“Putting the customer at the heart of everything we do” is the boilerplate response of choice for new chief executives....
Letter from London
FOMO—the fear of missing out—used to be a shorthand favorite of young people worried about not being at the right party on...
“Europe has been worrying about slowing growth since the start of this century,” Mario Draghi said in 2024. “Various strategies...
Fly-by-wire technology, packaged food safety, the quakeproofing of buildings, and rechargeable hearing-aid batteries—the list of innovations linked to the Apollo missions is as long as it is eclectic. NASA is so proud of the...
A frog does not know it is being boiled until it is too late. Lawmakers in London feel the same about artificial general intelligence—the next...
C-suite executives from around the world could have been forgiven for reaching for the atlas when the former Mayor of Manchester (a smallish city 200 miles...
VivaTech in Paris is ten years old. In 2016, 45,000 attended the first event. This year, at least 180,000 delegates will make...
Mention of Brazil’s ‘market reserve policy’ is still capable of sending a chill through technology enthusiasts of a certain age. Introduced in the 1970s, when the country...
When the supply of toilet paper started running out back in 2013, the Venezuelan authorities came up with a novel explanation. “95% of people eat...
By design, central banks are cautious. Protecting a nation’s currency and financial stability are serious matters, ill-suited to risk-taking and chancy...
Baking is a tough business. Every morning from 6am customers want a tasty product to start their day. Margins are small and competition intense (lots of people can make...
When Demis Hassabis was 6 years old, he remembers his father giving him the age-old reassurance prompt used every day...
There was a simple narrative about Rishi Sunak when he was defeated in the U.K. general election of 2024. The...
There was a simple narrative about Rishi Sunak when he was defeated in the U.K. general election of 2024. The...
When the bombs started raining down on Iran on February 28, many business leaders hoped the conflict would be short and the...
“What torments of grief you’ve endured from evils that never arrived,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 19th-century American philosopher and writer. Millions of...