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Record cocoa prices leave a bitter aftertaste for chocolatiers

Financial Times: Investors inevitably worry that consumers will buy less.

Wall Street turns to ‘solar grazing’ sheep in push to go green

Financial Times: Big business teams up with farmers to trim around solar panels.

Opinion: Do kids really need to do homework?

Financial Times opinion: Poland's decision to ban it has fuelled a culture war.

Martin Wolf: The tree of debt must stop growing

Financial Times: Large-scale government borrowing is looking more and more problematic.

OpenAI and Meta ready new AI models capable of ‘reasoning’

Financial Times: Reasoning and planning are key steps towards human-level cognition.

Scams: People trust banks more than family to give advice

Hackers are freaking some people out more than climate change, one cyber agency says.

WeightWatchers faces an era when weight loss comes in a syringe

Financial Times: WW faces challenge of adapting to the rise of anti-obesity injections.

Opinion: Why we need more banks, not bigger ones

OPINION: And how Kiwibank is ideally placed to lead this change.

Elon Musk predicts AI will overtake human intelligence next year

Financial Times: Tesla chief says infrastructure must keep up with technology’s demands.

Ant Group embarks on global expansion without Jack Ma

Financial Times: After years of lying low, Ant is embarking on a global expansion drive.

Tesla scouts sites for US$3 billion India car plant in boost for Modi

Financial Times: Proposed investment by Elon Musk’s company comes ahead of elections.

Bermuda-based firm bids for second bite of NZ life insurance pie

Will the Reserve Bank and ComCom approve the sale of Asteron Life?

NZ faces $1 trillion bill for infrastructure, say ASB economists

The country’s population could be up to two million people higher in 30 years' time.

'Silver lining' of immigration: New house consents plummet, what might change that?

'For every three people coming into New Zealand, we need a new house.' - Mike Blackburn.

Google considers charging for AI-powered search in big change to business model

Financial Times: Would be first core product put behind a paywall.

Chairman says Federal Reserve’s inflation fight is ‘not done’

Financial Times: 'We face risks on both sides.'

Tug-of-war under way over how open banking is rolled out

Fintechs accuse banks of putting unreasonable conditions around data sharing.

Biggest US public pension plan hires former NZ Super Fund executive as boss

Financial Times: Stephen Gilmore’s appointment to $827b fund ends seven-month vacancy.