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Google and Apple dodge an antitrust bullet

After Chatgpt was launched in 2022, generative artificial intelligence (ai) quickly came to be seen as an existential threat to the search business of Google, owned by Alphabet. It has turned out...

How Trump’s migrant crackdown threatens America Inc

Modelo has been America’s favourite beer ever since Bud Light enraged conservative imbibers in 2023 with a “woke” social-media campaign featuring a trans woman. Now Constellation Brands, which owns the Modelo brand...

How the migrant crackdown threatens America Inc

Modelo has been America’s favourite beer ever since Bud Light enraged conservative imbibers in 2023 with a “woke” social-media campaign featuring a trans woman. Now Constellation Brands, which owns the Modelo brand...

Feuds, grudges and revenge

One of the more touching on-screen relationships is that between C-3PO and R2-D2, two robots who appear in the “Star Wars” films. The actors behind the droids got on less well. “He...

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

Foul winds keep blowing Orsted’s way. On August 22nd Donald Trump’s administration ordered the offshore-wind developer to stop work on its $4bn Revolution Wind project off the coast of New England. The...

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

ON AUGUST 27TH Nvidia performed what has become a quarterly ritual beating of expectations. Analysts forecast that the chipmaker would sell $46bn-worth of semiconductors in the three months to July. It made...

Service stations are getting a glow-up

The Tesla Diner, an electric-vehicle (EV) charging hub and roadside restaurant that opened in July in Los Angeles, is not your typical service station. The architecture is sleek and retro-futuristic. The menu...

The market for startup shares is getting even weirder

“IT’S NOT fun being a public company,” lamented David Solomon, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, earlier this year. Firms should proceed with “great caution” before pursuing an initial public offering (IPO),...

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