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Despite presidential animus, America’s solar industry is buzzing
And investment is on the rise
How the migrant crackdown threatens America Inc
Modelo has been America’s favourite beer ever since Bud Light enraged conservative imbibers in 2023 with a “woke” social-media campaign featuring a trans woman. Now Constellation Brands, which owns the Modelo brand in America, also finds itself a victim of…
How Trump’s migrant crackdown threatens America Inc
Modelo has been America’s favourite beer ever since Bud Light enraged conservative imbibers in 2023 with a “woke” social-media campaign featuring a trans woman. Now Constellation Brands, which owns the Modelo brand in America, also finds itself a victim of…
The market for startup shares is getting even weirder
Investors want access to the hottest unlisted companies, however they can get it
How much trouble is the world’s biggest offshore-wind developer in?
Foul winds keep blowing Orsted’s way. On August 22nd Donald Trump’s administration ordered the offshore-wind developer to stop work on its $4bn Revolution Wind project off the coast of New England. The development, which is part-owned by BlackRock, an American…
Service stations are getting a glow-up
The Tesla Diner, an electric-vehicle (EV) charging hub and roadside restaurant that opened in July in Los Angeles, is not your typical service station. The architecture is sleek and retro-futuristic. The menu offers traditional diner fare with a deluxe twist…
Service stations are receiving a glow-up
The Tesla Diner, an electric-vehicle (EV) charging hub and roadside restaurant that opened in July in Los Angeles, is not your typical service station. The architecture is sleek and retro-futuristic. The menu offers traditional diner fare with a deluxe twist…
Donald Trump, friend of the EV?
Having once described Joe Biden’s electric-vehicle (EV) policies as “lunacy”, Donald Trump briefly seemed to be softening his opposition when he bought himself a Tesla in March. It was his way of helping Elon Musk, the carmaker’s boss and Mr…
How China became an innovation powerhouse
Its state-led model has generated impressive results. But the costs are mounting
To survive, Intel must break itself apart
Intel once set the pace of technological progress. Gordon Moore, one of its founders, predicted in 1965 that chips would get faster and cheaper with metronomic consistency. Over the decades Intel brought Moore’s Law to life, designing and building the…
The last days of brainstorming
Alan: Let’s get going. We’ve all had a chance to think of some fresh names for our new value-added membership service. The last time we met we talked about calling it Gold or Platinum: if it works for the likes…
China is quietly upstaging America with its open models
While American tech giants are spending megabucks to learn the secrets of their rivals’ proprietary artificial-intelligence (AI) models, in China a different battle is under way. It is what Andrew Ng, a Stanford University-based AI boffin, recently called the “Darwinian…
Big chocolate has a growing taste for lab-grown cocoa
The first half of the scientific name for the fiendishly fickle cocoa tree means “food of the gods”. By the time Theobrama cacao was christened by Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish naturalist, in 1753, wealthy Europeans, like the Mayans before them,…
Trump wants to command bosses like Xi does. He is failing
Ignore for a moment Donald Trump’s shakedown of Nvidia, in which he has allowed the world’s most valuable firm to resume limited exports of its artificial-intelligence (AI) chips to China in return for giving a 15% cut of the proceeds…
A new wave of clean-energy innovation is building
Donald Trump’s attacks on wind and solar will not stop it
Should you trust that five-star rating on Airbnb?
It’s summer in the northern hemisphere. And as holidaymakers travel to unfamiliar places, that means demand for online customer reviews. Want to find a restaurant that won’t give everyone food poisoning, or the perfect accommodation for a city break, or…
What might Trumpian meddling mean for Intel?
The president is behaving like an activist investor on Wall Street
A 400-year-old Chinese cough syrup is winning over Westerners
The recipe for Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa has not changed since it was first concocted in the 1600s. Yet the sweet Chinese cough syrup, which has the colour and consistency of mud, is enjoying a renewed surge in popularity….
