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Nvidia is in danger of losing its monopoly-like margins

IT IS Common lore in Silicon Valley that no company has a bigger moat than Nvidia, the world’s dominant supplier of chips for artificial intelligence (AI). That was true until January 27th,...

DeepSeek sends a shockwave through markets

In a flash, euphoria over artificial intelligence (AI) has turned to panic. Since early trading began on January 27th the market value of Nvidia, an AI chipmaking champion, has slumped by 17%...

Knowing what your colleagues earn

How much do your colleagues get paid? In a few countries, such as Norway, you can take a good guess by looking at public records on individuals’ overall tax payments and income....

Germans are world champions of calling in sick

Historically Germany has been a world champion of the rights of workers related to their health. In 1883 Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of the German empire, set up the world’s first statutory...

A $500bn investment plan says a lot about Trump’s AI priorities

When President Donald Trump announced a half-trillion-dollar of private-sector investment in American artificial-intelligence (AI) infrastructure on January 21st, his second day in office, he basked in the accolades of the three men...

Donald Trump’s America will not become a tech oligarchy

WHAT NATION can you fit into the Capitol Rotunda? Answer: somewhere between a Portugal and a Thailand. Each country’s total household net wealth was $1.3trn, give or take, according to the latest...

OpenAI’s latest model will change the economics of software

When OpenAI announced a new generative artificial-intelligence (AI) model, called o3, a few days before Christmas, it aroused both excitement and scepticism. Excitement from those who expected its reasoning capabilities to be...

TikTok’s time is up. Can Donald Trump save it?

The campaign to ban TikTok has been going for almost as long as the viral video app has been operating in America. Now, after six years of fending off security investigations, executive...

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