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        <![CDATA[Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire]]>
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        <![CDATA[Another new boss aims to fix the world’s biggest chocolate-maker]]>
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        <![CDATA[Will Hein Schumacher’s turnaround plan for Barry Callebaut work?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Too many people are shockingly bad at prioritisation]]>
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        <![CDATA[Choosing where to focus is among the most important skills]]>
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        <![CDATA[The world’s wealthy are migrating like never before]]>
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        <![CDATA[A booming industry of advisers is easing their passage]]>
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        <![CDATA[American capitalism is run by millionaires, not billionaires]]>
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        <![CDATA[They hide in plain sight—and wield enormous power]]>
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        <![CDATA[Fear of the SaaSpocalypse is tormenting techland]]>
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        <![CDATA[Software once ate the world. Now it is in danger of eating itself]]>
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        <![CDATA[Apple’s new Siri is a dark horse in the AI race]]>
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        <![CDATA[The iPhone-maker does not need to build models to cash in on the technology]]>
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        <![CDATA[Robots could soon be delivering your pizza]]>
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        <![CDATA[An Estonian startup says its machines are now cheaper than human couriers]]>
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        <![CDATA[What to read to understand your next employer]]>
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        <![CDATA[From Kafka’s “The Trial” to Orwell’s “1984”]]>
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        <![CDATA[Two American tycoons are betting big on a casino revival]]>
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        <![CDATA[Caesars and MGM may soon be under new ownership]]>
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        <![CDATA[Lego, Pokémon and the future of fun]]>
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        <![CDATA[Toys and media brands are increasingly joining forces]]>
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        <![CDATA[A new defence champion is rising from the Gulf]]>
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        <![CDATA[American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn]]>
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        <![CDATA[Millenarian thinking permeates business and markets]]>
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        <![CDATA[BYD is losing its spark]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Chinese EV giant is struggling to stay ahead in an industry defined by software]]>
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        <![CDATA[Jensen Huang is bringing his chipmaker’s AI act to the PC]]>
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        <![CDATA[Texas is America Inc’s new centre of gravity]]>
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        <![CDATA[Exxon’s reincorporation is one more feather in the state’s cowboy hat]]>
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        <![CDATA[How should bosses talk about AI?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Employees are being asked to embrace a technology that causes fear ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Everything is going right for India’s richest man]]>
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        <![CDATA[Gautam Adani is on a winning streak]]>
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        <![CDATA[Ferrari’s electric car: divisiveness is the point]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Italian marque is attempting a high-stakes manoeuvre]]>
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        <![CDATA[The world’s top condom-maker is getting squeezed]]>
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        <![CDATA[Will Karex break under pressure?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Franchising has quietly made countless Americans rich]]>
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        <![CDATA[In the age of AI, running a McDonald’s may soon look a lot more appealing]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why you should (almost) always look on the bright side of life]]>
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        <![CDATA[The benefits—and dangers—of optimism]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can an Italian company disrupt Germany’s broken railway industry?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Deutsche Bahn could soon have a rival]]>
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        <![CDATA[A new mega-deal shows how AI has turned utilities into hot property]]>
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        <![CDATA[NextEra and Dominion must now win over regulators]]>
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        <![CDATA[How Star Wars went from space opera to soap opera]]>
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        <![CDATA[Disney turned its flagship film franchise into TV fodder. Can it go back to the big screen?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The strange fate of Hard Rock Cafe]]>
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        <![CDATA[A Native American tribe is making big bucks from the brand]]>
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        <![CDATA[Google is dethroning OpenAI as the king of consumer AI]]>
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        <![CDATA[Chanel’s creative revival is paying off]]>
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        <![CDATA[The world’s second-biggest luxury label is turning heads again]]>
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        <![CDATA[AI super-apps are remaking China’s internet]]>
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        <![CDATA[Welcome to the agentic era]]>
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        <![CDATA[The strange Japanese companies minting money from AI]]>
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        <![CDATA[What the creator of MSG and the world’s biggest toilet-maker have in common]]>
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        <![CDATA[Introducing “Velocity pivot”]]>
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        <![CDATA[The corporate world’s Lorem ipsum]]>
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        <![CDATA[Samsung has staged a stunning comeback]]>
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        <![CDATA[But political trouble is brewing]]>
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        <![CDATA[Companies are making big bucks from immigration crackdowns]]>
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        <![CDATA[And startups are piling in with whizzy new technologies]]>