Japan’s carmakers are trying to tinker their way out of tariff pain
Ever since Toyota entered America in the 1950s, the country has been a vital market for it. The carmaker, which sells more vehicles worldwide than any other, hawks around a quarter of its cars there. That makes President Donald Trump’s…
Trump wants to command bosses like Xi. He is failing
Ignore for a moment Donald Trump’s shakedown of Nvidia, in which he has allowed the world’s most valuable firm to resume limited exports of its artificial-intelligence (AI) chips to China in return for a 15% cut of the proceeds for…
How AI could create the first one-person unicorn
The technology is allowing entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses on their own
McDonald’s secret sauce—plus a pickle or two
THE success of the Golden Arches rests on three simple, sturdy foundations: a menu of reliably decent grub, at a decent price, shored up by catchy marketing. Ever since it went public in 1965, McDonald’s has done best whenever it…
South America is fast becoming the world’s hottest oil patch
BP’s big new discovery in Brazil adds to the excitement
Uber is readying itself for the driverless age—again
“Always be hustlin’, ” was the credo of Travis Kalanick, co-founder and former boss of Uber. That mindset helped turn the company into the world’s largest ride-hailing platform, with operations in more than 70 countries and 10,000 cities. Its name…
How to greet people at work
Max Flannel, our office agony uncle, answers a bulging postbag on a vital subject
The Elon Musk theory of pay
Delaware’s chancery court stands between Elon Musk and investors willingly offering him a fortune. In 2018, when Tesla was worth around $50bn, the carmaker’s shareholders approved a plan to link Mr Musk’s pay to the value of the company. By…
How loyalty programmes are keeping America’s airlines aloft
You might expect America’s most valuable airline to earn its keep flying passengers. But you would be mistaken. In the second quarter of the year Delta Air Lines notched up an operating profit of $2.1bn, comfortably ahead of its domestic…
Do consultants make good CEOs?
There are few more frequent visitors to the executive suites of America’s biggest companies than the strategy whisperers at McKinsey, BCG and Bain. It helps that the corner office is often occupied by one of their alumni. Among the chief…
How McKinsey lost its edge
“Business has been forced to adjust itself to staggering acceleration in the rate of change,” observed McKinsey, a consultancy, in a promotional pamphlet it published in 1940. “What period in history has ever presented more difficult problems for the executive?” Naturally,…
Hello Kitty’s owner is purring contentedly
A show called “Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures” might be expected to feature the world-famous cat more prominently than one of her lesser-known companions. In fact in its most-watched episode, “Kuromi’s Bad Day”, Hello Kitty plays a supporting role,…
American businesses are running out of ways to avoid tariff pain
CoRPORATE America’s profit engine has been remarkably robust over the past few years, even amid stubborn inflation and elevated interest rates. Faced with Donald Trump’s assault on global trade, however, it is starting to sputter. Companies from General Motors, a…
Who will pay for the trillion-dollar AI boom?
A technological revolution meets a financial one
America’s ailing health insurers
Few firms in America are more unloved than health insurers. As gatekeepers of the world’s costliest health-care system, their miserly response to claims is a constant source of patient unhappiness. Investors, by contrast, have long regarded them as soothingly safe…
The remarkable rise of “greenhushing”
Businesses once trumpeted their climate goals. Now they are quietly plugging away
How big tech plans to feed AI’s voracious appetite for power
America’s tech giants are masters of the digital realm. Yet as they bet stupendous sums on artificial intelligence (ai), their ambitions are facing constraints in the physical world. Shortages of chips and data-centre equipment such as transformers and switching gear…
Can Bernard Arnault steer LVMH out of crisis?
Louis Vuitton’s new 17,000-square-foot development in Shanghai is, quite literally, the luxury brand’s Chinese flagship. The structure, which serves as a store, restaurant, museum and billboard, is shaped like a giant boat, its hull emblazoned with Louis Vuitton’s unmistakable monogram…
Can Grab and GoTo forge a South-East Asian tech champion?
The promise of South-East Asia has long been obvious to venture capitalists. Its young and growing population of 700m is becoming richer and more urbanised. And they are poorly served by stodgy incumbents. After a pandemic-era frenzy, however, shares of…
The Gulf’s oil giants risk becoming sprawling conglomerates
Although many of their investments have a commercial logic, the result looks increasingly unwieldy
The rail mega-merger that could transform American supply chains
Every industry has its nobility. The “PayPal mafia” are sovereign in Silicon Valley. Many Wall Street financiers trace their genealogy back to Julian Robertson or Michael Milken. The equivalent for railroaders is E. Hunter Harrison, who died in 2017. He…
Trump’s tariff mayhem has been a blessing for shippers
Mariners know that the sea can be harsh, unpredictable and sometimes destructive. After weathering a pandemic and attacks by Houthi rebels that all but closed the vital trade route through the Suez canal, container-shipping companies may have hoped for some…
The dark horse of AI labs
How Anthropic’s missionary zeal is fuelling its commercial success
Airlines’ favourite new pricing trick
Our analysis shows that some carriers have started charging more for solo travellers
China’s smartphone champion has triumphed where Apple failed
Having conquered carmaking, Xiaomi now has its sights set on world domination
The hottest new travel destination for hotel brands: India
PATNA IS A day trip away from Bodh Gaya, where the Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment, and the ruins of Nalanda, an ancient monastery visited by the Chinese monk Xuanzang on his journey to the west. It is…
Are superstars as good when they move jobs?
