The Economist

Women's participation in the workforce is falling and the pay gap is widening.

Why women’s progress at work appears to be stalling

THE ECONOMIST: After the ‘lean in’ generation, are professional women leaning out?

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In the race to perfect AI models, the Chinese are catching up.

America should not imprison frontier AI

THE ECONOMIST: With China’s free models catching up there’s a need for better regulations.

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Hong Kong is finding a path back from the afterlife, with pensive cats to guide the way.

Hong Kong clawing way back to wealth after tumultuous decade

THE ECONOMIST: Not long ago Hong Kong was declared dead by some financial commentators, and ready for embalming. But it is now finding a path back from the afterlife, with pensive cats to guide the way.

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Tech bosses are being forced to seek permission to release cutting edge technology to the world.

Why Trump’s AI regime opaque, unpredictable & unsustainable

THE ECONOMIST: America has — until now — been synonymous with freedom, so why are tech bosses being forced to seek permission to release cutting edge technology to the world?

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How AI is setting up an even worse version of the GFC

When the crash comes, stabilising markets will be easy compared with reordering society for AI, writes short-seller Carson Block.

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‘Big oil' are making profits from war.

War strikes gold for big oil’s secret trading arms

THE ECONOMIST: Meet the corporate gamblers who never waste a good energy crisis.

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Andy Burnham promises hope, but Britain needs more than that.

Andy Burnham promises hope, but Britain needs more than that

THE ECONOMIST: He shows little sign that he grasps the scale or urgency of the tasks that await him.

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If you could see tomorrow’s news, would you still make money on shares?

Even AI couldn’t crack the stock market

THE ECONOMIST: Even with a seemingly unbeatable edge, most players couldn’t outsmart the market. Here’s why.

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Fears linger that Iran will seek to impose a toll on Hormuz crossings

Trump’s Iran oil waiver could reshape global energy markets

THE ECONOMIST: Experts are warning the regime could emerge vastly richer despite offering few concessions on its nuclear program.

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Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan testifies on Capitol Hill Wednesday in 2001.

Alan Greenspan, the maestro who crafted monetary music

For the former long-running US Fed chairman, the numbers were always a guide, like the notes on a piece of sheet music.

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It seems that a fair proportion of unicorns have joined the undead.

Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley

Lately fantastic beasts have been roaming the valley - firms once worth more than a billion that are now a mere shadow of their former selves.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit.

The G7 has nudged open a window for diplomacy in Ukraine

THE ECONOMIST: G7 leaders are hopeful Iran breakthrough will revive US support for Ukraine.

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The World Cup often feels like a Silicon Valley conference circa 2016.

Why the FIFA World Cup is a tournament of losers

The retailers, television stations, brewers and betting houses that make up capitalism’s starting XI are an ageing and injury-prone lot. For some, this could even be their last tournament.

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US President Donald Trump is tired of war, so what happens next in the Middle East?
Share prices really come unstuck from reality only after a mania takes hold.

America’s bull market has entered its manic phase

THE ECONOMIST: For most of the past couple of years the best argument that American stocks were not in a bubble was that things simply didn’t feel manic enough. 

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Ships may use the Strait of Hormuz, but prices will stay high.

Why ceasefire won’t immediately resolve high fuel prices

Donald Trump may have stopped his Iranian misadventure in time to avoid a catastrophe. But some of the damage it has inflicted on energy markets may never be undone.

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People in Tehran gather in support of Iran’s new leader, Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, while holding the Iranian flag and images of both the new and former leaders of Iran.

A deal is only the beginning of the end of the US-Iran war

The ceasefire agreement will bring needed relief to a scarred region, and to global energy markets. But it will not resolve the issues that brought America and Iran to war in the first place.

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America’s allies have been locked out of the world’s best AI model.

Trump cuts off access to world’s best AI model

America’s closest allies have been blocked from Anthropic’s Mythos.

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