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The excruciating quest for a meeting room

A tale of territorial ambition, power dynamics and water bottles

It is still too early to know how AI usage affects young people’s ability to learn. But research suggests that students using AI do not read as carefully when doing research, and that they write with diminished accuracy and originality.
THE BROAD VIEW

AI companies are eating higher education

The battle between bots and brains has already begun, and educators can see how it might end

While Budget 2026's policy direction applies across the economy, outcomes will become more uneven, with stronger firms better able to absorb volatility, and weaker ones exposed more quickly.
PERSPECTIVE

How policy-driven growth shifts investment risk

As Singapore Budget 2026 accelerates internationalisation and AI adoption, investors must focus on firms’ execution quality

A digital bridge is rapidly connecting rural communities across Asia's hinterlands. The next half-billion Internet users will mostly come from Asia's villages and small towns in the next few years.

Galloping across the digital bridge: rural Asia’s ‘fire horse’ transformation

The momentum behind the region’s digital bridge is now unmistakable

Chinese EV players such as BYD have transformed their brands and quality levels.

Three AI investment opportunities outside the indices

For those concerned about an AI bubble, the answer is not to retreat from global equities, but to look beyond the giants

The problematic Just Energy Transition Partnership’s financing packages are far short of what is needed, researchers say.
ESG INSIGHTS

Issue 182: Private equity targets coal; Singapore’s carbon tax realism

This week in ESG: Eastspring, Reviva launch coal phase-out strategy; Singapore Budget 2026 signals caution on carbon tax

Singapore is moving decisively to stay ahead, as automation and AI reshape industries faster than organisations can redesign roles.
THE BROAD VIEW

A future-first Budget: invest, scale, compete

Singapore Budget 2026 targets critical gaps in AI and internationalisation to scale local firms for the long haul

On the whole, Budget 2026 plays to Singapore’s clear strengths while exemplifying the country’s focused strategy for a new era of growth.
COMMENTARY

Budget 2026: Accelerating Singapore’s growth in a fragmented world

As global trade fractures, Budget 2026 doubles down on AI integration while reinforcing the social compact

While the sporting side of the Winter Olympics has so far proceeded relatively smoothly, the event has faced a catalogue of wider challenges.

Winter Olympics 2026 beset with business and geopolitical controversies

As the Winter Games unfold, business and geopolitical friction is distracting from the sporting action

From left: Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO, Google DeepMind; Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief, The Economist; and Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder, Anthropic.

The lab leaders want to slow down on AI. Someone needs to help them

Here is why ‘middle powers’ like Singapore may hold the key to coordinating the advance of AI