The competition for the world’s best AI talent is frenzied. Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Meta, has personally taken charge of efforts to recruit for a “superintelligence” lab. The sums on offer are eye-watering: a rumoured $200m-plus to prise away…
Move over, Tim Cook. Jensen Huang is America Inc’s new China envoy
AS A TEENAGER in Oregon, Jensen Huang was one mean ping-pong player. In 1978 his mentor, Lou Bochenski, described him in a letter to Sports Illustrated as “perhaps the most promising junior ever to play table tennis” in the American…
Kraft Heinz is not the only food giant in trouble
When Warren Buffett, a venerable investor, and 3G Capital, a private-equity firm, merged Kraft and Heinz in 2015 to create a packaged-food heavyweight, consumers’ appetite for its colourful condiments, sugary snacks and processed cheeses seemed insatiable. The deal now looks…
The spectacular folly of Donald Trump’s copper tariffs
Nestled among the Oquirrh Mountains in Utah is the deepest open-pit copper mine on Earth. The Bingham Canyon mine, once owned by the Guggenheims and now run by Rio Tinto, has been in operation since 1903. Even now about 275,000…
America throws big money at a small rare-earths mine
Not since the first world war, when America’s government nationalised the railroad system, has it made the kind of investment it announced on July 10th. For $400m, the Department of Defence acquired a 15% stake in MP Materials, making it…
AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?
The rise of ChatGPT and its rivals is undermining the economic bargain of the internet
Can Nvidia persuade governments to pay for “sovereign” AI?
Late in 2023 Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, began peddling a new idea. Every country, he said, should have its own artificial-intelligence (AI) system, trained on domestic data, aligned with national values and built using local infrastructure. Appealing to…
Meet Nvidia’s big new customers: governments
But will “sovereign” AI pay off for taxpayers?
Pity France’s cognac-makers
They have won a respite from China, but face growing pressures in America
A CEO’s summer guide to protecting profits
MID-JULY is the time to bare it all. On the beach, this involves swimwear that, au fait with the latest fashion, varies in skimpiness from extreme to disturbing. In the boardroom, it consists of a ritual of corporate exhibitionism known…
America’s broken construction industry is a big problem for Trump
The Empire State Building, finished in 1931, was erected in just 410 days. That same year construction began on the Hoover Dam. It was meant to take seven years, but was built in five. Such feats now seem hard to…
Can a $9bn deal sustain CoreWeave’s stunning growth?
The AI superstar faces competition and an over-reliance on big tech
Silicon Valley is racing to build the first $1trn unicorn
Two years ago, when Nvidia first joined the club of trillion-dollar firms, plenty of investors worried that its shares were beginning to look pricey. Yet those who happened to buy a slice of the artificial-intelligence (AI) chipmaker at the time…
Linda Yaccarino goes from X CEO to ex-CEO
When a company accidentally lavishes praise on Adolf Hitler, it may not be surprising that its chief executive promptly decides to step down. Yet in a testament to the turbulence of Linda Yaccarino’s two years at the helm of X,…
Does working from home kill company culture?
“This isn’t just about productivity metrics,” Dara Khosrowshahi, the boss of Uber, told employees recently, after the ride-hailing company said they should all work from the office at least three days a week. “It’s about building the culture that will…
Kim Kardashian, Ryan Reynolds and the age of the celebrity brand
Kim Kardashian launched Skims, her shapewear brand, in 2019 after spending years dabbing other undergarments with teabags to “nail the perfect nude shade”. “It’s deeply personal to me,” says the reality-television star. It has also been tremendously lucrative. Skims now…
Would you pay $19 for a strawberry?
