The best articles of the week: l'arte del bluff, la pasta al dente e i cripto baroni pompati di steroidi

Nella rassegna stampa di questa settimana, il confine tra realtà e finzione si assottiglia, che si tratti di investimenti trasformati in videogiochi, di un piano segreto in caso di guerra mondiale o della cottura scientifica degli spaghetti. L'intelligenza artificiale sembra essere ovunque e in nessun luogo al tempo stesso: onnipotente, fuori dal tempo, monopolistica, linguisticamente traballante e forse persino addestrata sulle vostre e-mail.

Lunedì 24 novembre 2025

• What do American CEOs really think about tariffs? (Wall Street Journal).
• Why has it become so hard to tell gambling from investing? (Bloomberg).❤️
• France is heavily indebted to the rest of the world, yet still comes out ahead. Explaining a paradox (The Conversation).
• AI: Maybe in the end, Google will take it all (The Information).❤️
• Marjorie Taylor Greene almost got the joke (The Atlantic).
• The banned Chinese bond tactic that turns an 8% yield into 16% is making a big comeback (Bloomberg).

Martedì 25 novembre 2025

• Trump's investment boom is only one-third real (Bloomberg).
• Roblox is a problem, but it's a symptom of something much worse (Platformer).❤️
• Understanding perfect pasta cooking through science (The Conversation).❤️
• Why high-schoolers prefer News Daddy to The New York Times (The Verge).❤️
• From the Balkans to Washington, the irresistible rise of a crypto baron under Trump (XXI).
• In reality, there is only one AI company (Wired).

Mercoledì 26 novembre 2025

• One chair for four: who will succeed Tim Cook at the helm of Apple? (Wall Street Journal).
• China is making trade impossible (Financial Times).❤️
• Jean Baudrillard, the philosopher who predicted artificial intelligence thirty years before ChatGPT (The Conversation).❤️
• Oracle-linked borrowing binge worries lenders (The Information).
• The AI boom is built on a serious linguistic mistake (The Verge).❤️

Giovedì 27 novembre 2025

• Chinese tech giants move AI model training abroad to tap Nvidia chips (Financial Times).
• A cascade of lies about turkeys (The Atlantic).
• The two Irishmen who nearly sank Nigeria (XXI).❤️
• Schneider will train thousands of electricians to meet data centre demand (Semafor).
• Trump TikTok challenge: watch the White House's worst posts (Intelligencer).
• AI is in the process of winning the copyright battle (Platformer).❤️
• Geothermal power's time has come (The Economist).

Venerdì 28 novembre 2025

• Has Brazil won the Taco Trade? (Financial Times).
• Why can't ChatGPT tell time? (Wired).❤️
• How much is a friend worth? About half a job (Klement on Investing).❤️
• Germany's secret plan in the event of war with Russia (Wall Street Journal).❤️
• What the golden age of travel looked like? (New York Times)
• How flattery became a big, beautiful industry (Financial Times).❤️