The trial that opened this week in New Mexico is the first full-merits proceeding by a US state attorney general to allege specific child-safety failures across Meta Platforms' core social products and to seek structural injunctive relief that would alter how those products are …
The trial that opened this week in a California courtroom is, on the surface, a contractual and structural dispute between Elon Musk and OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company he co-founded and later left. In substance, it is the most consequential corporate-governance case the AI …
The world's largest publicly listed oil and gas companies have used their first-quarter earnings cycle to deliver an unusually coordinated warning. In separate but conceptually aligned remarks, executives from Shell (NYSE:SHEL), BP (NYSE:BP), ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM), Chevron (NYSE:CVX) and TotalEnergies (NYSE:TTE) have argued that even …
Cross-asset prices in early May 2026 carry the signature of a market that already believes a Middle East de-escalation is the central case. Brent futures sit closer to the lower end of their range, the gold rally has paused, defence stocks have lagged the …
A familiar paradox is back at the centre of global markets this spring. Oil tankers are taking longer routes around the Arabian Peninsula, war-risk insurance premia in the Gulf have widened, and policymakers in Washington, Brussels and Riyadh are once again on near-permanent shuttle …
President Donald Trump's second-term administration is reviewing a fresh Iran peace framework while pointedly declining to take the option of additional military strikes off the table — a posture that has set off a familiar but high-stakes recalibration across global asset markets. For institutional …
The co-CEO structure, long treated by governance specialists as an awkward exception to the unitary chief executive model, is having an unexpected moment. A growing list of listed companies — spanning enterprise software, asset management, advertising and consumer goods — has either appointed or …
A leading institutional limited partner association has issued its sharpest warning yet on the rapid expansion of so-called 'conflict vehicles' — the continuation funds and GP-led secondaries through which private equity managers move trophy assets from old funds into new vehicles they continue to …
Clean energy equities have staged their sharpest rally in more than two years as the escalating conflict involving Iran reframes the global energy security debate and pushes Western governments to accelerate domestic renewable, grid and storage deployment. The S&P Global Clean Energy Index has …
A growing coalition of artificial intelligence start-ups is publicly challenging Apple over App Store rules that they say make it commercially unworkable to ship 'vibe coding' tools — the new generation of consumer-grade applications that let non-developers describe what they want in natural language …