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For media companies, news is becoming a toxic asset

The latest episode of “60 Minutes”, broadcast on CBS on April 27th, began with items on medical-research funding, Islamist terrorism and Japan’s population crisis. But its biggest story was delivered in the...

Your AI meeting notes are ready

Here is your AI recap of the monthly sales-team meeting held at 14:00 on May 1st 2025. There were ten attendees at the meeting, and 45 questions were asked. A total of...

When can AI book my summer holiday?

HOWEVER YOU do it, booking holidays can be a hassle. It used to mean a visit to a travel agent. Online firms at least let you set up trips yourself, in your...

Can Starbucks be turned around?

Investors cheered when Brian Niccol was named chief executive of Starbucks last August. Mr Niccol, then the boss of Chipotle, a Mexican-restaurant group, had earned an almost messianic reputation for turning around...

Can Shein and Temu survive Trump’s trade war?

For Gen Z shoppers in America, Donald Trump’s trade war with China is no longer just a headline. On April 25th Shein and Temu, two Chinese online emporiums popular among youngsters, announced...

Big tech has a big Trump problem

In the weeks after the re-election of Donald Trump, the bosses of America’s tech champions worked hard to ingratiate themselves with the returning president, congratulating him publicly and dutifully turning up to...

Donald Trump is proving disastrous for big tech

In the weeks after the re-election of Donald Trump, the bosses of America’s tech giants worked hard to ingratiate themselves with the returning president, congratulating him publicly and dutifully turning up to...

The trouble with MAGA’s manufacturing dream

In the late 1940s, as the industrial capacity of Europe and Japan lay in tatters, America accounted for over half of global manufacturing output, with much of the world heavily reliant on...

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