The Economist
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Elon Musk gestures with a smile.
Lift off
The value of SpaceX rockets on its stock-market debut
Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire
Photo collage featuring South African and Brazilian singers, Danish musicians, and Polish, Korean and Japanese TV series
Music, TV and video games
Forget the World Cup. Culture is becoming more fragmented
Farewell to the monoculture
Tangled arrows bearing the EU flag and Chinese flag face off in the centre of the image
Trade trap
A trade war between the EU and China seems inevitable
Europe sees Chinese subsidies, China sees European weakness
Illustration of a key with a keyring with a computer chip that says AI on it
Free Exchange
How to share AI riches
From Donald Trump to Sam Altman, the idea of redistributing them is catching on. Does it make sense?
David Hockney poses in front of his painting The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011
The swimming pool genius
David Hockney believed in working from the heart
Britain’s boldest and most innovative painter died on June 11th, aged 88