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How a power shortage could short-circuit Nvidia’s rise

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Too many chips, too little juice

Feuds, grudges and revenge

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Welcome to the dark side of the workplace

Service stations are getting a glow-up

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EV drivers want a more pleasant experience while they wait for their cars to charge

How much trouble is the world’s biggest offshore-wind developer in?

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Orsted is suffering from Donald Trump’s grudge against “windmills”

Service stations are receiving a glow-up

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EV drivers want a more pleasant experience while they wait for their cars to charge

The market for startup shares is getting even weirder

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Investors want access to the hottest unlisted companies, however they can get it

Gambling or investing? In America, the line is increasingly blurred

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Bet on stocks in a prediction market run by a sports-betting firm and a futures exchange

Assessing the case against Lisa Cook

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How strong is the evidence, and how bad would it be if the claims were true?

The Economist’s finance and economics internship

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We invite applications for our Marjorie Deane scheme

Donald Trump, friend of the EV?

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His policies may ultimately help Detroit go electric

Trump “fires” Lisa Cook, escalating his war on the Federal Reserve

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There is little precedent: no Fed governor has been dismissed for cause before

Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating

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The president’s threats loomed over this year’s Jackson Hole conference

How China became an innovation powerhouse

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Its state-led model has generated impressive results. But the costs are mounting

China is quietly upstaging America with its open models

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How worried should OpenAI and other labs be?

The last days of brainstorming

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Enjoy the peculiar melange of whiteboards and humans while you can

Big Chocolate has a growing taste for lab-grown cocoa

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Can science solve the problem of a shortage of beans?

China’s hottest new look: the facekini

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Communist party officials disapprove of the trend

American tech’s split personalities

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Publicly traded startups aren’t what they used to be

The green transition has a surprising new home

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Forget about northern Europeans, with their coalition governments and love of cycling

To survive, Intel must break itself apart

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And it should do so before it is too late

Trump’s trade victims are shrugging off his attacks

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And China is gaining in the process

How AI-powered hackers are stealing billions

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Business is booming for cyber-security firms

How America’s AI boom is squeezing the rest of the economy

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Beware the data-centre takeover

What might Trumpian meddling mean for Intel?

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The president is behaving like an activist investor on Wall Street

A 400-year-old Chinese cough syrup is winning over Westerners

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Young shoppers in particular are going gaga for Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa

A new wave of clean-energy innovation is building

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Donald Trump’s attacks on wind and solar will not stop it

Japan’s carmakers are trying to tinker their way out of tariff pain

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Clever optimisation will only get them so far

Should you trust that five-star rating on Airbnb?

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How to make sense of online customer reviews

Italian bosses want Giorgia Meloni to hurry up with reform

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Will she squander her chance?

Growth-loving authoritarians are failing on their own terms

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In Asia, East Africa and the Gulf leaders now face an unpleasant choice

Who will win from Trump’s tariffs?

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New rates mean new “China plus one” locations

Trump wants to command bosses like Xi does. He is failing

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His dealings with business borrow from China’s playbook

Ivy League universities are on a debt binge

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The borrowers, including Harvard, Princeton and Yale, benefit from a “prestige premium”

How AI could create the first one-person unicorn

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The technology is allowing entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses on their own

America’s housing market is shuddering

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For the country’s homeowners, the good times are coming to an end

McDonald’s secret sauce—plus a pickle or two

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Hearty quarterly results conceal a dual challenge for the burger behemoth

South America is fast becoming the world’s hottest oil patch

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BP’s big new discovery in Brazil adds to the excitement

An economist’s guide to big life decisions

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Forget your trip to the dentist. A new check-up is required

If America goes after India’s oil trade, China will benefit

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A crackdown on Russian crude would have knock-on consequences

Buy now, pay later is taking over the world. Good

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Buy that burrito, and don’t let anyone judge you

American businesses are running out of ways to avoid tariff pain

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A big squeeze on profits may be coming

Who will pay for the trillion-dollar AI boom?

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A technological revolution meets a financial one

America’s ailing health insurers

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An industry that has run on government money faces a reckoning

Hello Kitty’s owner is purring contentedly

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Sanrio is becoming a powerhouse of licensing intellectual property

The trade deal with America shows the limits of the EU’s power

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The bloc opts for prudence over defiance

The deeper reason for banking’s retreat

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Why bankers no longer play golf at 3pm

The remarkable rise of “greenhushing”

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Businesses once trumpeted their climate goals. Now they are quietly plugging away

How big tech plans to feed AI’s voracious appetite for power

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As data centres get more energy-hungry, the hyperscalers get more creative

Europe averts its Trumpian trade nightmare

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A deal with America chooses certain tariffs over risky retaliation

Who’s feeling the pain of Trump’s tariffs?

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Foreign companies are sharing the load. For now