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        <![CDATA[Big tech is sacrificing its cashflows to prop up the AI boom]]>
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        <![CDATA[The result is increasingly unsettling]]>
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        <![CDATA[The war between businesses and hackers enters a perilous new phase]]>
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        <![CDATA[AI agents present novel dangers]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can Mukesh Ambani pull off his biggest gamble yet?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The boss of Reliance wants to transform his conglomerate into a tech giant]]>
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        <![CDATA[America faces another grocery-price shock]]>
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        <![CDATA[Higher energy costs will be felt unevenly across the food-supply chain]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can a beauty mega-deal save Estée Lauder?]]>
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        <![CDATA[America’s cosmetics champion wants to buy its way back to better days]]>
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        <![CDATA[The pros and cons of commuting]]>
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        <![CDATA[Everyone moans about the length of their commute. Should managers care?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Airlines are grappling with dwindling supplies of jet fuel]]>
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        <![CDATA[Yet it is unclear where shortages will hit first and hardest]]>
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        <![CDATA[Only one of Berkshire Hathaway and SoftBank can survive]]>
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        <![CDATA[The two represent competing visions of the future]]>
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        <![CDATA[Not all oil giants are prospering from the Iran war]]>
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        <![CDATA[Exxon and Chevron have benefited less than their European rivals]]>
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        <![CDATA[Wanted: a new tech-industry writer]]>
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        <![CDATA[An opportunity to join the staff of The Economist]]>
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        <![CDATA[Global carmakers desperately want to be more Chinese]]>
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        <![CDATA[But partnering with local companies carries big risks]]>
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        <![CDATA[The remarkable revival of eBay]]>
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        <![CDATA[The internet’s flea market is back—and GameStop wants to buy it]]>
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        <![CDATA[AI and the danger of cognitive surrender]]>
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        <![CDATA[How much should managers let bots do the thinking?]]>
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        <![CDATA[How a mega-deal will transform the lift industry]]>
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        <![CDATA[Together Kone and TKE will tower over their rivals]]>
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        <![CDATA[Elon Musk and Sam Altman bring their rivalry to court]]>
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        <![CDATA[Of the two unloved billionaires, which will the jury trust?]]>
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        <![CDATA[SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic are already public companies]]>
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        <![CDATA[Investors have countless ways to bet on their success]]>
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        <![CDATA[Swashbuckling oil-services firms are preparing for a boom]]>
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        <![CDATA[Post-war reconstruction and efforts to diversify production will present big opportunities]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why DeepSeek’s sequel failed to impress]]>
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        <![CDATA[The AI lab faces stiffening competition and a meddling state]]>
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        <![CDATA[Coca-Cola is trouncing Pepsi. Can the underdog turn things around?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The maker of the world’s second-favourite fizzy drink is becoming more like its rival]]>
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        <![CDATA[The AI rush is hitting a bottleneck]]>
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        <![CDATA[Hardware-makers are failing to invest enough to keep up with demand]]>
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        <![CDATA[Donald Trump is giving psychedelic medicines a welcome boost]]>
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        <![CDATA[But his methods could prove damaging]]>
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        <![CDATA[Apple’s new boss needs to restore its magic for the AI era ]]>
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        <![CDATA[The elevation of John Ternus hints at the future direction of the company]]>
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        <![CDATA[Jeff Bezos is raising his game in space]]>
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        <![CDATA[But it will be hard for Amazon and Blue Origin to close the gap with SpaceX]]>
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        <![CDATA[America’s descent into state capitalism is exaggerated]]>
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        <![CDATA[Particularly by the state]]>
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        <![CDATA[The curious rise of Chinese whisky]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why one tipple is thriving in an otherwise dispirited market]]>
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        <![CDATA[From Allbirds to Glossier, millennial brands have lost their mojo]]>
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        <![CDATA[They have been squeezed by competitors old and new]]>
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        <![CDATA[Tim Cook hands Apple over to its hardware guru]]>
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        <![CDATA[John Ternus’s task is to transform the iPhone-maker for the AI era  ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why your AI assistant is suddenly selling to you]]>
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        <![CDATA[Sponsored chats are changing the way digital advertising works]]>
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        <![CDATA[The desperate pursuit of final approval]]>
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        <![CDATA[An office parable]]>
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        <![CDATA[Australia’s startup scene is thriving at last]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can the Lucky Country recreate Silicon Valley down under?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Could AI’s leading men become as powerful as Ford or Rockefeller?]]>
