Is the United States ready for “private techquity”? That’s the name a consulting company gave to the adoption of technology in private equity, including machine learning and data-heavy databases.

Artificial intelligence and big data offer some of the most exciting prospects for medicine. But making good use of the data is another story.

It might seem odd that California passed the nation’s most sweeping data privacy legislation—the state is home to many companies in the tech industry, including heavyweights Facebook and Alphabet’s Google. But it turns out, Facebook and Google aren’t complaining.

The potential uses of data are exploding. But so are the regulations to keep that in check.

Global trade wars are ramping up their damage to global economies, and it’s not just the tensions between the U.S. and China that are to blame.