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Boardroom Risk Calculus Pushes Warner Bros Discovery Away from Paramount’s Hostile Overture

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SoftBank’s High-Stakes Sprint Signals a Strategic Lock-In on the Future of Artificial Intelligence: Reports

Europe’s Carmakers Still Bet on Electric Power Despite Regulatory Retreat

Court Reversal Recasts Executive Power and Shareholder Authority at Tesla

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SoftBank’s High-Stakes Sprint Signals a Strategic Lock-In on the Future of Artificial Intelligence: Reports

Court Reversal Recasts Executive Power and Shareholder Authority at Tesla

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SoftBank’s High-Stakes Sprint Signals a Strategic Lock-In on the Future of Artificial Intelligence: Reports

SoftBank’s High-Stakes Sprint Signals a Strategic Lock-In on the Future of Artificial Intelligence: Reports

Companies

SoftBank Group’s rush to fulfil its $22.5 billion funding commitment to OpenAI by year-end reflects far more than a routine capital raise. It is the clearest signal yet that SoftBank Group, under the direction of its founder Masayoshi Son, is attempting to hardwire itself into what it views as the next dominant computing platform. The speed, scale, and financial creativity behind the effort...
Court Reversal Recasts Executive Power and Shareholder Authority at Tesla

Court Reversal Recasts Executive Power and Shareholder Authority at Tesla

Companies

The decision by Delaware’s top court to reinstate Elon Musk’s 2018 compensation package marks a turning point not only for Tesla, but for the broader debate over executive pay, founder control, and the limits of judicial intervention in corporate governance. The ruling restores a deal once valued at $56 billion and now estimated at around $139 billion, transforming a legal setback into a...
Capital Floods Into Data Centers as AI Demand Outpaces Investor Confidence

Capital Floods Into Data Centers as AI Demand Outpaces Investor Confidence

Markets

The global rush to build data centers has reached a new peak, with dealmaking hitting record levels even as investors grow increasingly uneasy about artificial intelligence valuations and the financial structures supporting the boom. The contrast between surging investment volumes and rising scepticism underscores a defining tension in today’s technology markets: data centers are viewed as...
Europe’s Carmakers Still Bet on Electric Power Despite Regulatory Retreat

Europe’s Carmakers Still Bet on Electric Power Despite Regulatory Retreat

Markets

Europe’s decision to soften its planned 2035 phase-out of combustion engines has given the region’s carmakers short-term breathing space, but it has not altered the deeper forces reshaping the industry. Even as Brussels steps back from a hard deadline, the strategic, economic and competitive logic pushing Europe toward electric vehicles remains firmly in place. The result is a future that may...
Medline’s Public Market Arrival Signals a Reset for Big, Profitable IPOs

Medline’s Public Market Arrival Signals a Reset for Big, Profitable IPOs

Companies

Medline’s debut on Nasdaq following the largest initial public offering of 2025 marks more than a high-profile listing; it reflects a recalibration of what investors are willing to reward in public markets after several years of volatility, policy shocks, and uneven post-pandemic growth. Unlike many recent IPOs driven by speculative growth narratives, Medline enters the market with a profile that...
Boardroom Risk Calculus Pushes Warner Bros Discovery Away from Paramount’s Hostile Overture

Boardroom Risk Calculus Pushes Warner Bros Discovery Away from Paramount’s Hostile Overture

Companies

Warner Bros Discovery’s board decision to reject Paramount Skydance’s hostile bid was less a reflexive defense against an unsolicited approach and more a detailed judgment about risk, control, and strategic credibility at a fragile moment for the global media industry. While Paramount’s headline offer appeared financially superior on paper, the board’s response made clear that price alone was not...
Meta’s China Ad Engine and the Cost of Looking Away

Meta’s China Ad Engine and the Cost of Looking Away

Companies

Meta’s tolerance of large-scale advertising abuse linked to Chinese advertisers is not an accident of enforcement failure but the outcome of a calculated commercial trade-off. Inside the company, executives have long understood that China occupies a unique and lucrative position in Meta’s global advertising ecosystem: a market that cannot use its social platforms domestically, yet supplies an...
Equity Windfalls and Governance Trade-offs at Tesla

Equity Windfalls and Governance Trade-offs at Tesla

Companies

Tesla’s board of directors did not stumble into extraordinary wealth by accident. The more than $3 billion accumulated by a small group of directors through stock awards reflects a deliberate compensation architecture that differed sharply from prevailing norms in U.S. technology companies. While rising share prices across Big Tech lifted many boards, Tesla stood apart because of the scale,...
Broadcom’s AI Boom Hits a Wall as Margin Pressure Reignites Doubts Over Profit Payoffs

Broadcom’s AI Boom Hits a Wall as Margin Pressure Reignites Doubts Over Profit Payoffs

Companies

Broadcom’s sharp share price decline reflects a growing unease in markets that the artificial intelligence boom, while still powerful in scale, may not deliver profits as smoothly or as quickly as investors once assumed. The chipmaker’s warning that rising sales of custom AI processors are compressing margins has forced a recalibration of expectations around how lucrative the next phase of AI...
Coca-Cola Turns to Global Operator as Strategy Shifts Toward Health, Affordability and Emerging Markets

