Amazon cloud and ads units offset flat e-commerce – BBC News
Amazon’s core e-commerce business may be struggling – but the profit-making parts of its business are delivering. Online sales were flat in the first three
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Is mining set for a new wave of mega-mergers? – The Economist
The defining deal of the mining industry’s last merger wave never happened. BHP Billiton’s audacious $150bn bid in 2008 for a rival, Rio Tinto, which
Is Artificial Intelligence Going to Replace Us All? (by Hayk Khekoyan)
Nowadays it seems borderline impossible to spend even a few hours without coming across the subject of “Artificial Intelligence”. There is just way too much
Will the extraordinary boom in luxury goods ever end?
Sharon Wong had decided she had earned a little indulgence as she browsed at Louis Vuitton in La Samaritaine department store, one of Paris’s marquee
PODCAST: Employers Trying New Ways To Push Workers Back To The Office
Bosses have tried many different tactics to get employees back into the office. Nationally, a number of offices remain sparsely populated, particularly on Mondays and
Banking Problems May Be Tip of Debt Iceberg – WSJ
The biggest question facing the economy lately has been: How bad will the banking turmoil be? Though two U.S. banks failed a month ago, and
ECB Wakes Up to Greedflation as Key Culprit in Price Struggle – Bloomberg
The European Central Bank is catching up to an inflation risk that’s proving far more powerful than the wage-price spiral that policymakers have been worrying
Watch an AI Learn to Write by Reading Nothing but Jane Austen – The New York Times
The core of an artificial intelligence program like ChatGPT is something called a large language model: an algorithm that mimics the form of written language.
US companies in distress turn to debt exchanges to dodge bankruptcy – The Financial Times
Distressed US companies are increasingly resorting to debt restructurings to avoid expensive bankruptcy proceedings, but many borrowers ultimately end up in court anyway — with
Meta stock jumps after company reports first revenue growth in nearly a year – CNN
Facebook-parent Meta on Wednesday reported that it grew sales by 3% during the first three months of the year, reversing a trend of three consecutive