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        <![CDATA[For now, they are still a long way behind]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s space industry is blasting off]]>
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        <![CDATA[Thank Nehru, Modi and Musk]]>
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        <![CDATA[David Zaslav and the tyranny of incentives]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Warner CEO’s mega-payout is a cautionary tale]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why Anthropic and OpenAI are locking up their latest models]]>
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        <![CDATA[Allowing only a privileged few companies to use them may make commercial sense]]>
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        <![CDATA[America’s corporate boards are under siege ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Activist shareholders and regulatory changes are undermining their control]]>
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        <![CDATA[From Ralph Lauren to The Row, American luxury is booming]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can the old world fight back?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The pros and cons of stretch goals]]>
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        <![CDATA[Setting really tough targets encourages risk-taking, for good and bad ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Japan’s mighty carmakers are in serious trouble]]>
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        <![CDATA[They will need bold thinking to survive]]>
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        <![CDATA[A giant succession wave is coming for family businesses]]>
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        <![CDATA[Many will not survive]]>
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        <![CDATA[How war has made a 33-year-old the Czech Republic’s richest man]]>
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        <![CDATA[The rapid rise of CSG, Europe’s newest defence giant]]>
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        <![CDATA[Every company is now a media company—and every boss a star]]>
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        <![CDATA[The rise of the chatter-industrial complex ]]>
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        <![CDATA[How dangerous is Mythos, Anthropic’s new AI model?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Dario Amodei’s warnings should not be dismissed]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why McDonald’s and KFC are growing like wildfire in China ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Western fast-food brands are expanding into the countryside]]>
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        <![CDATA[How Fox News is luring in Gen Z]]>
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        <![CDATA[American boomers’ favourite TV network is trying new digital tricks]]>
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        <![CDATA[The hidden currency of office life]]>
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        <![CDATA[How status shapes motivation, conflict and career choices]]>
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        <![CDATA[India’s oil refiners are feeling the squeeze from the Gulf war]]>
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        <![CDATA[The conflict, and the government, are depleting margins]]>
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        <![CDATA[War with Iran could accelerate Africa’s oil revival]]>
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        <![CDATA[Favourable geology and new technologies make it an attractive place to drill]]>
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        <![CDATA[How the Department of Justice became a feeding ground for MAGA lobbyists]]>
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        <![CDATA[Allegations are swirling of an influence-peddling operation]]>
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        <![CDATA[The plan to make IPOs great again]]>
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        <![CDATA[America’s regulators and market operators are teaming up to rekindle public listings]]>
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        <![CDATA[The war’s biggest corporate winners and losers may surprise you]]>
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        <![CDATA[Markets are beginning to signal the long-term consequences of the surge in fuel prices]]>
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        <![CDATA[Will the EU’s new merger rules unleash a wave of dealmaking?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Don’t hold your breath]]>
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        <![CDATA[A new case of chip smuggling shows the limits of export controls]]>
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        <![CDATA[Contraband AI gear continues to make its way to China]]>
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        <![CDATA[Welcome to emoji school]]>
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        <![CDATA[OK boomers! Your questions answered ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Meta and Google face a reckoning over social-media addiction]]>
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        <![CDATA[A landmark verdict in California could have far-reaching consequences]]>
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        <![CDATA[How much will America’s oilmen benefit from the Iran war?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Big food’s troubles go from bad to worse]]>
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        <![CDATA[High prices and healthier diets are gnawing away at sales]]>
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        <![CDATA[Amazon’s unprecedented gamble on AI redemption might just work]]>
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        <![CDATA[Call it “The Bet-Everything Store”]]>
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        <![CDATA[ByteDance is swallowing the internet—in China and beyond]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can anything stop its stunning rise?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The secrets to a good employee survey ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Likert or not ]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Iran war casts a shadow over BASF’s nascent revival ]]>
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        <![CDATA[The turnaround of the German chemicals giant is still a work in progress]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why AI has not yet upset India’s IT industry ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Deploying the technology is the real world is proving tricky]]>
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        <![CDATA[Elliott Management and the art of telling bosses they’re wrong]]>
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        <![CDATA[The hedge fund has industrialised shareholder activism]]>
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        <![CDATA[How Zara fought off H&M and Shein]]>
