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Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s turbulent bet on AI

A year of internal disorder, fluctuating priorities and colossal spending at Meta has rattled insiders and investors

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The Big Read

What happens if AI data centres slip the ‘surly bonds of earth’?

Outsourcing this infrastructure to space comes with a host of problems

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Anjana Ahuja

Open source could pop the AI bubble — and soon

Valuations rest on the incorrect assumption that frontier model creators have built massive, durable moats

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Mark Surman

When business and democracy don’t mix

Liberals were wrong to assume the two ideas are natural twins

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Janan Ganesh

Jimmy Lai’s conviction is ominous for Hong Kong

Verdict leaves no doubt about the consequences of standing up to Beijing

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The Editorial Board

The worried investor’s guide to 2026

While markets were buoyant this year, volatility is never far away

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Katie Martin

The AfD’s love-in with Maga

Senior members of the German far-right visited Washington last week in an effort to cement relations with the GOP

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Constanze Stelzenmüller

Australia’s tragedy and the global rise of antisemitism

Extremist terrorism is a major threat, but is one end of a continuum

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The Editorial Board

Critical minerals should not be stockpiled for military use

The US is funnelling materials such as cobalt and graphite into national defence rather than new climate technologies

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Lorah Steichen

The politics of the Nobel Prize

This year, the world’s highest-profile celebration of scientific excellence wants to celebrate academic freedom

tuesday 2

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Michael Peel

Low growth is now Europe’s biggest financial-stability risk

You cannot keep tightening the screws on the institutions that finance the real economy

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Ana Botin

Fifa scores an own goal with its World Cup ticket prices

Next year’s tournament in North America is turning into an elitist spectacle

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The Editorial Board

Mexico’s China tariffs show the rise of Trump’s trade template

Such measures wouldn’t be necessary if Beijing ran anything like a normal, balanced economy

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Peter Navarro

Bondi attacks show old hatreds are flourishing again

A permissive environment has been created in which Israel is conflated with all Jews, everywhere

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Stephen Bush

Is the ‘Made by AI’ label pointless?

The experience of the video game industry suggests transparency about AI use won’t be straightforward

tuesday 3

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Sarah Oconnor

The Trump back channel: how diplomacy works in Washington

Rather than use the traditional policy process, foreign governments are dealing with the handful of envoys who appear to have the president’s ear

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The Big Read

Trump’s war on Europe

American foreign policy now aims to help rightwing nationalists into power across the continent

tuesday 10

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Martin Wolf

Macron: We urgently need to rebalance EU-China relations

Resolving serious trade imbalances will require co-operation and co-ordinated action

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Emmanuel Macron

China’s escalation dominance over Trump

The US president has handed the initiative to Beijing in tech, energy and security

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Edward Luce

Labour’s re-election hopes rest on the private sector

Public services will only show improvement with money and expertise that comes from outside government

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David Gauke

How the EU can make the single market work better

Brussels has more power to apply and enforce the rules than it is currently using

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The Editorial Board

The chutzpah of Marjorie Taylor Greene

Once a pugnacious devotee, the former Maga maximalist is now one of the few Republicans who stand up to Trump

15.12.2025 10

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Jemima Kelly

Brussels is finally flexing its muscle on Russian assets

The EU’s economic security depends on turning itself into more of a power player

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Martin Sandbu

The four ‘O’s that shape a bubble

And what this test tells us about the artificial intelligence wave

15.12.2025 10

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Ruchir Sharma

The elite British private school that lost its way in Singapore

Former staff allege bullying, misogyny and safeguarding lapses at the city-state outpost of North London Collegiate School

15.12.2025 20

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Ft Investigations

China’s $1tn trade surplus is a problem for Beijing — and the world

The country’s growth model is becoming increasingly hard to sustain

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Eswar Prasad