SIX LARGE strawberries are neatly wrapped in what looks like a fancy chocolate box. The Omakase berries—a Japanese variety, grown by a company called Oishii in New Jersey—are softer and sweeter than those found in most supermarkets. You would hope…
A Wall Street wheeze makes a surprising comeback
THE SPecial-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) was Wall Street’s favourite get-richer-quicker scheme during the pandemic. First, some big-shot investor raises capital by listing a shell company on the stockmarket. The big shot then calls around other big shots, looking for a…
Ferrari is looking less like a carmaker and more like Hermès
The workaday town of Maranello, near such architectural jewels as Bologna and Modena, shares little of their charm. Nevertheless, its main attraction is a centrepiece of Italian culture. A statue of a prancing horse on a roundabout reminds visitors that…
Superstar coders are raking it in. Others, not so much
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Are startup founders different?
The best entrepreneurs ask themselves a particular question
Wendell Weeks, the small-town boss at the big-tech table
In his office in upstate New York, Wendell Weeks is about to do an ad hoc product demonstration. He brandishes something he calls a Norwegian hammer, a device used to test how resistant materials are to hard knocks. Mr Weeks…
Who needs Accenture in the age of AI?
WHO IS consulting good for? Consultants, obviously. Chief executives, who can blame failure on bad outside advice and take credit for successful counsel. Also, for the industry’s one listed behemoth, its shareholders. Between the start of 2015 and the end…
Behind the world’s fragrances sits a shadowy oligopoly
Damp carpet and old coffee. That is how a perfumier might have described the “top notes”—industry speak for the initial olfactory experience—at SIMPPAR, the annual fragrance-ingredient expo held this month in Paris. It is where vendors from Sicilian dynasties to…
How to tell the West’s car industry really is in trouble
Suppliers, once far more profitable than auto firms, are struggling
AI valuations are verging on the unhinged
Vibe coding, or the ability to spin up a piece of software using generative artificial intelligence (AI) rather than old-school programming skills, is all the rage in Silicon Valley. But it has a step-sibling. Call it vibe valuing. This is…
How OnlyFans transformed porn
Since it was founded in 2016 by a well-heeled Brit, OnlyFans has grown into a giant of x-rated content. The platform, whose current owner, a secretive Ukrainian-American, is reportedly looking to sell it for $8bn, is used by over 4m…
It’s not just Labubu dolls. Chinese brands are booming
Labubu dolls are hard to come by. Even at the giant flagship store of their maker, Pop Mart, in Shanghai, throngs of customers are told they need to wait a week or longer. The grimacing elvish creatures, which come in…
The three rules of conference panels
One unfiltered moderator, three panellists and a universal experience
Can a car boss turn around Gucci’s owner?
Kering is the latest troubled firm to seek an outside saviour
Victoria’s Secret is struggling to reinvent itself
At the world’s best-known lingerie brand, the dirty laundry is on full display. In an open letter to Victoria’s Secret published on June 16th, Barington Capital, an activist investor, told Donna James, the brand’s chairwoman, that the company is failing…
The family saga at Germany’s media colossus takes an unusual twist
It is common for family empires to eventually pass into the managerial hands of an outsider. Rarely does an heir later take back the reins. Yet that is precisely what is under way at Bertelsmann, a German media colossus. After…
Mark Zuckerberg is spending megabucks on an AI hiring spree
When Mark Zuckerberg decided to launch his quest for the metaverse in 2021, he threw fistfuls of cash at the effort. Meta’s boss is now repeating the act, this time with generative artificial intelligence (AI). Hot on the heels of…
AI is turning the ad business upside down
The advertising business sells nothing so well as itself. This talent was on full display at the industry’s annual awards in Cannes, which began on June 16th. Advertising “not only pushes creative boundaries but also demonstrates the tangible impact creativity…
Why China is giving away its tech for free
Its newfound fondness for open-source is awkward for an authoritarian state
What employees think of their companies’ values
Employee reviews on Glassdoor Bosses love to talk about company culture. Yet the concept is fuzzy. The Economist has partnered with CultureX, a research and AI firm, to measure corporate culture across 900 firms in 19 industries. CultureX’s data show…
How to build the right corporate culture
Every company has a culture, whether it wants one or not. But too few firms think deeply about what they want their culture to be, or about how to embed it. As the latest episode of our Boss Class podcast…
The world’s biggest food company plans to beef up in America
Consumers outside Brazil may not be familiar with JBS, even though many will have tasted its products. But as the meat-packing colossus prepared to list on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on June 13th, its American competitors were quivering…
Can robotaxis put Tesla on the right road?
