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The economics of superintelligence
The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon
Leaders
Humanity’s next step
The economics of superintelligence
If Silicon Valley’s predictions are even close to being accurate, expect unprecedented upheaval
A large golden coin with a dollar sign on its face, radiating light like the sun
GENIUS inspiration
The world should follow Trump’s lead on stablecoins
With the right rules, innovation could flourish
A mother holds her malnourished toddler in Gaza
The Middle East
The continuation of the war in Gaza disgraces Israel
It no longer has a military justification
President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to the press
A self-inflicted wound
Volodymyr Zelensky has made a strategic blunder
A new law jeopardises Ukraine’s progress against corruption—and erodes the Western support it needs
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a press conference
Presidential ambitions
Peace in Turkey must not become a smokescreen for repression
A deal with the Kurds is welcome. Erdogan’s authoritarianism is not
Letters
A selection of correspondence
What many in the asylum and migration policy world think
By Invitation
Portrait of the author
By Invitation
Asylum systems should be fixed, not scrapped, says the UN’s refugee boss
Briefing
A superintelligent robot towers over a human
Artificially incautious
AI labs’ all-or-nothing race leaves no time to fuss about safety
They have ideas about how to restrain wayward models, but worry that doing so will disadvantage them
A timeline of technological evolution, from a simple cart to superintelligent robot
Eureka all day long
What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode?
Markets for goods, services and financial assets, as well as labour, would be upended
Asia
An Indian man sat in a private jet drinking champagne
When first class isn’t good enough
The new private jet pecking order
Wheely fast
“Bangla Teslas” give Musk a run for his money
Japan’s political kaleidoscope
Ishiba Shigeru’s premiership is crumbling
Neigh bother
Conservationists have rescued the world’s last truly wild horse
Banyan
“Gated communities” are flourishing in India
China
President Xi Jinping looms over smaller figures standing at a lectern
Chairman of Everything
Xi Jinping is growing more elusive
Ports and geopolitics
The looming deadline for the Panama Canal ports deal
Shamraderie
“Comrade” is making a comeback in China
United States
Death from below
Underground with America’s nuclear-missile crews
Just because you can
The year of the women’s-sports bar
Lèse-majesté in America
Epstein’s ghost haunts the Trump-Murdoch alliance
Coupon clipping
Cuts to food stamps are about to hit in America
Weekend profile
Charlie Kirk, pied piper of the American right
Lexington
A little poetic justice for Donald Trump
The Americas
A collage of images of Donald Trump, Eduardo Bolsonaro, Jair Bolsonaro, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Alexandre de Moraes
Dear Donald, thanks! Yours, Lula
Trump’s astonishing battering of Brazil
Cash no longer rules Caracas
A new paradise for crypto
Middle East & Africa
A soldier in front of the ruins of the Italian-built Mogadishu cathedral
Fragile and fragmenting
Somalia’s state-building project is in tatters
The other east Congo conflict
Ugandan intervention in Congo risks stoking ethnic violence
Cross-border jitters
A bloody week in Syria may have ripple effects in Lebanon
A deepening catastrophe
As Gaza starves, Israel fights on
Europe
President Emmanuel Macron visits the Paris air show
French defence spending
Macron was right about strategic autonomy
Topsy-turvy relationships in Turkey
Kurds and Turks are closer than ever to peace
Backsliding in Kyiv
Outrage in Ukraine as the government attacks anti-corruption watchdogs
European coffee
Could Europe be the next big coffee producer?
Charlemagne
Cigarettes, booze and petrol bankroll Europe’s welfare empire
Britain
A far-right protest in Sunderland, a city in England
The lingering effects of disorder
A year after Britain’s riots, things have deteriorated
Polling on Britain’s social unrest
Seven in ten Britons expect more riots
A striking shift
Why are British doctors so radical?
Ofswatted
Britain’s water watchdog is to be put down
LIBORated
Vindication for two bankers. Questions for Britain’s legal system
Crime and no punishment
Why Britain’s police hardly solve any crimes
Bagehot
The peril of trying to please people
International
A woman and child walk through a corridor at the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute in Johannesburg
Fighting HIV
Rethinking the war on AIDS
The Telegram
The surprising lessons of a secret cold-war nuclear programme
1843
South Africa
Dying for gold: who killed the miners of Buffelsfontein?
Identity theft
One William Woods was telling the truth. The other was living his life
India
Would you pass the world’s toughest exam?
War
I spent 500 days as a hostage of Hamas
Business
A Swiss Army-style knife with the logo of Xiaomi on it and products of the company coming out of it.
Xiaomi the money
China’s smartphone champion has triumphed where Apple failed
That sinking feeling
Trump’s tariff mayhem has been a blessing for shippers
Going east
The rail mega-merger that could transform American supply chains
A sticky situation
The Gulf’s oil giants risk becoming sprawling conglomerates
One for the price of two
Airlines’ favourite new pricing trick
Hailing a new era
Can Grab and GoTo forge a South-East Asian tech champion?
Schumpeter
The dark horse of AI labs
Finance & economics
A comic-style explosion of coins and dollar signs bursts from a cloud against a red background.
Beyond the memes
Crypto’s big bang will revolutionise finance
Feeling green
Has Trump damaged the dollar?
Stop hopping
Want higher pay? Stay in your job
Say a little prayer
Where will be the Detroit of electric vehicles?
Buttonwood
Why 24/7 trading is a bad idea
Free exchange
What economics can teach foreign-policy types
Science & technology
The National Ignition Facility’s preamplifier module increases the laser energy as it travels to the Target Chamber
Bomb squads
Inside the top-secret labs that build America’s nuclear weapons
Deus ex machina
Fragmentary Latin inscriptions can be completed with AI
Well informed
Do probiotics work?
Culture
The illustration shows Donald Trump having tomatoes thrown at him
Sting like the Bee
How satire is adapting to the second coming of Donald Trump
A taste of the high life
How much would you pay to nab a table at a swanky restaurant?
World in a dish
Cha chaan teng, Hong Kong’s quirky fusion cafés, are going global
In (and out) of Vogue
Booze, bills and $500,000 photoshoots: the golden age of magazines
Interior design
IKEA’s prints have transformed how homes everywhere look
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Fauja Singh beside a running track before a marathon in Toronto, Canada
Sikh Superman
Fauja Singh took up running somewhat late in life
