AI

  Demand for artificial intelligence is surging and boosting economic growth, with the headlines focusing on North America. But when Asia is included, total worldwide spending on AI and related industries is expected to top $1 trillion in 2026. Increasing exports and investments into modern infrastructure are fueling large economies like Japan, South Korea and […]

  Millions of cyberattacks exploiting two critical vulnerabilities in a widely used programming language for websites and internet applications forced governments, institutions, businesses and other organizations temporarily offline last week. The two gaps, collectively known as PHP2Shell, allowed attackers to execute malicious code on exposed web servers, potentially stealing sensitive data or disrupting services. Artificial […]

  The steam engine, followed by electricity, the combustion engine (leading to automobiles) and computers all brought tremendous improvements and productivity gains, leading to widespread prosperity in many countries. They also caused great anxieties and fear of unemployment. Yet, the increased prosperity created new demand, and the jobs lost, for instance in agriculture, were replaced […]

Over the past two decades, the European Union has become the world’s leading regulator of the digital economy, setting many of the rules governing how technology companies operate worldwide. Yet while Brussels has shaped global standards through the GDPR, the Digital Markets Act, the Digital Services Act, and the AI Act, Europe has failed to […]

  The debate over Universal Basic Income (UBI), a policy in which the state provides a regular, unconditional sum of money to all citizens, is far from new. It periodically returns to the limelight every few years, discussed vigorously for a few months before slipping back into irrelevance after the idea is dismantled as unworkable, […]