Nvidia is synonymous with the AI boom. Insatiable global demand for its chips has made it the world’s most valuable company, worth some $5.5trn. Next year it may also become the most profitable, generating perhaps $250bn in net income.

But critics think…

It is woefully short of the resources and international help to cope with them

The chipmaker’s enormous bets are how capitalism is supposed to work

When the Nvidia boss returns to his native Taiwan, things get a little weird

But will its loans prove sound?

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The mountain of debt funding their expansion is growing rapidly

Nothing good, if recent months are anything to go by

Violent crime is falling fastest in cities like London. It’s the counties you should worry about

The performer and champion of traditional opera died on August 11th, aged 97

It takes more than huge amounts of money to disrupt a game

His father was loved by royalists and republicans alike

A backlash fuelled by misinformation and misunderstanding

It faces the prospect of a worse despot or a messy power struggle

Sadiq Khan has mainstreamed a public-health approach that was previously fringe

The life of a heroine

A less sexist world would be much richer

There are promising signs

But Kevin Warsh has bought himself time

A by-election will test whether the prime minister is more than just a northern phenomenon