This past week saw incremental, but potentially important steps.

Alaska oil revival gains momentum as Arctic discoveries, policy shifts draw industry back

Japan gold exports hit record $25bn, likely include metal once smuggled in

Top-tier English football is a success story and important cultural export

Canadian firm weighs bid for U.K. broadband company KCom: Times

To achieve safe, cost-effective autonomy we need to see how other road users react to the vehicles

Fetishising tax avoidance in the US must end if the republic is to survive

A supertanker hauling Iraqi crude to China has left the Persian Gulf and crossed the US blockade line into the Arabian Sea, as talks continue to end the war between the US and Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Comments downplay hopes of an imminent reopening of the Strait of Hormuz

In the US, the backlash to artificial intelligence seems to be scaling almost as fast as the technology itself. Japan offers a different case study.