Futures for the S&P 500 were flat after Jerome Powell cooled market expectations of a December cut and the U.S. agreed to cut tariffs on Chinese goods.

Even the best intention to grow through expansion can slip into extraction if compensation isn’t fair. An ethical compensation strategy is the foundation of responsible expansion. Without it, global hiring risks perpetuating inequality or undervaluing local talent.

President Trump has announced plans to begin testing nuclear weapons, raising fears of a new arms race as Russia and China respond with warnings.

U.S. futures for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were higher with more big-tech earnings due and as Trump continues his tour of Asia.

The latest iPhones have seen "a tremendous response" across the globe, said Apple boss Tim Cook as the tech giant released its latest financial results. The firm unveiled its thinnest iPhone, the Air, in September, along with upgraded iPhone 17 models, proving a bumper crop for the firm.

Progress in energy and other areas has damped some of the pessimism around global warming. In 2015, the UN predicted temperatures would rise by 4° C compared to pre-industrial levels by 2100. It now projects a rise of 2.6° C, if climate policies are followed through.

Tetsu Fujimura’s keynote talk at the Tokyo market offered a convincing argument that Japanese IP is becoming one of the country’s core industries.

Despite this danger, superintelligence remains the explicit goal of leading AI companies: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, xAI, DeepSeek. And given the skyrocketing valuation of these companies, they are not about to stop by themselves.