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Adidas taps billionaire Nassef Sawiris for chair

Sportswear group seeks to elevate deputy chair and extends tenure of chief Bjørn Gulden to 2030

Plus very very long-term interest rates

Meta’s smart glasses; Supreme Court insanity; interactive XKCD; negative oil; western civilisation; crystals

Cristina Criddle speaks to Pat Pataranutaporn, Miranda Wolpert, Yael Schonbrun and others

Australian state of Victoria, home to companies including BHP, to enshrine remote working rights in law

Pioneer$ only

Also in this newsletter: Luxembourg pitches for EU AI leadership

Also in today’s newsletter: gold and silver flows disruption, and UK faces energy price shock

Michela Tindera and Joshua Franklin talk to Mickey Down and Konrad Kay

From Terry O’Shaughnessy, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, UK

From Nicholas Malins-Smith, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK

From Henry Ma, Manila, Philippines

From Luca Bergamaschi, Co-founding Executive Director, ECCO Think Tank, Rome, Italy

From George Lemos, Capital Finance Strategies Limited, London NW1, UK

From Timothy Bounmy, Beaverton, OR, US

From Rosa (9 months), Hannah Lovell (mother), Judith Ward (grandmother), London, UK

From Malcolm Jack, London N19, UK

Victoria Craig talks to Ian Johnston and Joe Leahy

With this US administration, the best bet is that a business deal is to be reached with Iran

Carbon capture and storage is making unexpected breakthroughs

Dubai is key shipping hub for precious metals from Africa and Europe to Asia

Almost 90 international groups back ‘certainty’ on carbon levy opposed by US

New state-backed body seeks AI breakthroughs in science, healthcare and transport

As groups watch their shares plunge, they’ve been forced to explain their portfolios and prove their assets’ worth