A US defense secretary refusing to say the word 'Taiwan,' a stalled arms package, and a president echoing Beijing's talking points — Taipei is reading the tea leaves, and it doesn't love the brew.
Imagine inheriting the world's biggest watch empire — then watching your stock crater 75%, an American activist storming your boardroom, and Swiss pensioners calling you the problem. Welcome to Swatch.
Accenture has 786,000 employees whose job is helping companies adopt new tech. So what happens when the new tech can do the helping itself — and do it for cheaper?
A 500-hectare patch of Moroccan farmland near Tangier has become the front line of a brewing trade war — and Brussels is increasingly convinced China is using it to sneak past Europe's tariff wall.
The world's most valuable company already won the data centre. Now Nvidia wants the chip inside your laptop — and it's coming for Apple, Intel, AMD and Qualcomm all at once.
Amazon built a scoreboard to celebrate employees who used its AI tools the most. Workers promptly figured out that the fastest way to win was to waste the company's money.
The world's biggest electric-car maker quietly financed its rise by paying suppliers in IOUs. Then Beijing said: stop. Now BYD's debt is exploding — and the bill is due.
Wall Street spent months treating software-as-a-service stocks like dying patients. Then Snowflake jumped 37% in a single day — and suddenly investors are wondering if they buried the wrong company.
Uber wants to be the single app for everything in your life. But buying Europe's biggest food-delivery company to get there might prove that ambition is actually a weakness.
While Britain frets about industrial decline and a fading global role, one homegrown product keeps conquering the planet — and it isn't tea, finance, or even the BBC. It's football.
For a century, elite consultants sold one product: their time. Now AI can do an analyst's week in an afternoon — so McKinsey is racing to sell something far riskier instead: results.
A Florida utility just agreed to spend $420 billion buying its rival — not to sell more electricity to homes, but to feed the insatiable power appetite of AI data centers. That's the new logic of M&A.
When Iranian drones started hitting Saudi neighbors, Riyadh didn't just call its generals — it called its accountants, and quietly froze billions in payments to McKinsey, BCG, and the Big Four.
Almost every Fortune 500 company you've heard of — Amazon, JPMorgan, Mercedes-Benz — runs a secret engine room inside India. It's now bigger than India's entire IT exports industry was a decade ago.
Xi Jinping gave Donald Trump rose seeds to plant at the White House — and almost nothing else. After two days in Beijing's grandest halls, the world's two biggest powers walked away with pageantry, no breakthroughs, and a fresh warning abou
Picture two presidents shaking hands on a red carpet — and one of them quietly telling the other that a single 100-mile-wide strait could blow up the world's most important relationship.
Europe's most unloved airline has lost nearly a third of its value this year — and that, paradoxically, is exactly why some investors are starting to circle.
Move your AI startup's headquarters from Beijing to Singapore, sell it to Meta for $2bn, exit cleanly. That was the plan — until China killed it and exposed a loophole the entire tech world had been quietly using.
France wants to lead Europe's nuclear comeback with six giant new reactors — but its state-owned champion EDF is so bloated and political that critics call it 'a state within a state.'
Nintendo just sold almost 20 million Switch 2 consoles in a year — and still had to apologize and raise prices. The villain isn't greed; it's a global memory-chip shortage.
For nearly 40 years, LVMH only ever bought. Now Bernard Arnault — Europe's richest man — is quietly hanging 'For Sale' signs on Marc Jacobs, Rihanna's Fenty Beauty, and a chunk of his luxury empire.
Fifty years ago, two cousins started a firm with $120,000 and a controversial idea — buy companies with borrowed money. Today that idea runs a chunk of the global economy, but it's wobbling.
An $11 billion video-game retailer just bid $56 billion for an e-commerce giant four times its size. Wall Street laughed. Reddit cheered. Welcome to the first true meme-stock-driven takeover attempt.
The CEO of Europe's largest wealth manager just told the Financial Times the continent is sleepwalking into decline — and hinted his own bank might pack up and move to America.
For three years, AI hype has been all about Nvidia's GPUs. But suddenly, the unsexy chips and dusty software companies of 'Old IT' are roaring back — and Wall Street is scrambling to figure out why.
Munekazu and Erin Tanikawa thought they bought a Tokyo-area dream apartment. Four months later, an investor consortium bought the parking lot below — to build a 52-metre data centre on it.
Home Depot built a $350 billion empire teaching weekend warriors to install their own sinks. Now, with high mortgage rates freezing the housing market, it's quietly betting its future on the people who install sinks for a living.
Imagine a minnow trying to eat a whale — then borrowing $16 billion to do it. That's roughly what GameStop's CEO Ryan Cohen is attempting with eBay, and Wall Street is stunned.
Imagine pirating millions of books — then telling a judge it's legal because you only stole them to teach a machine. That's roughly Meta's argument, and five major publishers just called the bluff.
When America's biggest crypto exchange announces it's cutting one in seven employees and replacing them with AI agents, you're either watching a productivity revolution—or a CEO using a buzzword to dress up an old-fashioned downturn.
When Iran chokes off the world's most important oil chokepoint, where does Saudi Arabia send its tankers? Suddenly, a desert mega-project everyone mocked starts looking like genius infrastructure.
Saudi Arabia spent more than $5 billion trying to muscle into professional golf. Four years later, the world's richest sovereign wealth fund is quietly walking away — and the sport is still figuring out what just happened.
An AI lab worth potentially $900 billion just teamed up with the world's biggest private-equity firms — not to raise money, but to build a consulting business that could eat McKinsey's lunch.
Imagine spending years and millions of dollars to build a wind farm — only to have the Department of Defense quietly stop returning your calls. That's exactly what's happening to 165 US projects right now.
China just blocked Meta from buying an AI startup that isn't even Chinese anymore — a $2bn shot across Silicon Valley's bow weeks before Trump and Xi sit down to talk.
A miracle drug that helps millions lose weight is colliding with a brutal corporate reality: somebody has to pay for it, and employers are increasingly saying 'not us.'
When Yemeni rebels started firing missiles at cargo ships in 2023, they didn't just disrupt one waterway — they redrew the map of global trade, possibly for years.
Two hundred years ago, only 12% of adults could read — and as literacy spread, human brains physically rewired. AI may be the next rewiring, except it's happening at warp speed.
A 109-year-old Japanese company famous for high-tech toilets just became one of the year's hottest AI stocks — without making a single chatbot, GPU, or data center.
An AI model costing four cents per task is about to vaporize $2.85 billion in human labor — and the company selling that AI captures less than 1% of the value it destroys.
AI executives love talking about saving humanity from their own creations. But when profit collides with principle, capitalism has a 200-year track record — and humanity's safety usually loses.
Apple is worth $4 trillion, dominates global tech, and just handed its CEO job to a hardware veteran — right as artificial intelligence threatens to make hardware the least interesting part of the industry.
One in four new cars sold worldwide last year ran on batteries — and researchers now say the shift away from petrol has crossed a threshold that politics alone can no longer reverse.
Imagine if every app on your phone was as disposable as a Shein top — built in an afternoon, worn for a season, then replaced without a second thought. That world is arriving now.
What if the world's most powerful military paused a war not out of mercy or diplomacy, but because it was quietly running out of the right kind of missiles?
DeepSeek shocked the world by building a ChatGPT rival on a shoestring — but now it's raising $20 billion, not for compute or chips, but to stop its own engineers from leaving.
Imagine cheating on a test by secretly photographing every answer the smartest kid writes — then selling your knockoff version for a tenth of the price. That's what the White House just accused China of doing to American AI.