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.
2025-12-10 05:56:55
Hundreds of thousands of teens under the age of 16 are now locked out of their favorite apps, but plenty of loopholes remain.
2025-12-10 05:00:22
After being elected head of Japan’s ruling party, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s pledge to “work, work, work, work, work” for the people made such an impact that, even in a nation known for toiling hard, it was voted “buzzword of the year.”
2025-12-10 04:00:22
For pharmaceutical firms, watching the lucrative patents on their top-selling drugs expire has long been part of the business cycle. There’s enormous pressure to find ways of covering the shortfall. For the first time, China has something to offer. Its prolific biotech companies are now in the mix as a potent remedy for the upcoming so-called “patent cliff” facing the industry.
2025-12-10 03:47:36
The conservative majority of the Supreme Court, working in tandem with the Trump administration, appears poised to eliminate independent administrative agencies — that much was clear from Monday’s oral argument on the firing of Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Kelly Slaughter.
