The Economist (North America) - 26 Jul 2025
The economics of superintelligence
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If Silicon Valley’s predictions are even close to being accurate, expect unprecedented upheaval:
Private jets
Trump’s Brazil misadventure
China’s elusive leader
Death from below
Double Bill
500 days a hostage
Hell under earth
Trainswotting
Letters
Hats off to the “doomer industrial complex”. Anthropic’s business is booming:
What if artificial intelligence made the world’s economic growth explode?
AI labs’ all-or-nothing competition leaves no time to fuss about safety,
A summary of political and business news
Humanity’s next step
Eureka all the time
Artificially incautious
Filippo Grandi on fixing asylum
A self-inflicted wound
GENIUS inspiration
Distraction tactics
Enough
A comeback for “comrade”?
Poetic justice
Mongolia’s miracle horse
Women’s-sports bars
India’s elites
Cutting food stamps
A palaver over ports
No cash in Caracas
Bangladeshi Teslas
Trump v Murdoch
Turmoil in Japan
Charlie Kirk
How satire treats Trump
America’s weapons labs
Crypto’s big bang
A year after the riots
Somalia crumbles
France and autonomy
Setback in the war on AIDS
Xiaomi’s triumph
Sweden’s secret bomb plan
The peril of pleasing
Fauja Singh, centenarian marathon man
Cha chaan teng
Geoeconomics
Statistics on 42 economies
IKEA’s trailblazing textiles
Probiotics
24/7 trading
Sin taxes
Anthropic
Magazines' golden age
Views on social unrest
South-East Asian tech
Europe’s coffee hopes
Turkey and the Kurds
How to get a pay rise
Gulf oil giants go big
Restaurant bookings
Airline pricing tricks
A rail mega-merger
Backsliding in Kyiv
Syria and Lebanon
The Detroit of EVs
Conflict in Congo
Shipping booms
Dollar damage
AI and Latin
Gaza starves
The world this week
The world this week
The economics of superintelligence
GENIUS inspiration
Enough
A self-inflicted wound
Distraction tactics
Regionalise refugee policy
In tropical climes
Don’t let AI take charge
Symposium exercise
Filippo Grandi
Artificially incautious
The economics of AGI
Eureka all day long
Death from below
Lexington: Poetic justice
Women’s-sports bars
Cutting food stamps
Trump v Murdoch
Charlie Kirk
Just because you can
Lèse-majesté
Coupon clipping
Crushing it
Slime and punishment
Dear Donald, thanks! Yours, Lula
No cash in Caracas
Bolívars not for ever
Infinite jets
Banyan: India’s priciest homes
Mongolia’s miracle horse
Another type of Tesla
Turmoil in Japan
Wheely fast
Out with the old
Neigh bother
No escape
The elusive Mr Xi
The Panama ports deal
Is “comrade” making a comeback?
Deadline ahead!
A little shamraderie
One year since the riots
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Our poll on social unrest
Bagehot: the cost of compromise
Expecting more riots
The peril of trying to please people
NO WAY OUT
The two lives of William Woods Would you pass the world's toughest exam? 500 days a hostage in Gaza
500 days a hostage
Hell under earth
Would you pass the world’s toughest exam?
The two lives of William Woods
HELL UNDER EARTH
DOUBLE BILL
DOUBLE BILL
TRAIN SWOTTING
TRAIN SWOTTING
500 DAYS A HOSTAGE
500 DAYS A HOSTAGE
Fragile and fragmenting
Sectarianism in Syria and Lebanon
Deepening catastrophe in Gaza
Uganda intervenes in Congo
The other east Congo conflict
Cross-border jitters
A deepening catastrophe
Of pensions and bombs
Charlemagne: Sin taxes
Europe’s coffee hopes
Turkey and the Kurds
Backsliding in Kyiv
Topsy-turvy relationships
Backsliding in Kyiv
Not just a big drinker
Sin and tonic
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
The Telegram: Sweden’s secret
A nuclear-armed world won’t police itself
Xiaomi the money
Schumpeter: Anthropic’s ascent
America’s railway mega-merger
South-East Asian tech darlings
A Trumpian boom for shipping
Gulf oil giants go big
Airline pricing tricks
— Bartleby is away
That sinking feeling
Going east
A sticky situation
One for the price of two
Hailing a new era
The dark horse of AI labs
The race to be China’s EV capital
Has Trump damaged the dollar?
Free exchange: Geoeconomics
Your best route to a pay rise
Buttonwood: 24/7 trading
Crypto’s big bang
Feeling green
Stop hopping
Say a little prayer
No rest for the wicked
The curvature of power
AI models can plug gaps in Latin text
On target
Well informed: Are probiotics worth it?
Listen
Deus ex machina
Do probiotics work?
Sting like the Bee
Trading restaurant reservations
World in a dish: Cha chaan teng
The golden age of magazines
IKEA’s trailblazing textiles
A taste of the high life
That’s the tea
In (and out of ) Vogue
The fine print
Economic & financial indicators
Markets
Commodities
Fauja Singh
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