{"id":539436,"date":"2026-07-08T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/539436\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:41:07","slug":"ai-boom-offers-rare-bright-spot-for-global-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/539436\/","title":{"rendered":"AI boom offers rare bright spot for global economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"HRFNBW2OOFDMRJH25YZAIE24BQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The U.S.-led investment boom in artificial intelligence is helping the global economy weather the worst effects of the war with Iran, the International Monetary Fund said today.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3OEEPHPTJ5ENBKSWAUQL7XK6UY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Global growth this year will slip to 3 percent, down from 3.5 percent last year, before rebounding to 3.4 percent next year, the fund said. The new figures reflect slightly slower growth this year and a bit faster recovery in 2027 compared with the IMF\u2019s April forecast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S.-led investment boom in artificial intelligence is helping the global economy weather the worst effects of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-539436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}