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The Panama Canal has bigger problems than Trump

While Trump wages his campaign over port ownership, the canal faces threats no amount of geopolitical pressure can fix

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ChatGPT has come to its YouTube moment

Big Tech's familiar pattern is repeating itself in building first, regulating later, and hoping a sanitized kids' version can address parents'...

22.10.2025 10

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Trump is trying to kill solar. But solar keeps shining

With electricity grids straining and rates climbing, utilities are under pressure to add capacity quickly and cheaply. Solar delivers on both counts

20.10.2025 20

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AI and quantum computing are converging

It's less a merger than a mutual assistance pact between technologies that excel at different problems. The benefits flow in both directions

15.10.2025 10

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The EV race is basically over. China won

The gap between Chinese and American EVs keeps widening. Trump's tariffs won't change that. They'll just make Americans the last to know what they're...

14.10.2025 20

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The movie 'Her' imagined perfect AI companions. We built manipulative ones instead

Scarlett Johansson's Samantha feels less like science fiction than fantasy because no company would build her that way. The business model won't allow...

12.10.2025 10

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The AI data gold rush is over

Publishers are suing. Cloudflare has turned into the internet's bouncer. And AI companies are discovering they may have poisoned their own well

08.10.2025 3

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America goes gambling

A sports betting explosion has blurred the lines between gambling and investing. The rapid expansion has created unintended consequences

05.10.2025 20

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The problem with age-gating the internet

Part of the challenge lies in the inherent difficulty of teaching algorithms to make nuanced decisions about content

29.09.2025 20

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The penny stock is having a moment again

Penny stock IPOs are surging to levels not seen since the 1980s

24.09.2025 30

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Silicon Valley wants to escape the ‘Nvidia tax’

While Nvidia chips will continue dominating AI training, more new chips for inference could save companies tens of billions of dollars

22.09.2025 20

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Quantum computing is coming — and Corporate America isn't ready

Most companies are about as prepared for quantum computing's arrival as Blockbuster was for Netflix

15.09.2025 10

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Microsoft and OpenAI have reached a deal that could pave the way for the AI startup to go public

Oracle isn’t auditioning a clever app. It’s proposing an AI grid, and — for the moment — Wall Street is willing to finance the build

12.09.2025 7

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The AI bubble fears are getting worse. Wall Street doesn't want to talk about it

Wall Street finds itself caught between optimism and anxiety, deploying different vocabularies depending on which side of the ledger it's addressing

08.09.2025 8

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Why AI still can't replace Warren Buffett

More and more firms are using AI-powered investment funds — and while many are successful, they leave something to be desired

30.08.2025 10

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Old AI is beating new AI. Here's why

While billions pour into ChatGPT-style technologies, traditional, less splashy AI continues to power everything from Meta's profits to rocket design

28.08.2025 30

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The world's first electrostate is emerging

The world’s top oil importer is racing to control the technologies that will replace it.

25.08.2025 10

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America's power grid is no match for the AI data center boom

Data center demand for computing facilities that can consume as much power as entire cities, but America's electrical grid is struggling to keep pace.

18.08.2025 20

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YouTube beat Netflix, Spotify, and everyone else

With more viewers than Netflix and Disney combined, YouTube is now TV’s biggest player.

18.08.2025 20

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America’s global classroom is emptying

America has a $44 billion higher education problem.

13.08.2025 10

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Sam Altman's AI revolution hit a speed bump called GPT-5

The latest iteration of OpenAI's chatbot has disappointed users and made some humorous errors

11.08.2025 10

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Digital money is finally acting like money

Unlike volatile cryptocurrencies, stablecoins promise the infrastructure benefits of digital money without the wild price swings

04.08.2025 10

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The old internet is dying. What’s next?

The rise of AI search is coming with a brutal cost for traditional websites. For some businesses, it's nothing short of an existential crisis

28.07.2025 10

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Trump's AI agenda includes the doable — and the impossible

The ambitious agenda reveals a telling divide between what the government can deliver quickly and what may prove impossible to implement

24.07.2025 20

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The fake meat industry is getting desperate

After years of sky-high valuations, plant-based meat companies are grappling with shrinking sales and the reality that Americans prefer the real thing

21.07.2025 10

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Nvidia is back in China. Its banned chips were already there

While Washington debates easing chip export restrictions, there's already a thriving black market that has made the policy discussion largely academic

17.07.2025 6

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Knockoff weight loss drugs were supposed to be 'gone and illegal'. Now they're bigger than ever

Compounding pharmacies that pharma giants thought they had defeated when the FDA banned copycat weight loss drugs are using a legal loophole to keep...

