The Economist

Throughout its five-and-a-half-year history, Anthropic, an artificial-intelligence lab, has grappled with how to build AI safely while making enough money to push forward the frontier of research.

THE ECONOMIST: A Gulf-war windfall has boosted balance-sheets and enriched shareholders.

THE ECONOMIST: An old but new aesthetic is taking hold in Silicon Valley and beyond

THE ECONOMIST: The latest global school rankings reveal shocking new declines in education — and it’s not all caused by COVID.

THE ECONOMIST: The AI boom is creating employment opportunities faster than it destroys them.

THE ECONOMIST: The world’s central banks are bracing for another round as global inflation heats up — again.

THE ECONOMIST: When the Nvidia boss returns to his native Taiwan, things get a little wild.

THE ECONOMIST: The former TV host turned secretary of war’s latest purge of the department has claimed the army’s great reformer.

THE ECONOMIST: Cinema attendance numbers are being boosted by Gen Z’s use of streaming and social media.

THE ECONOMIST: China it is set to produce and sell hundreds of thousands of costly but mostly useless machines in the hope that it can make cheap and useful ones in future.

THE ECONOMIST: Older-woman-younger-man relationships are increasingly being reflected on screen as they become more common in real life.

AI needs trillions in revenue to justify the boom. But getting ordinary workers to embrace it is proving difficult.

Rather than choose between America and China, Pacific leaders are choosing to deepen ties with Australia by signing the Asia-Pacific’s first new alliances since the early days of the cold war. 

Like America, China wants its laws to apply everywhere. The measures range broadly and touch on everything from foreign sanctions to ethnic policy. 

On the 2024 campaign trail, Donald Trump promised a tariff-fuelled revival of America’s old industrial towns. The promise was not just US-made goods, but more Americans making them. Has the President delivered?

THE ECONOMIST: Becoming a successful investor seems to require a big dose of luck and a distinctly odd character

THE ECONOMIST: Scientists are trying to figure out whether algorithms could one day wake up and feel

THE ECONOMIST: It is ahead of rivals and training up thousands, but profits are a long way off