2026-04-24 12:00:20
Chelsea FC fired its manager after losing five straight Premier League games without scoring a goal, marking its worst run of defeats in more than a century. Management changes are nothing remarkable in the results-driven business of top-level football, but the upheaval at the west London club has a wider resonance. The team’s imploding form and the rising disenchantment of supporters call into question the compatibility of private equity-style methods with English soccer. Four years after US in
2026-04-24 11:30:18
One of the most fundamental ingredients of Silicon Valley success is the practice of dominating a market to rapidly achieve massive scale. The strategy has a name, blitzscaling, coined by billionaire venture capitalist Reid Hoffman, and it has created unfathomable wealth for companies in social media, ride-hailing and streaming. But not so much artificial intelligence.
2026-04-24 11:00:18
Should an exceptional restaurant be a singular or plural place? Do you prefer a one-of-a-kind experience that requires a pilgrimage, such as to El Bulli’s location in an out-of-the-way cove on the Costa Brava? Or do you find reassurance in, say, Nobu being everywhere (well, at least in the 50 or so cities around the world where it has sprung up)?
2026-04-24 05:00:48
Large language models are getting better and better at more and more, but they can still sometimes be foiled by a hair dryer.
2026-04-24 04:00:20
As policymakers in New Delhi put their heads together to deal with the long-term impact on India’s economy from a prolonged Iran war, they should stare deep into their teacups. The leaves at the bottom may hold the clue to a simple but powerful mitigating strategy: Respect the sun.
2026-04-24 03:00:18
Japan’s decision to lift restrictions on the export of lethal arms has many hoping the country can be the defense supplier to the world. Ending this decades-old taboo would have been politically unthinkable just a decade ago. Nonetheless, this is the easy part.
