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👋Good morning from the world’s busiest conference room. Picture the most awkward office party on Earth. Seventy-three heads of state, forty-five heads of government, around a thousand requests for "a quick word" and one building on Manhattan's East Side where nobody can agree on the playlist. That's UN General Assembly week, and yesterday it was in full, finger-jabbing swing. Energy, shipping and war dominated the speeches, and with the Strait of Hormuz still snarled, you've probably felt the fallout at the petrol pump and the checkout. But the corridors carried another hum too: who controls the powerful new technology everyone suddenly relies on, and who gets to write its rules? It's Thursday, the leaves are turning and the week is nearly spent. Grab a coffee (you've earned it) and let's see what the grown-ups got up to.
