Browsing: Letter from London
Christian Ulbrich’s first job involved sitting on a pod of five desks, right next to his boss. “I could consistently…
“Putting the customer at the heart of everything we do” is the boilerplate response of choice for new chief executives.…
FOMO—the fear of missing out—used to be a shorthand favorite of young people worried about not being at the right party on…
Sir Tony Blair, the former prime minister of the U.K., has argued that the AI revolution is as consequential as the industrial…
VivaTech in Paris is ten years old. In 2016, 45,000 attended the first event. This year, at least 180,000 delegates will make…
Mention of Brazil’s ‘market reserve policy’ is still capable of sending a chill through technology enthusiasts of a certain age. Introduced in the 1970s, when the country…
When the supply of toilet paper started running out back in 2013, the Venezuelan authorities came up with a novel explanation. “95% of people eat…
By design, central banks are cautious. Protecting a nation’s currency and financial stability are serious matters, ill-suited to risk-taking and chancy…
When Demis Hassabis was 6 years old, he remembers his father giving him the age-old reassurance prompt used every day…
There was a simple narrative about Rishi Sunak when he was defeated in the U.K. general election of 2024. The…