As AI For Good opens in Geneva, governments and experts warn that the world’s AI divide is becoming a governance divide. GENEVA — The United Nations’ first Global Dialogue on AI Governance has put a sharper focus on one of the defining questions facing the international system: whether artificial intelligence
UNCTAD says global FDI rose to $1.6 trillion in 2025, but the recovery is increasingly concentrated in advanced economies and strategic sectors such as AI, semiconductors, clean energy and critical minerals. Global foreign direct investment returned to growth in 2025, offering a tentative sign of resilience in an economy still
GENEVA — For much of the past decade, the story of artificial intelligence has been defined by technological acceleration. Each year brought more capable models, greater computing power and new predictions about how AI would reshape economies, transform public services and redefine geopolitical competition. Governments raced to invest. Companies competed
As the global debate over artificial intelligence accelerates, Tomas Lamanauskas has become one of the most important multilateral figures working to ensure that AI is not only powerful, but useful — not only disruptive, but directed toward the public good. Tomas Lamanauskas, the Deputy Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union,
OpenAI has discussed granting the U.S. government a 5 percent ownership stake in the company, according to a breaking report from the Financial Times, in a proposal that would mark one of the most significant alignments yet between a frontier artificial intelligence company and the federal government. OpenAI CEO Sam
Finland’s IQM becomes the first European quantum computing firm to list on a major U.S. exchange, signaling a new phase in the race to build quantum infrastructure Europe’s quantum ambitions have reached Wall Street. IQM Quantum Computers, the Finland-based superconducting quantum computing company, has completed its business combination with Real
The expanded partnership signals a new phase for quantum computing—one focused less on theoretical breakthroughs and more on practical tools for risk, capital efficiency, and financial resilience. A New Phase for Quantum in Finance Crédit Agricole CIB and French quantum computing company Pasqal are deepening a strategic partnership aimed at
Quantum computing is entering a new era as governments, sovereign investors and institutional capital pour billions into the next strategic technology frontier The global race to build the world’s first commercially viable quantum computers is accelerating at unprecedented speed, with record levels of venture capital, institutional investment and government funding
Some entrepreneurs build companies. Kyleigha Beckmann is working to build something much larger: an economic system where opportunity is more broadly shared, commerce is more transparent, and prosperity becomes a foundation for peace. As Founding Partner of Peace Through Trade (PTT), the Brazilian entrepreneur is advancing a bold vision for
As public equity markets become increasingly concentrated around a handful of technology giants, the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds are redirecting billions toward private infrastructure, private credit and private equity—signaling a profound shift in how governments are positioning capital for the AI era. The artificial intelligence revolution is reshaping not
