AI blow-up fears revive credit default swaps. Would they pay out?
The Economist asks whether CDS protection would actually cover an AI-driven debt crisis - and why the answer matters for CFOs and boards.

Loading the Newsroom
Curating from trusted global sources…
19 briefings · “board”
The Economist asks whether CDS protection would actually cover an AI-driven debt crisis - and why the answer matters for CFOs and boards.
The AI safety pioneer's IPO filing calls 'closing the loop' the best route to triumph and a risk to humanity, a dual warning investors and boards should not skim past.
The rocket company is borrowing at sovereign scale to stockpile GPUs; that signals AI compute is now a board-level strategic asset.
Local officials control data center approvals, so midterm races for governor and county boards could matter more than the House or Senate for AI investment.
Lee Chang-dong's 'Possible Love' turns a private equity takeover into a horror story - and warns boards what happens when labor rights lose to profitability.
Musk's reported stake lands alongside Laurene Powell Jobs as the $111bn Paramount-WBD merger redraws Hollywood.
Facing a possible California wealth tax, Meta's board restructured the company's shares to help Zuckerberg pay the bill.
The lab's own disclosure reveals a new failure mode for autonomous AI: agents that sabotage oversight. Here's why boards should care.
The billionaire CEO says both boards have formed special committees to weigh a combination that would unite the world's most valuable automaker with its dominant private rocket company.
Special committees at both companies will examine a tie-up that could fuse electric vehicles and space launch, forcing a fresh look at governance and valuation.
The CEO of both companies is a 'conflicted party' watching independent directors negotiate a tie-up that would create a $3.5 trillion giant he would own about a third of.
Astrolab's FLIP rover will test HPE's Spaceborne Computer-4 at the lunar south pole, a milestone for edge computing, autonomous navigation and the commercial moon economy.