Business

Grid unlock
Can Europe’s power grid cope with the green transition?
The boss of Germany’s biggest grid operator sure hopes so

A medical gold rush
Pharma’s big push for a new generation of obesity drugs
Rivals to Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are piling in

Bartleby
What if Hollywood blockbusters were remade as workplace dramas?
Putting the office into box office

Exit the dragon
Ties between foreign businesses and China go from bad to worse
Travel and investment are shockingly depressed

Cranes, drains and automobiles
Will the auto workers’ strike jeopardise Joe Biden’s manufacturing boom?
A report from the front line of America’s industrial revival

The last mogul
Rupert Murdoch isn’t going anywhere just yet
As “chairman emeritus” the Fox and News Corp boss will still wield plenty of clout

Missile stockpiles
Big pharma can’t get enough of one class of cancer drugs
A spate of dealmaking suggests high expectations for antibody-drug conjugates

Emissionary zeal
California cracks down on carbon
It is not just attacking big oil. Big everything is in the line of fire

Bartleby
Why it is a bad idea for managers to attempt to engineer office friendships
Friends make employees more engaged. That’s no reason for companies to get involved

Can Falcon soar?
Abu Dhabi throws a surprise challenger into the AI race
It has released the world’s most powerful open-source model, and will soon launch an AI company