16.07.2025 70

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Welcome to the IPO 'bonanza'

Unlike the manic rush of 2021, this IPO revival is built on companies that waited years to prove they could actually turn a profit before going public

14.07.2025 20

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Brain chips are getting smarter

Recent advances suggest brain chip technology is hitting its stride. The transformation is most visible in the first patient of Elon Musk’s Neuralink

07.07.2025 4

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Back to the Future turns 40. Doc Brown would never survive tech today

The 2025 version of Doc Brown would follow a different script, one written by venture capital rather than curiosity. He might look like Sam Altman

03.07.2025 10

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Meta’s AI teams are caught between competing visions

A philosophical split between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his chief AI scientist extends beyond timelines to Meta's core AI strategy

03.07.2025 10

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Tesla is racing to a robotaxi future. Waymo is already there

Tesla's long-promised robotaxi is raising questions about how far behind it is compared to rivals like Google’s Waymo

30.06.2025 5

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Robotaxis to nowhere

Tesla's long-promised robotaxi is raising questions about how far behind it is compared to rivals like Google’s Waymo.

28.06.2025 40

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AI data centers could need 30 times more power by 2035, Deloitte warns

While there is plenty of focus on what tech giants are spending on AI data centers this year, companies also need to think much further ahead

24.06.2025 10

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VR's killer app

Virtual reality is poised to transform the battlefield.

23.06.2025 7

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VR finally finds its killer app: war

Virtual reality is poised to transform the battlefield, as defense contractors race to put mixed reality headsets on soldiers’ heads

23.06.2025 3

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How Big Tech learned to love America's military

Silicon Valley companies are abandoning safety policies to win Pentagon contracts, turning everyday AI into weapons systems

20.06.2025 4

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AI has a huge power problem. Solving it won't be easy

As AI pushes chips to consume dramatically more electricity, data centers are racing to squeeze more computing power from every watt

19.06.2025 10

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Apple WWDC starts today. Can it catch up in the AI race?

A version of this article originally appeared in Quartz’s members-only Weekend Brief newsletter. Quartz members get access to exclusive newsletters...

09.06.2025 10

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America's housing market is cracking

A version of this article originally appeared in Quartz’s members-only Weekend Brief newsletter. Quartz members get access to exclusive newsletters...

02.06.2025 7

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The AI data center race is getting way more complicated

When Microsoft (MSFT) pulled the plug on planned data centers in Ohio last month and a Wells Fargo (WFC) report suggested Amazon (AMZN) Web Services...

28.05.2025 10

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American tourism faces a 'perfect storm'

A version of this article originally appeared in Quartz’s members-only Weekend Brief newsletter. Quartz members get access to exclusive newsletters...

26.05.2025 10

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Wearables have flopped. Can Jony Ive and OpenAI change that?

For more than a decade, Silicon Valley has been trying to convince us that the next big thing would be something you wear. The pitch was always slick:...

22.05.2025 6

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America's airport meltdown is coming at the worst possible time

A version of this article originally appeared in Quartz’s members-only Weekend Brief newsletter. Quartz members get access to exclusive newsletters...

19.05.2025 9

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Europe's startup scene sees an opening against Silicon Valley

VIENNA — Alexander Schwartz wasn’t expecting two veteran innovation investors to show up at his Klosterneuburg office this spring, asking how to...

14.05.2025 10

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Apple's brutal year keeps getting worse

A version of this article originally appeared in Quartz’s members-only Weekend Brief newsletter. Quartz members get access to exclusive newsletters...

12.05.2025 10

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What the case against Google is really about

A version of this article originally appeared in Quartz’s members-only Weekend Brief newsletter. Quartz members get access to exclusive newsletters...

05.05.2025 7

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The AI data center race is slowing down as Amazon and Microsoft catch their breath

For the past two years, tech giants have been racing to build the digital backbone of the artificial intelligence boom, spending tens of billions of...

28.04.2025 5

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BYD is coming for Tesla's lunch

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28.04.2025 30

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Luxury yacht owners are throwing scientists a lifeline

22.04.2025 10

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