Coca-Cola Turns to Global Operator as Strategy Shifts Toward Health, Affordability and Emerging Markets

Companies

Coca-Cola’s decision to elevate Henrique Braun to the chief executive role reflects less a leadership gamble than a strategic reinforcement at a moment when the world’s largest beverage maker is recalibrating its growth engine. The company is navigating a complex transition: consumers are drinking less sugar, governments are tightening regulations, and price-sensitive households are pulling back...
Prada Turns Cultural Controversy Into Strategic Reinvention With $930 ‘Made in India’ Sandals

Prada Turns Cultural Controversy Into Strategic Reinvention With $930 ‘Made in India’ Sandals

Companies

Prada is preparing to release a limited-edition line of high-end sandals crafted in India, transforming a global backlash over cultural appropriation into a high-visibility collaboration with traditional artisans. The decision reflects a shift in how luxury brands respond to criticism, but it also underscores the fashion industry’s growing recognition that safeguarding heritage craftsmanship has...
Albanese Confronts a Digital Generation as Australia’s Youth Test Boundaries of Landmark Social Media Ban

Albanese Confronts a Digital Generation as Australia’s Youth Test Boundaries of Landmark Social Media Ban

Markets

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is defending his government’s sweeping prohibition on social media access for under-16s, even as teenagers openly showcase ways to bypass the restrictions. The measure, billed as a global first and a necessary public-health intervention, has triggered a sharp divide between policymakers, industry, parents and young people. What was intended as a...

World

Taiwan Rolls Out Universal Security Handbook as China’s Threat Deepens

Taiwan Rolls Out Universal Security Handbook as China’s Threat Deepens
Taiwan has launched an unprecedented nationwide campaign to distribute civil-defence handbooks to all households on the island, marking a significant escalation in its efforts to ready the population...

Wealthy Nations Retreat from Climate Leadership as COP30 Chief Warns of Fading Resolve

Wealthy Nations Retreat from Climate Leadership as COP30 Chief Warns of Fading Resolve
The opening of the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, has laid bare an uncomfortable truth for the global community: the industrialised world’s enthusiasm for tackling the climate emergency is...

Brazil’s Amazon ‘Time Machine’ Tests the Future of Climate as COP30 Nears

Brazil’s Amazon ‘Time Machine’ Tests the Future of Climate as COP30 Nears
Deep inside Brazil’s vast rainforest, scientists are running an unprecedented experiment designed to glimpse the Earth’s future. Using advanced atmospheric technology, researchers are turning a...

Europe’s Strategic Break-with-China: How the EU Is Rewiring Its Industrial Core to Escape Beijing’s Grip on Rare Earths

Europe’s Strategic Break-with-China: How the EU Is Rewiring Its Industrial Core to Escape Beijing’s Grip on Rare Earths
For the European Union, the dominance of China in rare earth elements has evolved from an economic inconvenience into a strategic vulnerability. These metals—vital for electric vehicles, wind...

Trump Issues Firm Warning to Russia in Lead-Up to High-Stakes Summit

Trump Issues Firm Warning to Russia in Lead-Up to High-Stakes Summit
U.S. President Donald Trump is signalling a sharpened approach toward Vladimir Putin and Moscow as the two leaders prepare to meet, putting Russia explicitly “on notice” over its actions in Ukraine....

People

Reagan’s Enduring Shadow: How an Old Conservative Ideal Still Defines and Challenges Trump’s Presidency

Reagan’s Enduring Shadow: How an Old Conservative Ideal Still Defines and Challenges Trump’s Presidency
A smiling portrait of Ronald Reagan, framed in gold, hangs behind the Resolute Desk — a silent observer of Donald Trump’s presidency. For Trump, the image is both inspiration and burden. While Reagan...

South Korean Workers Recount Ordeal After U.S. Immigration Raid on Hyundai Plant

South Korean Workers Recount Ordeal After U.S. Immigration Raid on Hyundai Plant
South Korean workers caught in the sweeping U.S. immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG battery plant in Georgia have described in vivid detail the fear, humiliation, and uncertainty they endured. Their...

Federal Judge Likely to Stand Guard Over Fed’s Independence in Cook Dispute

Federal Judge Likely to Stand Guard Over Fed’s Independence in Cook Dispute
The legal and political battle over President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook is moving into a Washington courtroom, where a federal judge is preparing to hear...

When Allies Turned Adversaries: The Dramatic Implosion of the Trump–Musk Alliance

When Allies Turned Adversaries: The Dramatic Implosion of the Trump–Musk Alliance
The alliance between former President Donald Trump and tech magnate Elon Musk—once hailed as an unlikely marriage of populist politics and Silicon Valley ambition—crumbled in a matter of days this...

Trump Declines Further Debates As Harris Emerges As Debate Winner In Polls

Trump Declines Further Debates As Harris Emerges As Debate Winner In Polls
Republican nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he would not participate in a third presidential debate against his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala...