Most football clubs treat their identity like a checklist. Get a stadium, get a kit deal, get some celebrities in the stands, get a fashion collab. Como 1907 did it the other way round.

Elon Musk says AI will surpass the combined intelligence of humanity within five years and make saving for retirement pointless. Geoffrey Hinton believes AI could replace most routine intellectual work. Both predictions deserve scrutiny.

Businesses are auto-rejecting candidates for job hopping. Those same businesses made the redundancies that caused it. Right now, across the UK, ATS systems are quietly filtering out CVs that show multiple short tenures.

UK recruitment agency vacancies have fallen 22.9% in a year. Direct employer vacancies have risen 2.5%. Employers are increasingly hiring without using agencies.

Everyone keeps talking about AI replacing recruiters. I think we're watching something far more dangerous. Companies are replacing thinking. - Job descriptions are being written by AI. - CVs are being written by AI. - Cover letters are being written by AI.

Gianni Infantino's $20 billion World Cup investment plan has run into major resistance. UEFA's 55 member associations have unanimously backed a boycott threat, while CONCACAF and the Asian Football Confederation have also opposed the proposal.

BMW, Mercedes, Volkswagen and Audi all reported earnings within days of each other. Everyone pointed to the same problem: China.

Germany is losing nearly 200,000 industrial jobs a year. Yet unemployment has barely moved. The reason is simple: this is not primarily a layoff crisis. It is a hiring collapse.

FIFA wants to sell a minority stake in the commercial rights to the World Cup. UEFA's response was blunt: "It is not FIFA's to sell."

Michael Bloomberg is 84. He owns 88% of Bloomberg LP. He has quietly begun transferring personal shares into his charitable foundation while bankers reportedly hold preliminary discussions about the company's future.

Microsoft offered voluntary retirement to employees whose age plus years of service totalled 70. A 47-year-old who joined straight after university qualified. She had never seriously considered retirement until the offer arrived.

Visa has beaten Wall Street expectations. At the same time, it is reportedly cutting around 2,600 jobs, roughly 7% of its workforce. Strong financial results are no longer a guarantee of job security.

Automotive freelance projects have collapsed by 64% since 2022. At the same time, demand for AI skills in the sector has nearly tripled. The industry's skills mix is changing faster than its workforce.

Monday.com is cutting around 20% of its global workforce, approximately 630 employees. The company says the layoffs are not primarily about AI replacing jobs, but about reorganising around an AI-driven strategy.

Porsche's profit margin has fallen from around 15% to under 8% in a year. Its response: cut 9,000 jobs while guaranteeing no compulsory redundancies until the end of 2035.

German business confidence has risen for the third consecutive month, beating every economist's forecast. Just two days earlier, another survey showed a third of companies delaying investment because of energy costs. Both are true.

A third of German companies have postponed investment because of energy costs. Nearly one in five has already moved production abroad or is planning to.

SpaceX has lost more than $1 trillion in market value since its peak. The stock is now trading below its IPO price. Wall Street analysts are still overwhelmingly telling clients to buy.

Google is worth around $4 trillion. Its market value has quadrupled in six years. Yet 4,500 employees have just signed a petition asking for stronger protections during layoffs.

SpaceX employees became paper millionaires after its IPO. Blue Origin employees are getting a new equity plan. The difference is who controls when the money becomes real.

Official UK statistics suggest business creation is slowing. Stripe’s own payments data suggests the opposite. The gap may be that the government simply cannot see a growing part of the economy.

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A federal judge has approved the largest known copyright settlement in history: $1.5 billion, or roughly $3,000 for each of more than 482,000 books Anthropic used to train Claude.

Amazon has laid off employees from the team building its AI. Not warehouse workers AI is supposedly replacing, but researchers working on Amazon’s own AGI models.

80% of recent graduates believe AI is shrinking entry-level hiring. That is 21 percentage points higher than mid-career professionals. The people with the least experience of the labour market are the most convinced it is changing.

Stripe is trying to buy two companies at once. One was valued at $1.3 billion two months ago and could now sell for around $10 billion.

The EU has fined Google €890 million. Alphabet earns that much revenue in roughly 18 hours. Donald Trump is threatening retaliatory tariffs anyway.

We spent the past week in Germany. And we did not come home empty-handed. Sometimes a short trip reconnects you with a part of your life that may feel distant, but has never truly left you. For me, Germany is not only the country I was born in.

Mira Murati knew OpenAI’s technology better than almost anyone. When she built her own model, she chose Chinese architecture instead.

Apple has retaken the title of the world’s most valuable company. Not because Apple surged dramatically, but because Nvidia fell.