The Chinese e-retailer is listing for a quarter of the $100bn at which it was once valued

America’s global effective tariff stands at 10.0%

Humanity must not entrust its lot to clever machines, the bestselling historian warns

It could take care of at least a little global warming

Whatever the company’s flaws, its critics have taken a worryingly illiberal turn

Some experts believe computers will need biological aspects to become self-aware

Developers are exaggerating their plans, just as politicians are overstating their opposition

The sound of giant tractors may replace dynamite

As stocks rise ever higher, yields have been rising across the rich world

The growing shortage is causing panic in Ukraine and elsewhere

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Oliver Morton, our planetary affairs editor, on how an unusually hot, dry summer is testing the continent’s infrastructure

Couples should be allowed to select embryos on the basis of both disease resistance and IQ

$12.5bn price tag is highest ever for an American sports team

Also very hungry, poor and repressed

When market power comes from buying power, oil importers can do better

It is time to impose law and order on the frontier

A new paper takes aim at the claim that science has become less disruptive

Pharma’s newest obsession involves mimicking the system that keeps people awake

Anshel Pfeffer, our Israel correspondent, examines why so few of the country’s former generals succeed in politics

But its approach will come with enormous costs

The latest results are promising, but not yet definitive

Looser regulations will help with pipelines—but may not boost production

America must press Binyamin Netanyahu to rein in violent settlers

Even if they don’t, they might be treated as such—to humanity’s great cost

Freedom of navigation is worth preserving

Both his supporters and detractors dehumanised the tragic fabulist

Make it stick

A rewiring of global manufacturing is under way

Lies, damned lies and stock markets

Daron Acemoglu is revered. Why?

Apologies to those who have invested in a modish workstation

Two weeks off, but how many days of relaxation?

Can past success ever be rekindled?

Five years after America’s exit, the Afghan regime is not going anywhere

Firms tasked with defusing credit crises are getting into trouble

Thank Marco Rubio, but beware the caprice of his boss

Jack Bogle’s creation has transformed markets, and involves plenty of choices

Self-interested Taiwanese politicians are making the country increasingly ungovernable. China is the only winner

Forget OPEC. The Chinese Communist Party now calls the shots

But his effort to talk bond yields lower is likely to fail

Oliver Morton, a senior editor, examines how contrails affect the climate

It wants more cash for its data—and more of people’s time

From tokenmaxxing to something more normal

Scientists are trying to figure out whether algorithms could one day wake up and feel

Some workers are going back to the farm

Stones in dinosaur stomachs may help understanding of avian evolution

A trial over the Atlantic aims to show how

But investors aren’t panicking yet

High tariffs on Chinese goods have had predictable effects

Companies from Palantir to Lockheed account for a small share of spending, but are hard to shake

Walloping the global trading system is no way to help Ukraine

Why China’s Mixue Bingcheng is serving up beer

AI founders pledge to give away hundreds of billions of dollars. How will they be spent?

The world’s biggest carry trader begins to exit its position

The city-state wants to fill a hole in its financial portfolio

High inflation, weak jobs numbers and presidential interference trouble the Federal Reserve

The chipmaker’s biggest customers want a piece of its business. It is fighting back with a $500bn deal

Startups claim they can screen embryos for everything from genetic diseases to IQ. Not everyone is convinced

These products of wildfires worsen their creators