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OpenAI chief Sam Altman: ‘This is genius-level intelligence’

Sam Altman’s escape from the Silicon Valley pack is a sprawling farm at the end of a road that snakes through the vine-swept......

Is Japanese anime the next global IP gold mine?

For a few days in March, anime and manga broke the internet. Wide-eyed, cute-looking characters spread like wildfire across......

Has Japan been an ant or a grasshopper?

In Aesop’s fable, the grasshopper spends its summer singing, dancing and consuming. The assiduous ant toils away storing......

The activist winding up Omega-maker Swatch

Welcome to Due Diligence, your briefing on dealmaking, private equity and corporate finance. This article is an on-site version......

Joseph Nye, who coined the term ‘soft power’, dies aged 88

Joseph Nye, one of the world’s foremost thinkers and practitioners in the field of international relations and coiner of......

Trump’s sovereign wealth fund idea is born of envy rather than sense

The writer is a longtime Silicon Valley investorPresident Donald Trump, who dug a deep hole for the US with his tariffs,......

The latest must-have in the super-prime market? A ‘longevity room’

Every other day or so for the past 16 months, when Gary Shepherd has woken up in his Surrey home, he has padded slowly,......

China cuts key interest rate to 1.4%

China has said it will cut its benchmark interest rate and reduce the amount of money banks need to hold as reserves, offering......

Mark Carney tells Donald Trump Canada is ‘not for sale’

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told Donald Trump that his country was “not for sale” as he rejected the US president......

Doing it for the kids: the residences being supercharged for teens

“Everything is about the experience,” says Kevin Blary, fresh from his morning beach run and fizzing with energy and positivity......