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        <![CDATA[A touch of luxury has helped ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Nvidia is expanding its empire ]]>
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        <![CDATA[The AI boom’s biggest winner moves beyond chips]]>
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        <![CDATA[War may bring lasting change to the airline business]]>
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        <![CDATA[Western carriers will relish the chance to win some of their customers back]]>
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        <![CDATA[Trouble is brewing among America’s corporate borrowers]]>
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        <![CDATA[Surging energy prices will add to fears of a wave of defaults]]>
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        <![CDATA[In praise of grunt work]]>
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        <![CDATA[AI promises to eliminate drudgery. Careful what you wish for ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Altman, Amodei and Musk fight dirty for the biggest prize in business]]>
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        <![CDATA[Never before has so much money been sought from investors in a single year]]>
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        <![CDATA[In Trump’s world, companies seek insurance against political risk]]>
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        <![CDATA[It could soon get more expensive]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why corporate lawyers always win ]]>
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        <![CDATA[The world is a pedant’s paradise]]>
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        <![CDATA[How Gap is trying to get its cool back]]>
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        <![CDATA[Its boss is using the Barbie formula to turn around the ailing fashion label]]>
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        <![CDATA[A new wave of disrupters takes on American health care]]>
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        <![CDATA[Patients are unhappy. Can AI help?]]>
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        <![CDATA[China’s AI giants are handing out cash to lure in users]]>
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        <![CDATA[How long can their ferocious rivalry last?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Anthropic’s boss apologises for bashing Pentagon—but still plans to sue]]>
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        <![CDATA[The AI lab is the first American firm to be labelled a supply-chain risk  ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Formula One is attracting a different sort of fan]]>
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        <![CDATA[Lifestyle as much as motor racing is drawing in newcomers]]>
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        <![CDATA[A short guide to email opening lines]]>
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        <![CDATA[“I hope you are well” and other classics]]>
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        <![CDATA[Bayer spies an end to a long legal battle]]>
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        <![CDATA[After a settlement over Roundup, what about break-up?]]>
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        <![CDATA[What the heirs to General Electric did next]]>
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        <![CDATA[Their success illustrates the benefits of breaking up—and more]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Iran war is a jolt to Dubai’s business model]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can the emirate keep people and investors coming?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Airlines take a hit from hostilities in the Middle East]]>
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        <![CDATA[The war will hurt the Gulf carriers—and the whole industry too]]>
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        <![CDATA[At last, reasons to be cheerful about European tech]]>
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        <![CDATA[One of which is Donald Trump]]>
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        <![CDATA[Donald Trump lashes out at Anthropic]]>
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        <![CDATA[Silicon Valley will suffer as a consequence]]>
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        <![CDATA[What a Warner Bros-Paramount colossus would look like]]>
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        <![CDATA[Hollywood’s new giant will be indebted and unwieldy]]>
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        <![CDATA[Tony Robbins, the megalosaurus of motivation]]>
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        <![CDATA[Watching the world’s best-known life coach do his thing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The stunning rise of China’s most audacious miner]]>
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        <![CDATA[Zijin Mining is giving Western giants a run for their money]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Sphere is taking its success in Las Vegas to the world]]>
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        <![CDATA[Who will want a hundred-metre-high orb?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The fake-meat industry is in trouble]]>
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        <![CDATA[Business is slowing down. Time to tempt new palates]]>
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        <![CDATA[America’s bosses are being dragged into local politics]]>
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        <![CDATA[Arise, CEO-councilmen]]>
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        <![CDATA[Pete Hegseth wages war on Anthropic ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Should AI labs unquestioningly obey the Pentagon’s orders? ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Bosses should not hold their breath for a Trump tariff refund]]>
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        <![CDATA[The process will be slow and politically fraught]]>
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        <![CDATA[The war against PDFs is heating up]]>
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        <![CDATA[Will the file type survive the AI revolution?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Rejoice! Private equity is taking over America’s small businesses]]>
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        <![CDATA[Its ghoulish reputation is ill-deserved]]>
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        <![CDATA[Could the next big gambling destination be in the Gulf?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The UAE hopes to emulate Las Vegas and Macau ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Giorgio Armani’s bizarre will has caused a rift at his fashion label]]>
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        <![CDATA[The choices its new leaders make could shape the future of Italian luxury]]>
