2025-12-10 18:00:22
Is the White House’s artificial intelligence policy America First or simply Silicon Valley First? After this week, I’m leaning sharply towards the latter. It’s surely the only way to reconcile Washington’s conflicting policy choices, where China is made a useful bogeyman until Big Tech is interested in selling Beijing its wares.
2025-12-10 13:17:15
Affordability and a repeat of second-year market corrections hang over the midterms.
2025-12-10 13:00:23
Growth was meant to be the UK government’s priority. Instead, it has become a casualty. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves have to drag it back from the margins.
2025-12-10 13:00:22
As the European Union ages, it’s increasingly dependent on migration to sustain its economies. Unfortunately, the bloc’s inability to manage this influx is warping its politics. Unless it can build a better system — one that combines credible border controls with economic opportunity — it risks further decline and fracture.
2025-12-10 12:30:22
President Donald Trump finally received his sought-after peace prize on Friday. Except it wasn’t from the Nobel Foundation but from FIFA, an institution charged with overseeing penalty shootouts in soccer rather than geopolitics. I’m not much of a football fan — I prefer rugby — but how can this sycophancy to a world leader who’s pulled his nation out of the Paris Agreement and calls climate change a “con job” serve either athletes or soccer fans?
2025-12-10 12:00:22
After being caught on the back foot by OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT, Alphabet Inc.’s Google has performed a miracle: It has caught up. Its artificial-intelligence models are now as good as its rival’s. But did Google achieve that acceleration by playing fair? Perhaps not. And the regulatory answer to that question could hurt if the company is forced to make a change that hampers its AI prospects, even if that’s healthier for the market.