Elon Musk’s falling-out with Donald Trump will not help
A checklist for decision-making
Companies run on decisions. Asking three questions makes choices better
Can Tim Cook stop Apple going the same way as Nokia?
A YEAR AGO, when Apple used a jamboree at its home in Silicon Valley to unveil its artificial-intelligence (AI) strategy, grandly known as Apple Intelligence, it was a banner occasion. The following day the firm’s value soared by more than…
AI agents are turning Salesforce and SAP into rivals
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Germany thinks about cancelling a public holiday
“Ja, ja, ja, now we’re gonna spit on our hands, we will increase the gross national product!” is the refrain from Geier Sturzflug’s biggest hit. The band’s “Gross National Product” topped Germany’s pop charts in 1983, when the country’s work…
The 11-year-old Ukrainian YouTuber snapping at MrBeast’s heels
FROM MONDAY to Friday, Diana Kydysiuk’s life looks much like that of any other 11-year-old, with her time taken up by school, gymnastics and judo practice. But at weekends Diana becomes the star of home-made videos that are viewed billions…
Muslim “modest-wear” is a hit with fashionistas of all faiths
Eid al-Adha, which began this year on June 6th, is nicknamed the “Muslim Met Gala” for good reason. The three-day Islamic holiday is an opportunity not only for religious observance but for worship of the fashion gods, as revellers dress…
What Bicester Village says about the luxury industry
At first glance Bicester Village looks like any other in the Cotswolds, the bucolic corner of England it is located near. It is filled with low-rise buildings with gabled roofs, cobbled streets, wooden benches and greenery. It is, in fact,…
Which universities will be hit hardest by Trump’s war on foreign students
If college presidents were hoping Donald Trump would tire of lambasting America’s universities, recent tirades against international students have left them freshly agog. In May the administration said it would no longer let Harvard enroll foreigners, apparently as a punishment…
Even as the Murdochs bitterly feud, their empire thrives
Nothing in Fox’s television schedules last year was quite as exciting—or, at times, as profane—as the drama that played out in a closed probate court in Reno, Nevada. Rupert Murdoch, the now 94-year-old founder and controlling shareholder of Fox Corporation…
Europe’s attempted bonfire of red tape is impressing no one
From CSRD to GDPR, the EU’s alphabet soup is still causing despair
Will European business turn away from America?
If the European Union was, as Donald Trump claims, formed “to screw the United States”, nobody told its companies. The stock of foreign direct investment in America held by EU businesses reached more than $2trn in 2023, accounting for nearly…
The Economist’s business internship
We are accepting applications for a Marjorie Deane intern to spend six months with us in London writing about business. The position is paid and the start date is flexible. Journalism experience is not required. Please send a CV and an original…
Boeing enjoys a Trump bump
Boeing’s reputation for reliability in recent years has been earned not by the performance of its products, but by its ability to generate unwelcome news. So the first few months of 2025 have come as something of a relief. The…
Why it has never been better to be a big company
The upheaval brought by AI and Trump favours corporate giants—for now
American companies have a new image problem
For decades America’s soft power put the wind in the sails of its companies as they ventured abroad. When the Berlin Wall fell, Coca-Cola sent lorries emblazoned with its logo into East Berlin to hand out free drinks. Sales soared…
Universal wants to steal Disney’s theme-park magic
In the swampy Florida heat, a gaggle of enthusiasts, influencers and journalists gathered this week for the opening of Epic Universe, a new theme park in Orlando. The sprawling site, made up of five themed “worlds”, took Comcast, owner of…
Welcome to the AI trough of disillusionment
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Big box v brands: the battle for consumers’ dollars
American retailers are slugging it out with their suppliers
China’s battery giant eyes world domination
Set amid a backdrop of lush rolling hills and marshy lakes, Ningde is an unassuming company town on the south-eastern coast of China, lined with low-rise buildings and apartment blocks. One structure stands out: a gleaming rectangular tower with a…
The secrets of public speaking
People who enjoy public speaking are luckier than they realise. A much-publicised survey from the 1970s claimed that Americans feared it more than death. In 2012, Karen Dwyer and Marlina Davidson of the University of Nebraska Omaha published a paper…
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American brands have a new image problem
For decades America’s soft power put the wind in the sails of its companies as they ventured abroad. When the Berlin Wall fell, Coca-Cola sent lorries emblazoned with its logo into East Berlin, handing out free drinks to the amassing…
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테무 할인코드 한 계정에 테무 할인코드 한 계정에 여러 번 가능할까요?라는 질문은 온라인 쇼핑을 즐기는 많은 소비자들이 자주 궁금해하는 부분입니다. 할인코드를 활용하면 구매 비용을 절약할 수 있기 때문에, 한 계정에서 동일한 테무 할인코드를 여러 번 사용할 수 있는지에 대한 관심이…
Nvidia’s original customers are feeling unloved and grumpy
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Big pharma’s jumbo profits are under threat in America
