2025-10-01
22 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Jason Palmer.
And I'm Rosie Bloor.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
There's a simple fact about the large language models behind the generative AI explosion.
They don't distinguish between data and instructions.
That makes for a gaping security flaw in all of them that researchers don't quite see how to fix.
And if you've ever watched or been engaged in an office feud,
you'd better listen to our management columnist explain how to prevent them.
Never call someone a moron is a good start.
But first, the Republicans said they didn't want it.
If the government shuts down, it is on the Senate Democrats.
The House has acted, the President's ready to sign the bill.
And so did the Democrats.
We stand ready to work with Republicans to find a bipartisan compromise in the balls in their court.
But that compromise wasn't forthcoming, and the budget bill didn't get approval.
The US government has officially been shut down,
which means that at midnight in Washington DC, money to federal agencies simply stopped.
And Donald Trump is threatening irreversible cuts.