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Franchising has quietly made countless Americans rich

Why you should (almost) always look on the bright side of life

The strange fate of Hard Rock Cafe

The benefits—and dangers—of optimism

How Star Wars went from space opera to soap opera

Can an Italian company disrupt Germany’s broken railway industry?

A new mega-deal shows how AI has turned utilities into hot property

Google is dethroning OpenAI as the king of consumer AI

Chanel’s creative revival is paying off

AI super-apps are remaking China’s internet

The strange Japanese companies minting money from AI

Samsung has staged a stunning comeback

Samsung Electronics has staged a stunning comeback

Introducing “Velocity pivot”

Companies are making big bucks from immigration crackdowns

Big tech’s fat profits conceal unsettling cashflows

Big tech is sacrificing its cashflows to prop up the AI boom

The war between businesses and hackers enters a perilous new phase

The war between businesses and hackers enters a perilous new era

Can Mukesh Ambani pull off his biggest gamble yet?

America faces another grocery-price shock

The pros and cons of commuting

Can a beauty mega-deal save Estée Lauder?

Airlines are grappling with dwindling supplies of jet fuel

Only one of Berkshire Hathaway and SoftBank can survive

Not all oil giants are prospering from the Iran war

Wanted: a new tech-industry writer

Global carmakers desperately want to be more Chinese

The remarkable revival of eBay

How a mega-deal will transform the lift industry

AI and the danger of cognitive surrender

Elon Musk and Sam Altman bring their rivalry to court

SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic are already public companies

Swashbuckling oil-services firms are preparing for a boom

Why DeepSeek’s sequel failed to impress

Why DeepSeek’s new model has been met with a shrug

Coca-Cola is trouncing Pepsi. Can the underdog turn things around?

The AI rush is hitting a bottleneck

AI is confronting a supply-chain crunch