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Free tempura toppings and golf are luring retail investors to the country’s biggest IPO since 2018. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This year's $45 million auction price for a Stegosauraus skeleton was a sign of the times. Fossils are emerging as a new asset class. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The lie-flat generation is choosing self-care over luxury goods and extra gap years over poorly paid entry-level jobs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A first-of-its-kind insurance program bought time to shore up flood defenses, but exclusive data shows that isn’t happening quickly enough.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

BYD is flooding markets with affordable electric cars—while the US is doing everything it can to keep the booming Chinese brand out. By Gabrielle Coppola and Danny LeeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Scientists are developing a vaccine against fentanyl with the potential to chart a new course in the drug epidemic.  By Robert Langreth and Lizette ChapmanSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How Starbucks became the colorful, heavily sweetened, extremely Instagrammable hangout for tweens and teens. By Deena Shanker and Daniela SirtoriSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What can a trademark lawsuit tell us about the ­future of artificial intelligence—and about what makes winners and losers in Silicon Valley?  By Evan RatliffSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Biden’s FTC chair has toughened merger oversight, taken on noncompetes and made the donor class crazy. Here’s where she’s headed next—if she gets the chance.  By Josh Eidelson and Max ChafkinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How a card-playing Siberian AI outsmarted the world’s brightest researchers and raked in millions. By Kit ChellelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.