The AI race is no longer just about building better models. As competition shifts from scientific discovery to deployment, success increasingly depends on computing power, advanced semiconductors, physical infrastructure, and markets large enough to justify the enormous investments they require.
24 June 2026 Biennial report assesses progress towards euro adoption in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden Countries under review show economic resilience to external shocks but still face obstacles on road to euro adoption Mixed inflation trends, with fiscal situation deteriorating in most countries Legislation in all five countries not fully compatible with…
en English Economics Jul 22, 2026 Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg Viewed in isolation, the Trump administration’s new, more restrictive student-visa policy may seem modest. But as part of a broader retreat from openness, it signals that the country once known for offering…
The NYK Venus container ship, operated by Nippon Yusen KK, moored at the Oi Container Terminal in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japan exports in June grew at their fastest pace since November 2022, rising 19.3% from a year earlier, powered by shipments of semiconductor equipment and…
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Commerzbank’s Tatha Ghose highlights that Poland’s Law and Justice party has split, with Mateusz Morawiecki forming Development Plus and polling above the Sejm threshold. While this could, in theory, reduce the risk of a dominant PiS government and lower the zloty’s political risk premium, competing scenarios of a fragmented, harder-to-manage right leave the overall Polish…
PARIS—Did the AI boom begin when it did simply as a result of scientific breakthroughs? At first glance, it would seem so. The transformer architecture—the foundation of today’s large language models—was introduced in 2017. By 2020, researchers had established the basic logic of scaling: more computation and data produce predictably better models. Then, in late 2022, the public launch of ChatGPT revealed the mass-market appeal of these technologies, setting off a global race for AI leadership.