The Last Word: Organisations that matter will not ask whether AI replaces people. They will ask what people can now become capable of doing...
Analysis
The Iran war has left Central Europe’s growth largely intact, but inflation is sticking, Ukraine is battered and Russia is in crisis...
The memory crunch is a fab story. The quieter squeeze, one step later, in advanced packaging, runs through a few makers of ultrafast lasers...
Retail apps turned owning shares into a quick phone tap. The money seldom reaches the firms it tracks, and the votes pool in very few hands...
Six months on, Bulgaria’s feared price shock never came. Romania, watching closely next door, should note where the real trouble...
The money to rebuild Ukraine is being lined up behind public guarantees. Most of it moves only once Russia’s war has finally come to an end...
The Last Word: Heat turns assumptions into evidence. The firms that wait for normal to return are confusing relief with genuine readiness...
Conferences spent decades selling the big idea. Now, the business has learned that what people pay for is access, and is rebuilding to suit...
Few countries succeed as discreetly as Slovenia does. The low profile rather flatters the place, but capital follows attention, not modesty...
Brutal regimes rarely want for trading partners. The Taliban are only the latest to find that strategy and commerce outlast moral objection...
The EU’s door to the east is once again ajar, but the partner that spent two decades holding it wide open for newcomers is no longer inside...
Spain is regularising half a million migrants as other governments shut the door. The backlash at home has been milder than many had feared...
The Last Word: Before we start deploying AI in schools, perhaps we should learn more about what, exactly, we want to achieve by doing so...