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What the IMF did not say on Wednesday matters as much as what it did.
In one example from Shenzhen, a former product manager laid off from a major platform company is now running what she calls a business of one, using generative AI to write ad copy, design storefronts, and produce short-form video dramas from a repurposed industrial park where the rent is subsidised by the local government.
Halfway through 2026, cybersecurity has stopped functioning as a technology beat and started functioning as a geopolitics beat.
Ozempic lists for roughly $969 in the United States and around €59 in Germany — the same pen, the same molecule, made in the same Danish factory. The reason winds back to a Nobel laureate's 1922 trip to Toronto.
If you own a dog, there is a reasonable chance its retractable lead was made by a company called Flexi, based in a town in northern Germany, which by its own account and most industry estimates holds around 70 percent of the world market for exactly that product and does nothing else.
I started taking protein powder a few weeks ago, after roughly a decade of treating it the way some people treat cults: intriguing from a distance, definitely not for me.
Around 26.5 billion euros in revenue in 2024, about 200,000 employees, and a description, from its own lenders, as the most integrated group in the optical market.
COBOL remains embedded in banking and government systems because replacing old code means replacing decades of business logic, not just a programming language.
Stripe processed $1.4 trillion in payment volume in 2024 — roughly 2.6 times Ireland's GDP — and the founders built the first version in a Palo Alto apartment before either turned 25.
Across France, Spain, Germany and Poland this week, control room operators are watching two graphs at once: the air temperature outside, and the temperature of the river water flowing past their nuclear plants.
A Detroit pension fund has filed a derivative lawsuit against Uber's board and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, accusing the ride-hailing company of operating as a serial compliance offender that knowingly cut corners on safety.
Qatar is sending empty LNG carriers back through the Strait of Hormuz, and the fact that this counts as news tells you everything about how much the global gas market has been holding its breath for the past three weeks.
