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Organisations that matter will not ask whether AI replaces people. They will ask what people can now become capable of doing.

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Russians have created a new market,  from intermediaries promising to locate missing soldiers to scammers hunting for ...

The memory crunch is a fab story. The quieter squeeze, one step later, in advanced packaging, runs through a few makers of ...

Demand for a few, highly advanced technology skills is surging while Europe’s wider IT employment market softens. How to square the circle? In March 2026 Arthur Mensch, who runs Mistral AI, raised 830 ...

Radu Magdin is a global analyst and consultant, and former prime ministerial advisor in Romania and Moldova. The 21st century will be shaped not only by the rise of Asia, but by regions that connect ...

No, one more lane will not make any difference: widening roads remains a fool’s errand. Cities that price driving honestly get fewer cars. Gilles Duranton and Matthew Turner published the canonical ...

Mongolia has a bold plan, a surplus, and good demographics. The economy still runs on copper, however, and the copper boom is part of why. In May 2025, Mongolia’s State Training Fund announced a ...