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Kristalina Georgieva warns that the technology lifting growth hopes is also pushing up inflation and yields. She notes this comes just as public debt levels rose.
Read the original →Georgieva warns that AI technology creates an economic paradox. It boosts growth while inflating costs.
Read the original →The report shows employers are facing growing demand for talent and increasing uncertainty about how to find it at the same time.
Read the original →Google announced a series of power agreements totaling more than 6 gigawatts (GW).
Read the original →Driven by A.I. data centers, the U.S. now plans 60 gigawatts of new gas plants through 2030, nearly triple the 2023 figure. Local opposition is growing.
Read the original →CHIPS Act incentives, reshoring, and investment in advanced packaging help capture AI, 5G, and automotive demand while reducing supply chain risk.
Read the original →Sub-Saharan Africa's greatest AI opportunity lies in affordable, locally adapted applications that run on low-bandwidth networks, not frontier systems.
Read the original →Taiwanese OSAT provider Sigurd Microelectronics and its subsidiary Winstek Semiconductor held a joint investor briefing on October 6. President Charles Yeh reported that surging demand across AI CPUs, GPUs, ASICs, silicon photonics, and memory is severely tightening testing capacity. This is prompting long-term contracts, price adjustments, and a potential upward revision to 2026 capex.
Read the original →About 300 young people are expected to take part in the "Prime Minister and Youth Dialogue 2026" program. Its themes are startups, innovation, AI, employment, training and talent development.
Read the original →Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu predicts AI may replace only about 5 per cent of the work currently done by humans over the next decade. He argues that AI development should focus more on improving workers' capabilities than on replacing them.
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