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The race to elect the next head of the Olympics is heating up

On March 20th the 109 members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)—a group that includes the grand duke of Luxembourg, a former Costa Rican president and an Oscar-winning actress from Malaysia—will gather...

Elon Musk’s antics are not the only problem for Tesla

Friends help each other out. Tesla’s boss, Elon Musk, may well have been grateful when Donald Trump said he would buy one of its electric vehicles (EVs) on March 11th. Yet that...

China’s AI boom is reaching astonishing proportions

Just hours after the launch on March 6th of Manus, a Chinese artificial-intelligence (AI) bot, a flood of visitors caused its registration site to crash. Butterfly Effect, the company behind the bot,...

The world’s trustbusters hint that they want more deals

AT THE START of the year dealmakers around the globe were sharpening their pencils. Donald Trump’s incoming administration was promising to slash corporate taxes and tear up red tape in the world’s...

As Germany’s defence stocks go ballistic, armsmakers are tooling up

“Defence is now by far the most dynamic sector of German industry,” says Armin Papperger, chief executive of Rheinmetall, Germany’s biggest arms producer. Until recently no one, including Mr Papperger, the firm’s...

Catering to protein-rich diets is a tasty business

Alongside the crisps in the snack aisle, supermarkets are now stacking shelves with roasted chickpeas, cheese bites and beef jerky. An array of high-protein alternatives is appearing alongside low-fat and low-sugar foods....

Mistral, Europe’s biggest AI startup, is blowing hot

THERE IS LITTLE reason to cheer the cooling of relations between America and the European Union. But it’s an ill wind that blows no one any good. In the fast-growing world of...

The behaviour that annoys colleagues more than any other

Surveys of office behaviour are not scientific. In a global poll conducted last year by Kickresume, a firm that helps create cvs, 85% of people said they had experienced an annoying co-worker....

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