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Trump wins the Iowa caucus 🔴 Geopolitical anxieties at Davos 🌐 Red Sea shipping crisis ⛴ Chinese electric vehicle company overtakes Tesla 🚗

Russia leaves the Black Sea grain deal 🌾 The global AI regulation challenge 🤖 The US-China space satellite race 🚀 China's domination of the electric vehicle market 🔋

The Microsoft-Activision deal 🤝 China strikes the US with tech export controls 🇨🇳 Indian iPhones brought to you by Tata Group 🇮🇳 Europe races to space with a satellite company merger 🛰️

Nvidia joins the $1 trillion club 💸 Doubt troubles the carbon removal tech sector ⚙️ Tech companies and Western firms rethink operations amidst US-China tensions 🇨🇳 The US incentivises domestic rare-earth supply and production 🇺🇸

On the Credit Suisse collapse, the chip industry in 2023, and supply chain stories as told by Apple and Barbie.

The collapse of SVB, TikTok bans, globalisation under the strain of great power competition, tech in turbulent times, and on business leaders navigating geopolitical risk.

Understanding the Big Tech layoffs, Russia's diminishing leverage in the world economy, Mexico's ban on atmospheric geoengineering experiments, and Chinese businesses challenging Western governments over national security decisions.

Seizing Russian assets could impact Western companies, #ExxonKnew, Huawei's Global South takeover, and port investments telling the future of global trade.

ESG in 2023, companies caught in the fray of geopolitics, Meta targeted with fines for ad targeting, and a documentary on the semiconductor industry.

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