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...
Mauro Morandi needed to abandon consumer society
To Polynesia! That was where Mauro Morandi wanted to go. By 1989 he had the means to get there, a 16-metre seven-cabin catama...
Heritable Agriculture, a Google spinout, is bringing AI to crop breeding
When Norman Borlaug moved to Mexico in 1944, 60% of the wheat consumed in the country was imported. The government wanted to ...
Catch up:Trump comments on Washington crash; Israel releases Palestinian prisoners
President Donald Trump said that America is “in mourning” after officials confirmed that there were no survivors of a mid-air...
Don’t let Donald Trump see our Big Mac index
President Donald Trump likes fast food almost as much as he loves tariffs. During a government shutdown in his first term, he...
Kash Patel is a crackpot
Kash Patel likes conspiracy theories. Luckily for everyone else, conspiracists are normally kept far away from America’s fede...
Donald Trump goes to war with his employees
TO GET a sense of what Donald Trump’s first week did to the federal government, talk to people who work in it. “I’ve been wit...
Around the world, an anti-red-tape revolution is taking hold
IN HIS OWN inimitable style, President Donald Trump has identified something he dislikes and approached it with a wrecking-ba...
Why “Emilia Pérez” is loved by Hollywood and hated by everyone else
Lockdown has a lot to answer for. As many were baking sourdough at home, Jacques Audiard, a French film-maker, was writing an...
DeepSeek sends a shockwave through markets
It did not take much for the euphoria over artificial intelligence (AI) to turn into alarm. On January 27th stockmarkets in A...