are facing and discusses the implications for the American economy.

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IN THE NEWS

The geopolitics of Starlink in Bangladesh | The Business Standard

What Zohran Mamdani's big win means for Main Street small business owners | CNBC

WHAT WE'RE READING

AI pioneers claim human-level general intelligence is already here | The Financial Times

The AI Data Center Boom Is Warping the US Economy | WIRED

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