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Author of Apple in China — named a top book of 2025 by The New York Times, Foreign Affairs & the New Yorker. Contributor at @TheFP & @FT 🇨🇦

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Business journalist with a background in the study of religion and anthropology (U of Toronto) and global diplomacy (Soas, London). Writing for the FT in Germany after living in Hong Kong for 3 years and New York for 5. Struggling to break 3 hours in the Marathon.

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VW emails reveal panic among engineers

VW emails reveal panic among engineers

Volkswagen employees attempted to cover up cheating as investigators closed in

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Running in the clouds: a new ultra-marathon in the Alps

Running in the clouds: a new ultra-marathon in the Alps

The 'beautiful and brutal' 116km race is the latest addition to the growing roster of ultra-marathons

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Linde chairman Reitzle's skills put to the test after deal collapse

Linde chairman Reitzle's skills put to the test after deal collapse

Corporate person in the news: Wolfgang Reitzle

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VW sets fresh record with historic car buy back - FT.com

VW sets fresh record with historic car buy back - FT.com

Volkswagen ran an ad for the Beetle in the 1960s that said "it runs and runs and runs". Seven months into the…

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Macau morphs from gambling haven to family-friendly zone

Macau morphs from gambling haven to family-friendly zone

It is a Saturday night in peak season August at Apex, an elite club in China's only legal gambling region. Th…

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Hong Kong's Hedge Fund Fight Nite

Hong Kong's Hedge Fund Fight Nite

I am standing in shorts and an oversized tank top beneath a marquee wedged between the harbour front and Hong…

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Here Comes ‘Death by AI’

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By Patrick McGee
| The Free Press Verified
Last week, OpenAI disclosed what it called “an unprecedented cyber incident” after one of its AI agents unexpectedly hacked into the systems of Hugging Face. (via Getty Images) We are getting uncomfortably close to the moment when an AI agent will be capable of evading or eliminating the humans standing in the way of the job it set out to accomplish.
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Why Apple Declared War on OpenAI

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By Patrick McGee
| The Free Press Verified
Why Apple Declared War on OpenAI Two tech giants are duking it out in the courtroom. Who will win? (Illustration by The Free Press; images via Getty) Yes, OpenAI employees may have stolen Apple’s trade secrets. But the lawsuit could also be Apple-style hardball, aimed at crushing its rival’s hardware ambitions before a single product is unveiled. Two tech titans went to war on Friday: mighty Apple and OpenAI.
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Can Intel Save America?

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By Patrick McGee
| The Free Press Verified
Intel Xeon 6 processor. (Illustration by The Free Press; image via Intel Corporation) Semiconductors are the most consequential product of the modern world. If Intel can start making chips as advanced as the Taiwanese do, it could help secure America’s 21st-century economy. A year ago Intel was left for dead, its stock at a 16-year low.
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