Der Autobauer Mercedes-Benz hat wegen Problemen in den Lieferketten und Modellwechseln zum Jahresstart schwächer abgeschnitten als erwartet. Der Umsatz im ersten Quartal ging um 4,4 Prozent auf 35,9 Milliarden Euro zurück. Das Ergebnis vor Zinsen und Steuern sackte sogar um knapp 30 Prozent auf 3,86 Milliarden Euro ab.

In the wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East, new, autonomous weapons are being used. Our Inside Geneva podcast asks whether we’re losing the race to control them – and the artificial intelligence systems that run them.    “Autonomous weapons systems raise significant moral, ethical, and legal problems challenging human control over the use of force and handing over life-and-death decision-making to machines,” says Sai Bourothu, specialist in automated...

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Zwischen Januar und März legte der Umsatz bei Logitech erstmals seit längerem wieder zu. Vor allem den Gewinn konnte der Hersteller von Computerzubehör markant verbessern und damit die Analysten positiv überraschen.

Das Zürcher Fintech-Unternehmen Gentwo hat einen Chief Financial Officer gefunden. Derzeit hatte ad interim Co-Founder Patrick Loepfe die Funktion inne.

Das Schweizer Pensionskassen-Geschäft ist in Bewegung – auch in der Beratung. Die Versicherung Vaudoise festigt hier die Position mit einem Zukauf.

The ideal of individual liberty is perennially under attack not only from socialists, as one might logically expect, but also from conservatives who regard individualism as a form of selfishness. The ordinary meaning of selfishness is “caring only about what you want or need without any thought for the needs or wishes of other people,” and many conservatives see this as a major contributing factor in social decline. The conservative British journalist Nick Timothy...