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- A tale of two economies: Why IKEA’s strategy is the antidote to the middle-class margin collapse
As America’s middle class faces shrinking purchasing power, IKEA offers a counterintuitive corporate playbook: cut prices, localize supply chains, invest in energy and retrain workers to build durable demand.
- Lutnick Shares Video Of Collapsing Kennedy Center Ceiling Amid Push To Shut Building And Add Trump’s Name
The Commerce Secretary shared clips and photos highlighting the damage to the Kennedy Center’s structure amid a push to add Trump’s name to the building for fundraising.
- Can Index Turn Your Memories Into A Bespoke Fragrance?
Discover how London fragrance house Index turns personal memories into a bespoke fragrance using conversation, perfumery and technology at its Columbia Road pop-up.
- China may have a green energy overcapacity problem. Experts think AI can help solve it
Production in China's clean energy sector has grown so much that there’s more energy infrastructure than the market needs.
- Kate Dohaney says AI demands a different type of leadership—“I’m not a CEO sitting back saying cut, cut, cut.”
How company leaders respond to the AI wave–and take their colleagues with them—is one of the most important issues for C-Suite leaders as they contemplate the year ahead.
Technology
- What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off
When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of business and technical uncertainties. So she started with what she calls a “remarkable fact” that is not in question: A handful of so-called…
- Volvo increases the batteries for 2028 XC60 and XC90 plug-in refresh
The refreshed Volvos also get new infotainment systems with Gemini onboard.
- For the first time, the US military confirms it has deployed weapons in orbit
"The United States now has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the joint force."
- RFK Jr. headlines sold-out anti-vaccine conference alongside Andrew Wakefield
The event is hosted by Kennedy's anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense.
- Rocket Lab is seeing red about NASA's decision on a Mars spacecraft
"NASA’s award decision appears to be inconsistent with the eligibility criteria."
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