Mass Blackouts in Venezuela

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Mass blackouts have plunged much of Venezuela into darkness; we hear from Mary Beth Sheridan from the Washington Post who's in Caracas. Norway's $1tn sovereign wealth fund is expected to sell some of its oil and gas holdings. Richard Milne is the Nordic and Baltic correspondent for the Financial Times, and tells us what's behind the fund's decision. On International Women's Day, we hear from serving military officer Debs Taylor, who was the inspiration for the latest in a series of gender busting careers books for children, My Mummy is a Soldier, as well as the book's author Jason Bryan. Plus we look back at the rest of the week's big business stories with Melody Hahm, senior writer at Yahoo Finance, and Joseph Wallace of the Wall Street Journal. Some in the tech sector are warning that if we continue to let artificial intelligence develop the way we do now, we might not like where it takes us. Kai Rysdal from our US partner programme Marketplace caught up with author and futurist Amy Webb who is concerned about the development of AI being concentrated within a very small number of powerful firms. Also in the programme, a new platform called Organise, which enables workers to band together, has been gaining in popularity. Organise's founder Nat Whalley explains how the app works. And we are joined throughout the programme by Colin Peacock, presenter of Media Watch on Radio New Zealand. Pic Description: Venezuela power outage. A patient looks out from a window at Miguel Perez Carreno hospital, in Caracas, during the worst power outage in Venezuela's history Photo credit: MATIAS DELACROIX/AFP/Getty Images