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The AI race has a common thread: India.

At almost every leading AI company, people of Indian origin hold key roles, from CEO to the engineers building the models.

A thread 🧵👇

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@FT The power stakes: the Electric Power Research Institute estimates data centres could use up to 9% of US electricity by 2030, roughly double today's share.

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@UNFPA Most women go through menopause between ages 45 and 55, and by 2030, an estimated 1.2 billion women worldwide will be postmenopausal.

Source: WHO

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@newscientist The 1876–78 El Niño drought and famine are estimated to have killed tens of millions of people across India, China and Brazil, one of the deadliest climate events in modern history.

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@stats_feed Why results like this matter: the IDF estimates 589 million adults lived with diabetes in 2024, a figure projected to reach 853 million by 2050.

Source: IDF Diabetes Atlas

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@washingtonpost The full CDC estimate behind that 48 million: about 128,000 hospitalisations and 3,000 deaths in the US each year.

Source: CDC

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Actually the opposite: by 1985 the wild colony was collapsing from canine distemper and plague, and capture was the last option to save the species.

Captive breeding has since produced thousands of kits, and a few hundred black-footed ferrets now live in the wild at several reintroduction sites. The species isn't extinct; it just hasn't held on at Meeteetse.

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Breaking! 113 confirmed attacks. 24 seafarers killed. 3 ships sunk. Strait of Hormuz, 2026.

Attacks on merchant ships around the Strait of Hormuz, per the UN's International Maritime Organization:

26 Jun: 40+ attacks, 14 seafarers killed
17 Sep: 80 attacks, 22 killed
14 Oct: 113 incidents, 24 killed

3 commercial ships have been sunk. The latest, the Singapore-flagged GFS Pride, went down this week. All 21 crew were rescued. 👇

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@theepicmap Movable-type printing: Bi Sheng invented it in China around the 1040s, roughly 400 years before Gutenberg's press.

It's one of the "Four Great Inventions," alongside paper, gunpowder and the compass.

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Why so high? Singapore benchmarks ministerial pay to the salaries of its top 1,000 earners, aiming to attract talent and deter corruption.

It last changed pay in 2012, when ministers took a 36% cut.

Sources: Reuters

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Singapore's Prime Minister is now the world's best-paid leader by far.

From 15 October, his pay rose 64% to S$3.6 million (about US$2.85 million) a year.

Hong Kong Chief Executive: $719,000
Swiss President: $606,000
US President: $400,000
UK Prime Minister: $230,000
Indian Prime Minister: around ₹20 lakh (about $23,000)

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The Prime Minister of Singapore travels on a budget airline for official duties, opting for a standard flight without luxury, a large entourage, or taxpayer expense. This exemplifies how to earn respect. 🫡

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@stats_feed Two of those came with Nobel Prizes: Albert Szent-Györgyi won Medicine in 1937 for his vitamin C work, and Dennis Gabor won Physics in 1971 for holography.

And Ernő Rubik's 1974 cube has about 43 quintillion possible positions.

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@WSJ It's unusual: for years, recent college graduates had lower unemployment than workers overall. In recent data from the New York Fed, they've been higher.

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@allie__voss The same Harvard Business School study found those tactics worked: they boosted users' post-goodbye engagement by up to 14 times.

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@newscientist And they're already in our blood: a 2022 Dutch study found plastic particles in the blood of 17 of 22 healthy volunteers.

The world produces roughly 460 million tonnes of plastic a year, per the OECD.

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@UNGeneva Part of the reason: cities trap heat. The US EPA estimates urban daytime temperatures run about 1–7°F (0.5–4°C) higher than in surrounding areas, the "heat island" effect.

And by 2050, the UN projects about two-thirds of humanity will live in urban areas.

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@pewresearch The twist in this chart: only 13% say meeting new people is a major reason they go, yet 54% say feeling accepted is a reason.

People go to belong, not to make new friends.

And a third admit drama is part of the appeal.

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@TheEconomist The numbers behind it: US diesel hit an all-time weekly record of $6.53 a gallon in late September, in EIA data going back to 1994.

Even after easing to about $6.20 in early October, it was still $2.49 higher than a year earlier.

Source: EIA

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@washingtonpost Over the full year, the gap is wider: prices up 3.7%, hourly pay up about 3%, so real hourly earnings are down 0.7% from last September.

Energy is the main driver: petrol averaged $4.33 a gallon in September.

Source: BLS; AAA

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@IMFNews The new IMF outlook in one chart: global growth slows to 3.1% in 2026, while India leads the major economies at 7.4%.

China 4.5%, US 2.3%, EU 1.4%, UK 1.3%. 👇