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        <![CDATA[The case for workplace inefficiency   ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Stop optimising. Start pronking]]>
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        <![CDATA[India is in the midst of a data-centre investment boom]]>
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        <![CDATA[Money is flowing into the country, but the benefits may prove temporary]]>
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        <![CDATA[Welcome to the era of anarchic antitrust]]>
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        <![CDATA[Competition enforcement in America has descended into chaos]]>
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        <![CDATA[China’s humanoids are dazzling the world. Who will buy them?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The market for robot dancers, alas, is limited ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Beware China’s shrinking car market]]>
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        <![CDATA[The resulting flood of exports will be good news for consumers. Less so for the world’s carmakers ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why MAGA brands have been a flop]]>
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        <![CDATA[Conservatives are better at trashing businesses than building them]]>
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        <![CDATA[The excruciating quest for a meeting room]]>
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        <![CDATA[A tale of territorial ambition, power dynamics and water bottles]]>
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        <![CDATA[Private-equity barons have a giant AI problem]]>
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        <![CDATA[Their leveraged bets on the software industry may soon cause big trouble]]>
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        <![CDATA[Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business]]>
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        <![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is causing the chip designer to rethink its winning formula]]>
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        <![CDATA[America’s hottest grocery store is also its priciest]]>
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        <![CDATA[Erewhon is testing just how much wealthy shoppers will pay for chicken soup]]>
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        <![CDATA[Asia’s capitalists will need to fight for their revolution]]>
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        <![CDATA[They cannot rely on politicians alone to fix the region’s abysmal corporate governance]]>
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        <![CDATA[China once stole foreign ideas. Now it wants to protect its own]]>
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        <![CDATA[The country’s courts are inundated with intellectual-property cases]]>
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        <![CDATA[Jeffrey Epstein’s ghost is haunting the grand old men of capitalism]]>
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        <![CDATA[The taint of the disgraced financier will endure]]>
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        <![CDATA[When management mantras help—and when they hurt]]>
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        <![CDATA[Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions. Except in some circumstances ]]>
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        <![CDATA[The elusive Czech at the centre of European business]]>
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        <![CDATA[Daniel Kretinsky still believes in the old continent—but fears its lack of pragmatism]]>
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        <![CDATA[Adults are propping up the toy industry]]>
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        <![CDATA[In praise of lifelong joy]]>
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        <![CDATA[Elon Musk is betting his business empire on AI]]>
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        <![CDATA[The fates of xAI, SpaceX and Tesla are increasingly intertwined]]>
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        <![CDATA[Disney’s new boss must rekindle its creative magic]]>
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        <![CDATA[Josh D’Amaro has a difficult task ahead]]>
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        <![CDATA[Elon Musk’s mega-merger makes little business sense]]>
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        <![CDATA[The AI economy’s dealmaking keeps getting wilder]]>
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        <![CDATA[A social network for AI agents is full of introspection—and threats]]>
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        <![CDATA[How worried should you be about Moltbook?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why software stocks are getting pummelled]]>
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        <![CDATA[Are investors overestimating the risk from AI?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Don’t be fooled. AI bosses are regular capitalists]]>
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        <![CDATA[The legal battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman reveals their true nature]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Gulf’s family businesses have a growing succession problem]]>
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        <![CDATA[Governments are nudging them, but it’ll be messy]]>
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        <![CDATA[How IBM became an AI darling]]>
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        <![CDATA[It has pulled off yet another striking turnaround]]>
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        <![CDATA[How big a threat is AI to entry-level jobs?]]>
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        <![CDATA[And what should companies do in response?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Silicon Valley wades into a trade spat with South Korea]]>
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        <![CDATA[Coupang’s data breach is turning into a diplomatic row]]>
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        <![CDATA[How porn stars can survive in the age of AI]]>
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        <![CDATA[A dispatch from the world’s premier adult-entertainment conference]]>
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        <![CDATA[Ryanair might be the world’s most successful airline ]]>
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        <![CDATA[The low-cost carrier is flying high]]>
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        <![CDATA[Will the smartphone survive the AI age?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Apple-Android duopoly is under attack from OpenAI, Meta and Amazon]]>
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        <![CDATA[The battle for Warner Bros is only getting fiercer]]>
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        <![CDATA[Netflix has sweetened its offer to fend off Paramount]]>
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        <![CDATA[Signing the office birthday card]]>
