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Young: Iran's Hormuz Leverage Leaves Gulf States Exposed

President Trump has warned the US could reimpose a blockade on Iran as tensions persist over the Strait of Hormuz. Karen Young, Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, tells Bloomberg's Abeer Abu Omar on Horizons Middle East and Africa that Iran appears unwilling to give up its leverage over the waterway, leaving Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar at a disadvantage.

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Can India Leverage Talent to Catch Up in the AI Race?

India faces a critical question: should it invest in building its own, frontier AI models despite shortfalls in chips, infrastructure and funding? In the first episode of Bloomberg's Emerging podcast, Menaka Doshi dives into whether sovereignty, security, and long term competitiveness justify the push. She sits down in Mumbai with Srikanth Velamakanni, co founder of Fractal Analytics, India's first publicly listed pure-play AI company, and Ganesh Ramakrishnan, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay and a member of India's BharatGen AI taskforce.

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Should India Build Frontier AI Models Despite Challenges?

India faces a critical question in artificial intelligence: should it invest in building frontier AI models despite gaps in chips, compute, and funding? This segment examines whether sovereignty, security, and long term competitiveness justify the push. As global AI power concentrates in a few countries, dependence on foreign systems raises risks for defense, data control, and economic resilience. Srikanth Velamakanni, Co founder of Fractal Analytics and NASSCOM Chairperson, and Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Professor at IIT Bombay and BharatGen member, speak with Menaka Doshi on Emerging.

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