As online users increasingly put questions to AI, not Google, publishers and businesses built on referral traffic are paying the dearest. Google became a...
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Tech trends and breakthroughs from Central Europe to Central Asia
From catching up to shaping Europe: Five strategic resets, and a 5C Framework for winning the Second Age of Leadership in emerging Europe. For thirty years, Central and...
Romania’s stock market is small, unfashionable and, over the past decade, the best-performing in the world. Almost no Romanians own a share. There is, of course...
A brutal July sell-off in AI chip shares has caught out many retail investors. Whether prices return to their highs is the loudest question. Mark Zuckerberg did not buy...
A record shortage of truck drivers is now throttling the world’s trade, and this time it will not fix itself when the economy turns. Umberto de Pretto, who runs...
A wave of costly failures has humbled vertical farming. Its next chapter is now being written underground, and it looks far more affordable. In July Jacob Nickles and...
The rush to colonise the heavens says more about the urge to flee Earth than to save it. Its real worth may lie a good deal closer to home. In April four astronauts flew...
Unicorns are badges of honour for many countries, but the success of a start-up ecosystem cannot be measured by mythical creatures alone. Just six months after Cast AI...
The Western Balkans IT sector has turned a difficult history into a key selling point, and clients are increasingly willing to pay for it. Three World Bank economists...
Brussels is pouring billions into digitising Europe’s water networks, promising fewer leaks and cleaner data, even as hackers test them too. In Bytom, a mining...
The memory crunch is a fab story. The quieter squeeze, one step later, in advanced packaging, runs through a few makers of ultrafast lasers. Tim Cook told the Wall...
Central and Eastern Europe is becoming Europe’s engine, not its edge. That transition needs a coherent agenda, not sentimentality. For the better part of two...
Few countries succeed as discreetly as Slovenia does. The low profile rather flatters the place, but capital follows attention, not modesty. Of Europe’s smaller...