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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...

Donald Trump once tried to ban TikTok. Now can he save it?

The long campaign to outlaw TikTok in America succeeded at last when the Chinese-owned video app was forced to shut down on January 18th. But the blackout lasted only a matter of...

Will Elon Musk scrap his plan to invest in a gigafactory in Mexico?

Elon Musk likes to think big, from giant rockets to blockbuster pay packets and massive, if misguided, investments in social media. In Mexico’s case it was an investment, announced in March 2023,...

One of the biggest energy IPOs in a decade could be around the corner

THE DISRUPTIVE innovator of the global gas industry is stepping out of the shadows. On January 13th Venture Global, a privately held exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) based in Virginia, unveiled...

Germany is going nuts for Dubai chocolate

It sold out in four days. The “Aldon Schokolade Dubai Style” was created by patissiers at a fancy hotel in the centre of Berlin. It came in 500g bars with ingredients like...

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