The Economist

THE ECONOMIST: Chipmakers’ record sales disguise a gloomy picture among other American companies trying to expand into the Chinese market.

THE ECONOMIST: Think Australian homeowners have it tough? We’re not alone.

The world must urgently try to forestall AI’s risk. Yet democracies must also avoid losing control to authoritarians. These are difficult and conflicting tasks. The stakes could hardly be higher.

THE ECONOMIST: As debt piles up and interest rates bite, rich countries face a borrowing reckoning that could get very painful.

New drone technology may give US-backed forces a military edge should China move to take over Taiwan.

New film figures reveal just how much family connections can help open doors in showbiz.

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.