In response, Xi Jinping, China’s ruler, introduced a policy called “supply-side structural reform”. Its original aim was to ...

It seems Hollywood’s screenwriters are “doomers” when it comes to artificial intelligence, believing it poses an existential ...

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The construction industry is plagued by low productivity, in part because not enough people are willing to work in it. A startup in the Netherlands is trying to fill that gap. Monumental has a team of ...

President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, now working its way through Congress, permanently extends tax cuts ...

On June 27th the foreign ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo stood smiling in the Oval Office next to ...

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This is the uncomfortable question before Julie Sweet, Accenture’s boss since 2019. Her two-part answer has been to insist ...

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In spring Ukraine announced plans to deploy 15,000 ground robots. Some key players predict that the face of the battlefield ...