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Children’s cute job hopes look unattainable, but they are still worth encouraging

Children’s cute job hopes look unattainable, but they are still worth encouraging

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Changes at the Australian Securities Exchange are the latest sign of a global rollback of diversity policies

Apple is suing OpenAI for alleged theft but Silicon Valley is founded on the exchange of ideas

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Incentives to use new tools are changing as costs start to hit home

Carmaker will have to cultivate capacity to improvise as it navigates the profound uncertainty it faces

Instant summaries sound the death knell for the bullet-point books that prey on our insecurities

Port Vale football club has just been relegated, but its owner says: you win or you learn

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Club president Florentino Pérez’s aim of bringing in outside investors is high risk

Ferrari Luce’s launch caused more heat than light but has lessons for incumbents

Ordinary investors can at last bet directly on AI’s potential — with caveats

Sophia Smith Galer’s moving book is a rallying call to revive minority tongues amid increasing globalisation

The UK institution, under the first new operator since its launch, is battling falling sales and new rivals

Author of the start-up bible has turned his attention to corrupting influences at the heart of contemporary capitalism

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From the inspection towers of 19th-century factories to the data architecture of Amazon warehouses, Henry Snow casts those who surveil workers as capitalism’s villains

Humans must get used to living and working with the quirks of machine-written text

New AI tools help chairs and directors with prep and research but are unlikely to be granted a vote

Boards should heed the lessons of the last record surge in big M&A in 2015

Many executives will be tempted by Meta’s plans for AI version of Mark Zuckerberg with interest

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