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Donald Trump has threatened to destroy Iran’s power plants to force a deal. Tehran warns that retaliation could reach the Gulf’s water supplies, energy installations and American bases. An infrastructure war could spread through Asian factories, European energy markets and household budgets worldwide, while leaving the political dispute unresolved. The ability to inflict destruction offers no guarantee of securing an agreement.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI could transform the economy without rewarding everyone financing it. As governments and technology companies compete for capital, higher borrowing costs are testing the returns on computing infrastructure.
China’s export earnings and vast financial reserves provide a cushion against the Middle East energy crisis. But smaller manufacturers face a harder calculation as…
Germany
The AfD has won 43.8 per cent in Saxony-Anhalt but remains three seats short of a majority. Its historic victory exposes the political and economic failures that carried it from an anti-euro protest party…
Washington’s attempt to tighten the economic isolation of Iran faces a fundamental obstacle: China, the dominant buyer of Iranian oil. Beijing is warning against…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence is beginning to search for discoveries, conduct experiments and improve research systems. From Weco AI and Google DeepMind to Chinese science programmes, the race is moving beyond chatbots. But machines remain far…
Britain has world class finance, universities, science and enormous pools of capital. Yet it invests less than any other G7 economy and struggles to…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. The world’s leading laboratories are no longer focused only on building better chatbots. They are increasingly trying to automate research itself creating systems that can generate ideas,…
For three decades the world appeared to move in one direction. Trade expanded, technology erased distance and globalisation seemed irreversible. Today those assumptions are…