Oxford ($OXM) podcast mentions
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I mean, oh, shocking. I mean, that's what it does. That's what all agents do. They wouldn't be very useful if they didn't. But it's probably true that people don't understand that that's what happens, and maybe they are shocked by that. Uh, is— I mean, Wired writes it as if it's a revelation. We are giving AI systems much more information about us than we, than we are getting information from them, says Carissa Vélez, an associate professor at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI. It's not only what we explicitly tell them, but what they can infer from us, correctly or incorrectly, both concerning for different reasons, and what they can piece together from other sources of data.
Leo Laporte · This Week in Tech (Audio) · Real Gs Move in Silence Like Lasagna - An AI Data Center in Space? · 2026-10-05But the starlings that I want to talk about today are not of the musical celebrity variety. It's the working parent. On an ordinary day flying back and forth to a nest that's full of baby chicks. And ecologists call this feeding strategy a central place forager, which means the bird doesn't eat where it finds food. It has to carry it home. So every trip the starling is running a particular calculus, like, do I dig out one more insect or do I fly back now with what I've found? Or do I try a new place entirely? So in the 1980s at Oxford, ecologists put that question to the test and they put these feeders out at different distances from the nest. and they measured what the parents carried home. And for a long flight, the birds would stay longer and stuff their bills more, and then for shorter flights, they'd bring back smaller loads and they'd make more frequent trips back and forth, which kind of seems right, feels obvious. But, uh, the load size matched a model of the birds maximizing the energy that would be delivered to the nest per unit of time.
Jake Taylor · The Acquirers Podcast · Great Companies, Beaten-Down Stocks: Booking & Pool Corp with Jonathan Boyar · 2026-10-01Then there's investment spending. Bernard Yarros with Oxford Economics says businesses have been investing a lot in inventories. When you look at a lot of the survey data, businesses are saying that their inventories are quite low, which means that they need to restock. Yarros says there's also been plenty of investment in AI, spending on data centers and all the equipment that goes into them. But he says a lot of that spending is boosting GDP more in Taiwan and Korea and other countries that make that equipment. I just think we have to be careful not to overstate the benefits to growth in the economy because a lot of the AI spending by businesses is imported from abroad. A lot of the factors that are powering growth right now also might not last. Matthew Miskin with Manulife John Hancock Investments says consumers might not keep spending the way they have been.
Justin Ho · Marketplace · Consumer confidence slides to 12-year low · 2026-09-29Now, there are a couple signs that the consumer could start to slow down a little bit here. Not necessarily that spending growth would go negative, but not grow as quickly. So research from Oxford Economics shows that the added costs of higher gasoline prices this year is about to surpass the additional size of tax refunds that people got. So that extra 15% in tax refunds is about to be fully eclipsed by the extra money that they're spending on gasoline because of those higher gas prices this year. And then at the same time, you've got the savings rate down to 3%. That's near one of the lowest rates in history. So consumers might be saving less to support spending right now.
Michael Normile · IBKR Podcasts · What the Headlines Are Missing About Inflation · 2026-09-29Average diesel prices on UK forecourts is now within touching distance of £2 a liter. For American listeners, that works out at roughly $10 a gallon compared with the average US price of around $6.50. President Trump says he's looking very seriously at a short-term ban on US diesel exports, with his administration analyzing the potential impact. Bloomberg understands the UK government has privately asked Washington for an exemption if restrictions go ahead. Without an exemption, the impact could be significant. Oxford Economics and Goldman Sachs estimate a full US ban could raise European wholesale diesel prices by 40 to 50%, and that could add as much as 50 pence a liter to the price for motorists. In Brussels, I'm Ewan Potts, Bloomberg Radio.
Ewan Potts · Bloomberg News Now · Treasuries Stabilise, UK Lobbies US On Diesel, More · 2026-09-29This week I am talking to Jenny Bates, a very senior civil servant in the UK government, but speaking in her personal capacity today. So Jenny spent 5 years as director of the UK Foreign Office and has just done the Heywood Fellowship at Oxford University, where essentially she got to think big thoughts about Britain's place in the world. And how it should adapt to a changing geopolitical seascape. Jenny, welcome.
Soumaya Keynes · The Economics Show · How to be a middle power in a superpower world. With Jenny Bates · 2026-09-25Yeah. At Yale, we're seeing pressure on not getting academics in, on some academics feeling not comfortable. We had one who left for Oxford and Cambridge, people who left to go to Canada. That should not be happening. The Premier League in English soccer, is the best league in the world, not because of English players, because they have Norwegian players, they have Egyptian players, they have people from Ghana. Basically, they don't care. They want the best people. And that's what we have always been and need to continue to be.
Kevin Ryan · The Tim Ferriss Show · #884: How to Spot 10-Year Trends and Build Billion-Dollar Companies — Kevin Ryan of DoubleClick, MongoDB, Business Insider, and Many More · 2026-09-24So let's break that down because it seems like, okay, fine, consumers must be spending a lot. And of course the answer is the consumers are actually more nervous than they've been in a long time and sit with relatively high levels of debt. And so it's like, well, wait a minute, where is this inflation coming from? So if you break it down and sort of tear apart the pieces, pieces of this, you find out that the two largest pieces that are driving inflation in the United States over the last year are— well, you'll sort of sing along with me on the chorus— is AI capex, which is driving energy prices higher, which is driving all sorts of externalities across the economy. It's driving all sorts of services higher, construction costs, materials. All of those are being driven higher. And then this is the sneaky one. The other piece is obviously energy in the context of the war in Iran, which is the other big piece. And you can argue, and I did last week at a thing I was doing in Oxford, that in a sense, that's also AI-related.
Paul Kedrosky · Better Offline · The Hidden Recession Beneath The AI Bubble w/ Paul Kedrosky · 2026-09-23No, it wasn't. So I actually, when I grew up in Oxford and Bristol when I was younger, then I moved back to Beijing. So between 5 and 6.
Geoff Yu · Bloomberg Surveillance · Market Trends amid Global Uncertainty · 2026-09-22