California Management Review

Asset managers serving climate-conscious investors rely on carbon-intensity metrics to guide capital allocation within sectors, but until now have compared firms primarily on Scopes 1 and 2 emissions—direct operations and purchased energy—because that data was most available under voluntary reporting. California’s Senate Bill 253 changes that, mandating full-scope emissions...

On November 4, 2025, Amazon sued Perplexity AI. The charge: its AI agent, “Comet,” was accessing Amazon’s systems without authorization—evaluating products, comparing prices, and completing purchases on behalf of users. No banner ads were seen. No sponsored listings were clicked. No traditional purchase funnel was navigated. Amazon’s legal team called it theft under the Compu...

In a recent trial, banking giant HSBC reported that using quantum computing alongside its existing systems improved its ability to predict whether it would win a corporate bond...

Yes, the reference is to China—the “nanosecond behind” competitor in the global AI race. There is mounting evidence that increasingly supports Jensen Huang’s claim that the gap is not only closing, but closing fast. The reality is that Chinese AI is advanc...