Google wasn’t first to make a splash with generative artificial intelligence (that was OpenAI), and it doesn’t put on the slickest events in Silicon Valley (still Apple). But it is still both big and innovative enough to grab terrain from its rivals, and is becoming the leader in the market for consumer AI.

Nitrocellulose can be used to make paints and lacquer, or the accelerant in tank shells and rockets. It is one of many products China sells in great quantities to Russia, while denying that it is aiding the Russian war in Ukraine. Find out what China sells under the “dual-use” ruse.

And how much is chaotic Trumpian economic policy costing America? We’ve put a figure on the “MAGA tax”, and our editors will discuss it tonight on The Insider at 6pm London time (1pm on America’s east coast).