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        <![CDATA[A simple task made complicated by work    ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Strava’s public listing will help it race ahead of competitors]]>
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        <![CDATA[It needs extra financial oomph to expand its coaching offerings]]>
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        <![CDATA[Europe can still win the other AI race]]>
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        <![CDATA[Use of the technology is picking up pace]]>
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        <![CDATA[Chinese AI models are popular. But can they make money?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Building world-class software was the easy part]]>
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        <![CDATA[TikTok is still a danger. America no longer cares]]>
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        <![CDATA[The app will be owned by allies of the president but retain ties to China]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why the beauty industry is booming]]>
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        <![CDATA[Plain bottles with clinical labels are part of the secret]]>
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        <![CDATA[The parable of the supermarket self-checkout]]>
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        <![CDATA[How imperfect technologies spread]]>
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        <![CDATA[Innovations in energy and finance are further inflating the AI bubble]]>
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        <![CDATA[How to bust bottlenecks]]>
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        <![CDATA[The race for copper has brought a wave of mining mega-mergers]]>
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        <![CDATA[But consolidation will not ease the shortage]]>
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        <![CDATA[How Saks Fifth Avenue’s owner went bust]]>
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        <![CDATA[The posh department-store group has itself to blame]]>
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        <![CDATA[Under growing pressure, Elon Musk backs down on nude deepfakes]]>
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        <![CDATA[A new generation of Chinese companies is expanding around the world ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Who will cash in on Venezuelan oil?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Rewards will require taking big risks]]>
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        <![CDATA[Job applicants are winning the AI arms race against recruiters]]>
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        <![CDATA[Companies have been hit by a wave of chatbot-generated applications]]>
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        <![CDATA[The problem with promotions]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Peter principle is alive and well ]]>
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        <![CDATA[The AI frenzy is creating a big problem for consumer electronics]]>
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        <![CDATA[Prices are rocketing for an essential component]]>
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        <![CDATA[Welcome to the age of the vodcast]]>
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        <![CDATA[Audio shows are switching on their cameras in search of new audiences]]>
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        <![CDATA[Germany’s industrial conglomerates are breaking up to stay alive]]>
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        <![CDATA[Economic woes are accelerating a trend of divestments]]>
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        <![CDATA[China’s wind giants are coming for Europe]]>
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        <![CDATA[A new-year message from the CEO]]>
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        <![CDATA[OpenAI faces a make-or-break year in 2026]]>
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        <![CDATA[As Warren Buffett retires, uncertainty looms for Berkshire Hathaway]]>
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        <![CDATA[Luxury handbags may be shoddier than you think]]>
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        <![CDATA[Vietnam’s EV champion is bleeding cash]]>
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        <![CDATA[Netflix and Paramount are battling for more than Warner Bros]]>
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        <![CDATA[Even Europe’s penmakers are under threat]]>
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        <![CDATA[Patrick Drahi has bested his lenders yet again]]>
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        <![CDATA[Lessons from the frontiers of AI adoption]]>
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        <![CDATA[Google has pierced Nvidia’s aura of invulnerability]]>
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        <![CDATA[Indians are getting more fashionable]]>
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        <![CDATA[Donald Trump and the unseemly rise of “insider capitalism”]]>
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        <![CDATA[The returns to access in America are soaring]]>
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        <![CDATA[Cracks are appearing in OpenAI’s dominant façade]]>
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        <![CDATA[A deal between Anthropic, Microsoft and Nvidia makes AI more circular ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Shut up, or suck up? How CEOs are dealing with Donald Trump]]>
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        <![CDATA[Chief executives are learning to live with a unique commander-in-chief]]>
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        <![CDATA[Elon Musk’s $1trn pay deal highlights companies’ superstar dilemma]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can firms hedge against losing key talent?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The 10-4 rule for interacting with customers]]>
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        <![CDATA[Is Target’s new policy bonkers, businesslike or a bit of both?]]>
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        <![CDATA[TSMC’s cautious expansion is frustrating the AI industry]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Taiwanese chipmaking giant has been burned by previous investment booms]]>
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        <![CDATA[Libellous chatbots could be AI’s next big legal headache]]>
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        <![CDATA[Companies from Google and Meta to OpenAI are getting sued for defamation]]>
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        <![CDATA[The seven deadly sins of corporate exuberance]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[A frenzy of financial innovation has ensnared America Inc. What could go wrong?]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/business/2025/11/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-corporate-exuberance</link>
