The continent looks ever more reliant on Asian producers

From strikes to Trump tariffs, calamities abound

Companies are experimenting with new ways to reduce plastic waste

The fight is turning nasty

Life in an elevator

But it’s “urgent” to get to the next level, Jensen Huang tells The Economist

The first casualties of generative AI offer lessons for other businesses

Donald Trump’s promise of big tax cuts may not materialise

Taiwan’s giant chipmaker must balance demands from America, China and home

ExxonMobil’s boss wants America to stick with the Paris accord

But some companies will be hit much harder than others

Very carefully

Zippy new firms are emerging in a number of areas

With its latest operating system, it is cutting ties with Western tech

That is making Western policymakers anxious

The leading maker of electronic bidets shows the difficulties facing Japanese companies abroad

And intensify the problems of Olaf Scholz’s fractious coalition

Polarisation affects bosses as well as employees

The contest for global smartphone dominance gets interesting

The Foxconnification of electric vehicles

It reckons it can succeed where Richemont has failed

This isn’t the first time the Japanese tech investor has missed the hot new thing

Hint: not someone who says I am a good manager

They may not help much in the quest for eternal youth

A giant population turns to deliveries

Insider CEOs come with less risk—but fewer potential rewards

Working and eating do not go together

Restaurants awarded the honour are more likely to close, research finds

The ubiquity of smartphones has helped

Only drastic action can revive America’s chipmaking champion

Their grip on the economy may be starting to weaken—slowly

Assessing Berkshire Hathaway’s recent performance

The once-troubled brand is now a favourite of millennials and gen-Zs alike

It hopes its models will set the standard for open-source artificial intelligence

Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, may face prosecution in France

Tickets are no longer selling out

The matinée test

Booze, sweat and plexiglass

It hopes to succeed where others have failed

There is not much he could do to boost fossil fuels—or rein in clean energy

Donald Trump’s running-mate has a deep-rooted resentment of big business

Its woes illustrate the excesses of a lean-and-mean era in corporate America

Why there is little sign of a defence-industry bonanza in a post-peace world

The Spanish lender places brave political bets at home and abroad

Everyone from tycoons to typical middle-class families seeks shelter

Rules to make gabfests vaguely useful

As austerity hits Tinseltown, rivalries are giving way to alliances

From Prime Video to AWS, the e-empire is stitching together its disparate parts

Many are fleeing to the Gulf—never mind war next door

Hint: it wasn’t Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive

The French election threatens a remarkable commercial renaissance

The nostalgia of politicians is misplaced