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This summary covers The Economist’s April 25th, 2026 China article listed in the contents as Chinese satellites over the Middle East and published under the headline Offering alternatives.

The article argues that China’s rapidly improving commercial satellite industry is changing the politics of wartime intelligence. During the conflict involving Iran, Israel and America, Chinese satellite firms have released images of military sites, damaged infrastructure and deployed weapons at a moment when American providers have become more constrained. That has given China a way to help America’s adversaries indirectly while advertising a fast-maturing space industry.

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This summary covers The Economist’s April 25th, 2026 Science & technology article listed in the contents as Chernobyl, 40 years on and published under the headline A laboratory like no other.

The article argues that Chernobyl is no longer only a synonym for nuclear catastrophe. Forty years after reactor number four exploded, the site has become an unmatched field laboratory for understanding how radiation moves through water, soil, food, microbes, animals and human institutions. The disaster was real, deadly and politically consequential. Yet its long afterlife has produced a large body of practical knowledge about what nuclear accidents do, what they do not do, and how societies should respond when fear outruns evidence.

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This summary covers The Economist’s April 25th, 2026 International article listed in the contents as European defence tech and published under the headline Slow and unsteady.

The article argues that Europe has begun to understand the military importance of cheap, software-driven unmanned systems, but has not yet built the industrial machinery needed to produce them at wartime scale. Drones, autonomous submarines, unmanned ground vehicles and battlefield software are no longer speculative extras. They are becoming central to how modern armies detect, strike, supply and survive.

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This summary covers The Economist’s April 25th, 2026 Science & technology article listed in the contents as Crypto-jacking and published under the headline Whose mine is it anyway?.

The article argues that crypto-jacking has become a durable form of cybercrime because it turns other people’s computing infrastructure into a hidden energy subsidy. Mining cryptocurrencies can be expensive because it consumes large amounts of processing power and electricity. Criminals can cut that cost most brutally by forcing victims to provide both.

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This summary covers The Economist’s April 25th, 2026 United States article listed in the contents as Legislating with AI and published under the headline Vote for Claude.

The article argues that artificial intelligence is quietly becoming part of the machinery of American state government. The change is not arriving first as grand constitutional theory or futuristic campaign rhetoric. It is arriving through overworked legislators, small staffs and mundane bottlenecks: research, bill drafting, talking points, hearing preparation and quick checks against lobbyists’ claims.

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This summary covers The Economist’s April 25th, 2026 Business article listed in the contents as Bezos v Musk and published under the headline Star wars.

The article argues that Jeff Bezos’s space ambitions are no longer just a side project attached to his fortune. Blue Origin and Amazon are becoming parts of the same strategic contest with Elon Musk’s SpaceX: reusable rockets, satellite internet, lunar transport and the infrastructure of the commercial space economy. The problem is that SpaceX already has the thing every rival wants, a tightly integrated machine that builds satellites, launches them and sells the resulting service at scale.

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This summary covers The Economist’s April 25th, 2026 International article listed in the contents as America's arms industry and published under the headline Shooting to prominence.

The article argues that America’s defence industry is entering a disruptive phase. The Pentagon still relies on giant contractors such as Lockheed Martin, RTX and Northrop Grumman, but war is changing faster than their procurement habits. Cheap drones, software-defined weapons and battlefield AI are making older, costlier systems look ill-suited to some of the conflicts the United States is now fighting or preparing for.

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This summary covers The Economist’s April 25th, 2026 Business article listed in the contents as Chatbot ads and published under the headline The salesman in the machine.

The article argues that artificial-intelligence chatbots are becoming a new advertising medium, not just a new software interface. As more people use large language models for search, writing, coding, shopping and personal advice, the companies running those models are starting to insert sponsored messages into the conversation. That shift matters because it could reshape both the economics of AI and the structure of digital advertising.

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This summary covers The Economist’s April 25th, 2026 Business article listed in the contents as Apple's new boss and published under the headline Too many Cooks, not enough Jobs?.

The article argues that Apple is entering a harder succession than it first appears. Tim Cook leaves behind one of the most successful corporate records in modern business: surging sales, a services machine, record iPhone demand and a market value around \$4trn. Yet his successor, John Ternus, inherits that achievement at the moment when the old Apple formula is under pressure from artificial intelligence and geopolitical fragmentation.

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This summary covers The Economist’s April 11th, 2026 Finance & economics article listed in the contents as Mullahs' moolah and published under the headline Corps corp.

The article’s central argument is that Iran’s war economy is splitting in two. Ordinary Iranians are being crushed by strikes, shortages, inflation and job losses. Yet the regime’s core financial machine, especially the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has become more resilient and in some ways more profitable. The civilian economy is breaking; the military-commercial economy is adapting.