Meta founder’s antitrust defence rests on showing that TikTok is rapidly expanding in his main market

Artificial intelligence groups are releasing models for computer programming that are reshaping coding jobs

The long goodbye to the US-led world order means leaders must tread carefully

Plan alarms farmers and other exporters while Beijing warns of higher shipping costs and supply chain disruption

MP Materials has been sending concentrates to Chinese partner as it races to expand in US

US secretary of state’s warning came hours before JD Vance expressed optimism a breakthrough was close

Buyers and sellers at Canton trade fair search for ways to evade levies as goods pile up in warehouses

Standstill shows how Sino-American trade war has spilled into energy sector

Taxing the rich is a tantalising prospect for the cash-strapped UK government — but imposing a levy that is both fair and effective is fraught with difficulty

Nvidia has become a symbol of the looming business nightmare unleashed by Donald Trump

Tariffs and threat of new duties on chips and computing infrastructure could frustrate American ambitions to lead artificial intelligence race

Enforcement resources directed at gangs at the top rather than consumers who flout law

In the US president’s vision of post-liberal global disorder the weak should always surrender to the strong, writes the historian, philosopher and author

Lawyers advise wealthy clients that HMRC could use membership as evidence of strong ties to Britain

US president raises hopes of breakthrough while meeting Italy’s leader Giorgia Meloni in Washington

Officials say memo was signed ‘virtually’ and hope to finalise a full economic accord by the end of next week

Ninety-year-old precedent known as Humphrey’s Executor is crucial guardrail protecting US central bank’s independence

Streaming service’s shares gain as earnings beat Wall Street’s forecasts

Move comes as US government escalates attacks on country’s universities

Satellite company linked to People’s Liberation Army has supplied images to Iran-backed group in Yemen, say officials

Government stepped in to take control of struggling company but is keen to attract private sector investment

Federal court’s decision heightens the risks that Silicon Valley behemoth will need to sell assets

Concerns that sensors in electric vehicles could be used to gather intelligence

Growth and inflation set to slow as central bankers prepare for tariff impact

Kristalina Georgieva warns that Donald Trump’s tariff ‘reboot’ threatens to raise prices and play havoc with markets

Progress in ‘tariff diplomacy’ will determine level of danger for economy, says Jonathan Gray

US president lashes out at head of central bank, saying his ‘termination cannot come fast enough’

Europe outdoes the US on the key metrics of a good 21st-century life

Meetings with Chinese vice-premier and DeepSeek founder come after US clamps down on chipmaker’s sales to China

Maker of Birkin bags reports slower growth than expected as sector braces for impact of trade war

Lawmakers say the Chinese AI group is a ‘profound threat’ to national security

First-in-queue negotiations closely watched for signs of US strategy

New markets could be opening up — even if they are 124 light years away

Donald Trump’s trade war is forcing investors to confront the possibility that the dominance of the US currency might fade — or even end

Tariff conflict arises out of the collision course between two very different political mindsets

Experts view sharp rises in share price and turnover of Unusual Machines and Dominari as ‘clearly unusual’

Swiss lender’s market capitalisation has been hit harder by US tariffs than Spanish rival

The assault on America’s most venerable university is at the centre of the White House’s culture war

Distant planet is covered with an ocean that may be teeming with microbial activity

‘RapidDestroyer’ uses a high-power radio frequency to fry systems at a distance