Business succession is not a question for the notary. Last June 314,824 Italian sole proprietorships had an owner aged seventy or more, almost twenty-five thousand more than a decade earlier, while the total number of such firms fell by three hundred thousand. When they close, the machinery gets sold. What the owner knew and never…

The three men building the most powerful artificial intelligence in the world are asking to slow it down. The risk that frightened them is real, and here caution is right. But a brake that only binds those who sign it hands the wheel to those who don’t.

A customer asks me for a certificate saying my contributions are in order. The State issues it, from data it already holds. It arrived after thirty-one days, with a quarter of its validity already used up, and in the meantime I had paid the same debt twice.