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        <![CDATA[The costs of dating your boss ]]>
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        <![CDATA[New research shows breakups come with big wage penalties ]]>
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        <![CDATA[How HR took over the world]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The profession has rocketed in size and stature. Will AI shrink it?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Elon Musk’s $1trn pay deal is a troubling display of corporate capture]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[He has Tesla and its board wrapped around his finger]]>
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        <![CDATA[China’s life-sciences industry is turning American]]>
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        <![CDATA[Meanwhile, America is abandoning its winning formula]]>
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        <![CDATA[America’s furniture-makers exemplify the folly of tariffs]]>
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        <![CDATA[Donald Trump is pushing up costs to rescue an industry that has already adapted to globalisation]]>
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        <![CDATA[Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?]]>
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        <![CDATA[A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why Palantir’s success will outlast AI exuberance]]>
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        <![CDATA[Its valuation looks bonkers. Its business isn’t]]>
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        <![CDATA[First, grinning Labubu dolls. Now, a TV show and theme parks]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Pop Mart, maker of the wildly popular toys, wants to be China’s Disney ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Will AI make dating apps better—or even worse?]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Tinder, Hinge and Bumble are betting big on the technology]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/business/2025/11/03/will-ai-make-dating-apps-better-or-even-worse</link>
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        <![CDATA[Has Airbnb reached its peak?]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Brian Chesky, its boss, wants to offer more than just a bed to sleep on]]>
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        <![CDATA[Google v Microsoft: the battle of AI business models]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The search giant’s vertically integrated approach is beginning to pay off]]>
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      <link>https://www.economist.com/business/2025/10/30/google-v-microsoft-the-battle-of-ai-business-models</link>
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        <![CDATA[Porsche’s warning lights are flashing]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The carmaker’s new CEO will confront three big challenges]]>
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        <![CDATA[LinkedIn and the art of self-promotion]]>
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        <![CDATA[Everyone does it. It’s still appalling. #HornTooted]]>
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        <![CDATA[Sweden’s leading business dynasty prepares for succession]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The sixth generation of Wallenbergs is stepping up]]>
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        <![CDATA[Europe’s defence firms are flying. Now for the hard part]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Valuations have surged since Donald Trump’s return. Are investors heading for disappointment?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Weight-loss drugs are spreading across the world]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The expiry of patents in China, India and elsewhere will boost uptake dramatically]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why big oil is missing out on the AI energy bonanza]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[A looming supply glut is weighing on giants from ExxonMobil to Shell]]>
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        <![CDATA[American big business faces a $1trn capex question]]>
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        <![CDATA[Looking under the bonnet of the non-AI economy]]>
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        <![CDATA[Beware the “romance of leadership” ]]>
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        <![CDATA[When it comes to bosses, one size does not fit all]]>
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        <![CDATA[Sports leagues find that streaming pirates have their purposes]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[There are ways of monetising their viewers]]>
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        <![CDATA[OpenAI and Anthropic v app developers: tech’s Cronos syndrome  ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Will the labs devour the apps that run on their models?]]>
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        <![CDATA[In South Korea a corporate-governance revolution is under way]]>
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        <![CDATA[But the investor-friendly overhaul the government wants will take time]]>
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        <![CDATA[The mercenary business is on the brink of another boom ]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Private military companies come in many different stripes]]>
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        <![CDATA[Despite abstemious Gen Zs, the booze industry is going strong ]]>
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        <![CDATA[It’s too soon to declare the death of drinking]]>
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        <![CDATA[Sloponomics: who wins and loses in the AI-content flood?]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Against all odds, the deluge might be good for creators]]>
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        <![CDATA[Why bosses need to wake up to dark patterns ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Of roach motels and countdown clocks]]>
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        <![CDATA[TED gets new bosses and changes direction]]>
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        <![CDATA[The event organiser heads into ed tech]]>
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        <![CDATA[The remarkable rise of AppLovin]]>
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        <![CDATA[A fast rising digital-ad firm attracts both enthusiasts and sceptics]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Dutch seize control of Nexperia from its Chinese owner]]>
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        <![CDATA[The most aggressive move yet in Europe’s effort to save its semiconductor industry]]>
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        <![CDATA[China is going after American firms to hit back at Donald Trump]]>
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        <![CDATA[Its investigation of Qualcomm may be the latest example]]>
