China is racing towards a robotic future

Independence takes root in a place where it was once absurd

Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s boss, is sounding the alarm on his lab’s latest model. Mythos, which he says is too dangerous to make widely available, has reportedly found severe vulnerabilities in “every major operating system and web browser”—including one flaw…

We assess America’s democratic defences

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

His renown is an artefact of a febrile time

But his methods could prove damaging

Despite some breathless optimism, the military strongman is unlikely to deliver deeper change

Fitting literary allusions are out. Jarring clips from Hollywood movies are in

American unreliability is creating conditions for new alliances of convenience

Seventy years after the Suez crisis, the Middle East brings a new reckoning

A new biography traces the life and career of a trailblazing novelist

Britain’s and America’s tiff has gone public. Donald Trump complained that America’s ally was “not there” when it needed help. Keir Starmer was “fed up” with Britons suffering the consequences of war in Iran. As the two countries have grown apart, ordinary…

The emerging-markets fund manager died on April 15th, aged 89

Will it work for his successor?