Patrick McGee

Winston Churchill called it “the most daring and courageous act of the entire war”. On August 30 1945, General Douglas MacArthur landed in Atsugi...

Japanese industry and Chinese manufacturing prowess played roles in the tech giant’s success, with consequences for both

John Ternus is taking over from Tim Cook as CEO of the most successful company on Earth. He will need to take risks to keep it that way.

This piece was first published in August, 2025. If you and a friend are being chased by a bear, you don't need to outrun the bear — you just need to outrun your friend.

Tim Cook made Apple a juggernaut, but he did so by risking America’s economic and political security.

Tim Cook is ending his illustrious stint as chief executive of Apple. The soft-spoken operator accomplished the near impossible, filling the shoes of the visionary co-founder Steve Jobs, tur

An IPO could value it at close to $2 trillion. Whether it's worth that depends on how you value Elon Musk's chances of transforming civilization.

Semiconductors are the most consequential product of the modern world. If Intel can start making chips as advanced as the Taiwanese do, it could help secure America’s 21st-century economy, writes Patrick McGee.

Yes, OpenAI employees may have stolen Apple’s trade secrets. But the lawsuit could also be Apple-style hardball, aimed at crushing its rival’s hardware ambitions before a single product is unveiled.

We are getting uncomfortably close to the moment when an AI agent will be capable of evading or eliminating the humans standing in the way of the job it set out to accomplish, writes Patrick McGee.