The Economist

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

THE ECONOMIST: America’s Treasury Secretary wants to be its top bond salesman. But his increasingly aggressive tactics could make the product harder to sell.

THE ECONOMIST: Once machines seem to think, feel and plead their own case, saying no to them could become dangerously difficult.

THE ECONOMIST: A rewiring of global manufacturing is under way.

THE ECONOMIST: A handful of AI giants are increasingly calling the shots on global indices, and the numbers may not tell the story investors think they do.

THE ECONOMIST: This time won’t be different — except that institutions will be less well placed to limit the damage, reckons Martin Gruenberg.

THE ECONOMIST: Pharma’s newest obsession involves mimicking the system that keeps people awake.

THE ECONOMIST: The Taliban represent the farthest end of a global continuum of restrictions on female lives, writes Sarah Little.

Rogue agents are creating a gold rush for firms promising to make AI safer, smarter and more trustworthy

THE ECONOMIST: The Muslim Brotherhood seemed an early winner of the Arab spring that erupted in late 2010 and spread throughout the Arab world. Now they face an existential crisis.