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        <![CDATA[Never mind America’s real economy. Its deal economy is booming]]>
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        <![CDATA[Donald Trump has unleashed an M&A bonanza]]>
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        <![CDATA[What if OpenAI went belly-up?]]>
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        <![CDATA[To gauge the centrality of the AI superstar, we conduct a thought experiment]]>
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        <![CDATA[A short guide to white-collar warfare]]>
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        <![CDATA[How office rows escalate]]>
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        <![CDATA[Bottled water is going upmarket]]>
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        <![CDATA[Nestlé and Danone are doubling down on premium brands ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Businesses are grappling with a wave of cybercrime ]]>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[Blame sharper and more ruthless criminals, and digital currencies]]>
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        <![CDATA[The sinister disappearance of China’s bosses]]>
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        <![CDATA[Detentions, public shaming and suicides intensify the country’s corporate gloom]]>
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        <![CDATA[Luxury goods are out, but luxury travel is in]]>
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        <![CDATA[Bonfire of the middle managers ]]>
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        <![CDATA[How bosses unwittingly exert power ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Messages can be received, even if none have actually been sent ]]>
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        <![CDATA[ByteDance will be better off without TikTok US]]>
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        <![CDATA[There is a lot more to the Chinese tech giant than its American offshoot]]>
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        <![CDATA[With Electronic Arts, Saudi Arabia scores a record buy-out]]>
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        <![CDATA[Play private equity on expert mode]]>
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        <![CDATA[Armin Papperger’s vaulting ambitions for Rheinmetall]]>
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        <![CDATA[He wants his fast-growing German armsmaker to be bigger still]]>
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        <![CDATA[Does big pharma gouge Americans? ]]>
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        <![CDATA[In the bloated health-care system, others are the real money-makers ]]>
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        <![CDATA[America’s newest media moguls: the Ellisons]]>
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        <![CDATA[With Warner Bros and TikTok, the family would be a force in old and new media]]>
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        <![CDATA[The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom]]>
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        <![CDATA[How similar is it to the 1990s telecoms bubble?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Donald Trump is waging war on sky-high drug prices. Can he win? ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Big pharma faces a reckoning in America]]>
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        <![CDATA[Nvidia’s $100bn bet on OpenAI raises plenty of questions ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Meanwhile, the building of AI data-centres gathers pace ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Novo Nordisk v Eli Lilly: return of the weight-loss wars]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can the two heavyweights excite investors once again?]]>
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        <![CDATA[How AI is changing the office ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Did you listen to the new Dwarkesh?]]>
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        <![CDATA[A fast-growing German coffee chain causes a stir]]>
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        <![CDATA[Cheap, decent coffee isn’t to everyone’s taste]]>
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        <![CDATA[The individual usurps the firm as the leading actor in business]]>
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        <![CDATA[The winners who take it all]]>
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        <![CDATA[Nvidia’s $100bn bet on OpenAI raises more questions than it answers]]>
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        <![CDATA[What if OpenAI hits a roadblock?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The perverse consequence of America’s $100,000 visa fees ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Offshoring to India and other countries could accelerate ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Nvidia’s $5bn stake in Intel is a shrewd political move ]]>
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        <![CDATA[But it deepens the incestuousness of the AI industry ]]>
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        <![CDATA[The $4trn accounting puzzle at the heart of the AI cloud]]>
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        <![CDATA[A beancounter’s look at the hyperscalers’ balance-sheets]]>
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        <![CDATA[Are you addicted to shopping?]]>
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        <![CDATA[On social media, it can be hard to resist the urge to splurge]]>
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        <![CDATA[Can the UAE gain a foothold in AI by being friends with everyone?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Emiratis’ carefully calibrated large language model]]>
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        <![CDATA[If quarterly-earnings rules were scrapped, would anyone notice?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Donald Trump’s criticism misses the point]]>
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        <![CDATA[How many reports should a manager have?]]>
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        <![CDATA[The span of control]]>
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        <![CDATA[Despite presidential animus, America’s solar industry is buzzing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The brutal fight to dominate Chinese carmaking ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Pity Ford, VW and other Western manufacturers ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Reviewing the annual performance review]]>
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        <![CDATA[What would happen if the tables were turned?]]>
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        <![CDATA[Things have gone from sweet to bitter at the world’s biggest food firm]]>
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        <![CDATA[How do you pronounce Biemlfdlkk? The brands lost in translation]]>
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