For America’s politicians, there are few easier bogeymen to rail against than pharma bosses. Only a fifth of the country has a positive opinion of the industry, according to Gallup, a pollster—meaning its executives rank below even estate agents in…
The myths of corporate innovation
If innovation has an iconography, it involves a genius, a breakthrough and a dash of serendipity. Alexander Fleming notices mould growing on a plate of bacteria and discovers penicillin. John Snow produces a map of the victims of a cholera…
Donald Trump is throttling America’s oil industry
“IF I’M NOT president, you’re fucked.” So Donald Trump reportedly told a roomful of oil bosses gathered at Mar-a-Lago after his re-election. During the campaign Mr Trump sought to position himself as the American oil industry’s only hope against the…
Why so many IT projects go so horribly wrong
Let’s play a word-association game. Champions (Liverpool). Cyclists (smug). IT project (failure). Ask people what they know about tech projects, and they will probably say that they take longer than expected, cost more than budgeted and deliver less than they…
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What is behind the staggering ascent of Palantir?
The unorthodox firm is profiting from the AI and Trumpian revolutions
Huawei and other Chinese chip firms are catching up fast
A wave of optimism has lately swept through China’s chip industry. Share traders in Shanghai joke that Cambricon, a local firm, not only offers a substitute for Nvidia’s processors, but for its stock, too. Although the Chinese semiconductor firm is…
Bosses beware: the tariff shock is not like covid-19
If only American businesses were so lucky
Eli Lilly looks set to steal Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss crown
Being first to market with a drug can be crucial. Eli Lilly is proving that being second but better can also pay. Zepbound, the American firm’s weight-loss jab, was approved in its home country in November 2023, more than two…
OpenAI’s flip-flop will not get Elon Musk off its back
Call it a rare win for Elon Musk. The world’s richest man, whose business empire has lately taken a beating, has long pursued a vendetta against Sam Altman, boss of OpenAI. In recent months Mr Musk, who helped found the…
How China is still getting its hands on Nvidia’s gear
Last month Jensen Huang, the boss of Nvidia, landed in Beijing with a clear message: the maker of the world’s leading artificial-intelligence (AI) chips planned to “unswervingly serve the Chinese market”. America would rather it didn’t. A few days earlier…
Big tech has a big Trump problem
In the weeks after the re-election of Donald Trump, the bosses of America’s tech champions worked hard to ingratiate themselves with the returning president, congratulating him publicly and dutifully turning up to his inauguration. Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Meta,…
Will the trade war capsize shipbuilders?
ALL QUIET on the western waterfront. And the eastern one, too. Across littoral America, stevedores are twiddling their thumbs. They have President Donald Trump to thank for this unexpected breather. It is the foreseeable consequence of his unprovoked trade world…
For media companies, news is becoming a toxic asset
Paramount’s dilemma exemplifies a broader problem
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Here is your AI recap of the monthly sales-team meeting held at 14:00 on May 1st 2025. There were ten attendees at the meeting, and 45 questions were asked. A total of 18 action items were detected. Main themes: sales…
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Can Starbucks be turned around?
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Shopping malls are making a comeback in America
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A new way to recycle plastic is here
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Despite the rally, Apple still faces a trade-war nightmare
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Amazon’s $20bn push into orbit targets SpaceX and China
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TikTok’s bizarre sale process gets even weirder
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How Hermès defied the luxury slump
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Does every business need a cash pile like Warren Buffett’s?
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China and America are racing to develop the best AI. But who is ahead in using it?
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One of the world’s biggest mega-malls is worryingly empty
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Apple gets caught in a trade-war nightmare
The world’s most valuable firm is in an excruciating position
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Athletics pays less than other sports. Michael Johnson wants to change that
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Are there any business winners in Trump 2?
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Donald Trump’s plan for American carmaking is full of potholes
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Musk Inc is under serious threat
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The luxury industry is poised for a deal wave
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Western companies are experimenting with DeepSeek
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The importance of repetition in the workplace
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