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Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, says he wants a slow down.

The EconomistShould Anthropic press pause on a potential $2.8t IPO?

Throughout its five-and-a-half-year history, Anthropic, an artificial-intelligence lab, has grappled with how to build AI safely while making enough money to push forward the frontier of research.

Supply concerns are returning to the spotlight, with investors watching for the next opportunities in oil.

The EconomistHow an oil-supply crisis could bring about investment boom

THE ECONOMIST: A Gulf-war windfall has boosted balance-sheets and enriched shareholders.

A old but new aesthetic is taking hold in Silicon Valley.

TechnologySilicon Valley is suddenly obsessed with the past

THE ECONOMIST: An old but new aesthetic is taking hold in Silicon Valley and beyond.

AI has almost certainly created quite a few new jobs.

The EconomistAI was supposed to destroy jobs. It’s doing the opposite

THE ECONOMIST: The AI boom is creating employment opportunities faster than it destroys them.

Rate-setters are responding to growing evidence of rising price pressure.

The EconomistGlobal inflation is back and so is the fight against it

THE ECONOMIST: The world’s central banks are bracing for another round as global inflation heats up — again.

Jensen Huang takes a selfie with an attendee at Computex 2026 in Taipei.

The EconomistHow Jensen Huang became AI’s Taylor Swift

THE ECONOMIST: When the Nvidia boss returns to his native Taiwan, things get a little wild.

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A humanoid robot procession at the the 2nd World Robot Games.

The EconomistChina’s growing army of humanoid robots comes at a cost

THE ECONOMIST: China it is set to produce and sell hundreds of thousands of costly but mostly useless machines in the hope that it can make cheap and useful ones in future.

Cooper Hoffman and Olivia Wilde in I Want Your Sex.

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Why Hollywood has gone wild for cougars in latest obsession

THE ECONOMIST: Older-woman-younger-man relationships are increasingly being reflected on screen as they become more common in real life.

AI needs office workers to actually use it.

The EconomistThe big AI user problem nobody talks about

AI needs trillions in revenue to justify the boom. But getting ordinary workers to embrace it is proving difficult.

Being a weirdo could be good for the bottom line.

The EconomistBeing a weirdo could make you rich

THE ECONOMIST: Becoming a successful investor seems to require a big dose of luck and a distinctly odd character

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Scientists are meditating on the possibility of conscious machines.

The EconomistCould AI one day actually have feelings?

THE ECONOMIST: Scientists are trying to figure out whether algorithms could one day wake up and feel

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is attempting to push down borrowing costs as rising bond yields put pressure on the Trump administration.

The EconomistUS Treasury Secretary picking a fight with the bond market

THE ECONOMIST: America’s Treasury Secretary wants to be its top bond salesman. But his increasingly aggressive tactics could make the product harder to sell.

AI giants are increasingly in the saddle.

The EconomistStock market’s AI problem revealed

THE ECONOMIST: A handful of AI giants are increasingly calling the shots on global indices, and the numbers may not tell the story investors think they do.