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So long iPhone. Generative AI needs a new device

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.WHEN A BEAMING Mark Zuckerberg took the stage in Menlo Park on September...

The Indian business of blowing things up is booming

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.THOSE WHO want to gauge India’s economic prospects often look to businesses that...

How to make hot-desking work

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.The highest private terrace in Manhattan belongs to an algorithmic-trading company called Hudson...

America’s bosses grapple with threats to diversity policies

On june 29th America’s Supreme Court ended 45 years of affirmative action in university admissions. The decision did not change the laws which govern companies’ hiring and firing decisions. But it did...

Films and the white-collar workplace

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.The office is not the most promising setting for films. Desk warriors can...

Customer service is getting worse—and so are customers

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.Rare is the company today that does not claim to be “customer-centric”. Anyone...

What if Hollywood blockbusters were remade as workplace dramas?

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.The office is not the most promising setting for films. Desk warriors can...

Pharma’s big push for a new generation of obesity drugs

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.FIVE YEARS ago Novo Nordisk was a boring Danish drugmaker whose diabetes medications...

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