Business

Feeding the machine

What are the threats to the $1trn artificial-intelligence boom?

A fast-growing supply chain is at risk of over-extending

Prestige and the podium

LVMH is splurging on the Olympics

Will it pay off?

Dogfight

Can China smash the Airbus-Boeing duopoly?

It hopes to succeed where others have failed

Bartleby

Machines might not take your job. But they could make it worse

How robots and AI change the meaningfulness of work

Schumpeter

Why is Mark Zuckerberg giving away Meta’s crown jewels?

Augustus Caesar goes on the open-source warpath

A fossil-fuel fantasy

Donald Trump’s promise of a golden age for oil is fanciful

There is not much he could do to boost fossil fuels—or rein in clean energy

Bump start

China’s robotaxis are racing ahead of Tesla’s

Baidu is leaving Western carmakers in the dust

Lower your aspirations

Can Burberry put its chequered past behind it?

The British label’s new boss has his work cut out

Research developments

China is the West’s corporate R&D lab. Can it remain so?

Foreign firms want Chinese boffins. America and China may have other plans

Shop lifting

Can anyone save Macy’s?

America’s biggest department store has rejected a takeover. Now what?

Bartleby

How a CEO knows when to quit

Bosses have a shelf life and plenty of incentives to misjudge what it is

Wiz kid

Google wants a piece of Microsoft’s cyber-security business

A $23bn acquisition of Wiz, an Israeli startup, is the search giant’s biggest ever