Let’s play a word-association game. Champions (Liverpool). Cyclists (smug). IT project (failure). Ask people what they know about tech projects, and they will probably say that they take longer than expected, cost...
A wave of optimism has lately swept through China’s chip industry. Share traders in Shanghai joke that Cambricon, a local firm, not only offers a substitute for Nvidia’s processors, but for its...
ALEX KARP acts like everyone hates him. As the boss of Palantir strutted the stage at a recent gathering of clients, he got a kick out of sounding perverse, in his tousle-haired,...
Being first to market with a drug can be crucial. Eli Lilly is proving that being second but better can also pay. Zepbound, the American firm’s weight-loss jab, was approved in its...
PEER INTO a Bloomberg screen and the parallels between the past month and the spring of 2020 draw themselves. Then as now the VIX index, which tracks share-price volatility, spiked above 40,...
Call it a rare win for Elon Musk. The world’s richest man, whose business empire has lately taken a beating, has long pursued a vendetta against Sam Altman, boss of OpenAI. In...
Last month Jensen Huang, the boss of Nvidia, landed in Beijing with a clear message: the maker of the world’s leading artificial-intelligence (AI) chips planned to “unswervingly serve the Chinese market”. America...
ALL QUIET on the western waterfront. And the eastern one, too. Across littoral America, stevedores are twiddling their thumbs. They have President Donald Trump to thank for this unexpected breather. It is...
