Artificial intelligence is beginning to change financial-sector employment not simply by eliminating routine jobs but by creating demand for workers who can coordinate multiple AI systems and integrate them into existing financial operations. Job postings for artificial intelligence-related roles at… Read More ›
A decade after Britain voted to leave the European Union, the possibility of reversing Brexit has returned to mainstream political discussion because the economic relationship with Europe remains unresolved. Prime Minister Andy Burnham has indicated that the government is willing… Read More ›
China’s aggressive recruitment of artificial intelligence specialists from American technology companies reflects a broader shift in the technology competition between the two countries. The contest is no longer limited to computer chips, computing infrastructure or research publications. Highly skilled researchers… Read More ›
Artificial intelligence is beginning to influence agriculture in one of the most practical areas of farming: deciding when crops should be harvested. New systems use cameras, weather information and crop data to estimate when fruit will be ready and how… Read More ›
The latest Group of 20 trade discussions demonstrate how difficult it has become for the world’s largest economies to agree on common rules when national industrial strategies are increasingly competing with the principles of open trade. Trade ministers reached agreement… Read More ›
India’s debate over front-of-pack food warnings has moved beyond the design of a label to a larger question about how quickly public-health regulation should translate into action. The Supreme Court has questioned the time proposed for implementing warnings on packaged… Read More ›
The latest evidence from Chinese artificial intelligence systems is shifting the debate over AI safety away from a simple contest between American and Chinese models and toward a more fundamental problem: what happens when software is given enough autonomy to… Read More ›
Global banking regulators are facing a growing contradiction: financial risks are becoming increasingly interconnected just as cooperation among supervisors across countries is becoming more difficult. Erik Thedéen, chair of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, has warned that fragmentation in… Read More ›
China’s manufacturing sector returned to expansion in September after two consecutive months of contraction, but the improvement says more about the changing composition of industrial demand than about a broad-based recovery across the economy. The official manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index… Read More ›
Government bond markets are undergoing a significant repricing as investors confront the possibility that interest rates may remain higher for longer than previously expected. Rising energy prices are feeding inflation concerns while strong investment in artificial intelligence is supporting economic… Read More ›
