Trusted Insights. Asian Perspective.
Foreign investors and corporate executives are increasingly visiting Chinese factories to assess advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, batteries and electric vehicles.
Elon Musk’s G20 intervention links lighter AI regulation with the electricity, chips and infrastructure needed to sustain global data-centre growth.
Andrew Bailey warns that leverage, high valuations and concentrated AI investment could amplify a correction across global financial markets.
Apple's wider leadership reset shifts attention to App Store governance, services execution and continuity under incoming chief executive John Ternus.
Agentic AI can monitor news, conduct research, draft articles and automate newsroom operations. Does that mean journalists will eventually become unnecessary? Edwin Wong argues that AI may remove much of the work, but not the judgement behind journalism.
Singapore investors are looking beyond data-centre REITs to banks, telecoms, industrial technology and software firms benefiting from AI adoption.
Malaysia’s first combined InvestSmart and Bursa Marketplace fair places scam detection, licensed advice and investment fundamentals at the centre of retail participation.
Qantas’ accelerated A380 retirement highlights the trade-off between high maintenance costs, fleet efficiency and the passenger appeal of spacious long-haul aircraft.
A proposed federal Space Academy signals a long-term US effort to build the skilled workforce required for defence, civil and commercial space expansion.
Competing US and Chinese AI initiatives can coexist if governments preserve interoperability and establish common technical safeguards.
