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Asia-Pacific Briefing: Nepal’s Glacier Disaster Could Cost a Tenth of Its Economy, and 9 More Stories From 29 August 2026
10 developments from the Asia-Pacific on 29 August 2026, including nepal’s glacier disaster could cost a tenth of its economy.
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Europe Briefing: Mystery Deepens After Cargo Ship Sinks off Romania, and 9 More Stories From 29 August 2026
10 developments from Europe on 29 August 2026, including mystery deepens after cargo ship sinks off romania.
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Europe Briefing: Iceland Faces a Defining EU Vote, and 9 More Stories From 29 August 2026
10 developments from Europe on 29 August 2026, including iceland faces a defining eu vote.
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Hong Kong Is Trying to Be China's AI Window to the World
Hong Kong is positioning as the bridge between Chinese AI capability and international capital, with universities, finance and a distinctive legal status.
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The Global South Is Building AI on Someone Else's Infrastructure
Most of the world runs AI on foreign cloud platforms in foreign currency. That dependency has costs few discuss.
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AI in Agriculture: Feeding the World With Satellites and Sensors
From Brazilian soy to Kenyan smallholdings, machine learning is changing farming, unevenly.
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AI in Mining: The Industry Quietly Leading Global Automation
Autonomous trucks, remote operations and predictive maintenance have made mining one of AI's biggest success stories.
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The Global AI Talent War: Who Trains the Engineers and Who Gets Them
AI researchers are among the world's most mobile workers. The countries that train them are rarely the ones that keep them.
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How AI Regulation Differs Around the World, and Why It Matters to You
The EU regulates comprehensively, the US enforces sectorally, China licenses content. Here is what each means in practice.
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The AI Chip Supply Chain, Explained in One Map
From Dutch machines to Taiwanese fabs to Korean memory, here is who actually makes AI hardware possible.
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AI Is Rewriting the World's Electricity Map
Data centre demand is forcing utilities, governments and communities into decisions they expected to face decades from now.
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The AI Language Gap: Why Most of the World Gets Worse AI
Models trained mainly on English serve billions of people poorly. Here is what that costs and who is fixing it.
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Where the World Is Actually Building Its AI Data Centres
A global map of where AI compute is physically going, and the electricity, water and politics deciding it.
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Which Countries Are Actually Winning the AI Race?
A clear-eyed ranking of national AI capability by what actually matters: chips, compute, models, talent and deployment.
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Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands Face AI From the Far Edge
Small island states with vast ocean territories are using satellite data and connectivity investment to punch above their weight.
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Cuba, Bolivia and Paraguay: Where Electricity Meets Ambition
Three Latin American economies with unusual constraints and, in Paraguay's case, an enormous energy surplus.
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Central America and the Caribbean Are Betting on Nearshore AI Services
Costa Rica, Panama, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica are selling proximity, time zones and English or Spanish fluency.
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Georgia and Azerbaijan Are Wiring the Caucasus Corridor
Two Caucasus economies are positioning as digital and energy transit routes between Europe and Asia.
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Cambodia, Laos and Mongolia: Small Economies, Big Neighbours
Three small Asian economies developing digital sectors in the shadow of much larger regional powers.
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Cameroon and Central Africa's Digital Gap
Central Africa has the continent's weakest digital infrastructure, and the widest gap between potential and access.
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Angola and Mozambique Are Laying Cable and Looking for the Next Economy
Two lusophone economies dependent on resources are investing in connectivity as a first step toward a digital sector.
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Algeria and North Africa's Untapped Solar Corridor
Algeria has vast solar potential and a young technical population, held back by a state-dominated economy.
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Côte d'Ivoire and Francophone West Africa Are Building a Digital Bloc
Abidjan is becoming a regional technology centre for a French-speaking market of over 100 million people.
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The Congo Digs the Cobalt That Powers the AI Boom
The Democratic Republic of Congo supplies most of the world's cobalt. AI monitoring is now used to police the supply chain it feeds.
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