Two months on from its release, DeepSeek’s R1, which wowed experts and caused American tech stocks to crash in January, is still unbeaten. The Chinese firm’s artificial-intelligence (AI) model remains the best...
On March 20th the 109 members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)—a group that includes the grand duke of Luxembourg, a former Costa Rican president and an Oscar-winning actress from Malaysia—will gather...
Friends help each other out. Tesla’s boss, Elon Musk, may well have been grateful when Donald Trump said he would buy one of its electric vehicles (EVs) on March 11th. Yet that...
Just hours after the launch on March 6th of Manus, a Chinese artificial-intelligence (AI) bot, a flood of visitors caused its registration site to crash. Butterfly Effect, the company behind the bot,...
AT THE START of the year dealmakers around the globe were sharpening their pencils. Donald Trump’s incoming administration was promising to slash corporate taxes and tear up red tape in the world’s...
“Defence is now by far the most dynamic sector of German industry,” says Armin Papperger, chief executive of Rheinmetall, Germany’s biggest arms producer. Until recently no one, including Mr Papperger, the firm’s...
Alongside the crisps in the snack aisle, supermarkets are now stacking shelves with roasted chickpeas, cheese bites and beef jerky. An array of high-protein alternatives is appearing alongside low-fat and low-sugar foods....
THERE IS LITTLE reason to cheer the cooling of relations between America and the European Union. But it’s an ill wind that blows no one any good. In the fast-growing world of...
