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1 July 2024

Like other game-changing technologies before it, artificial intelligence is expected to unleash new wealth creation, resource reallocation and societal change. But the precise forms that this will take – and at what speed…

20 May 2024

Renewables account for the majority of energy capacity additions globally, and governments worldwide have recently committed to triple renewables by 2030. Our UBS panellists explain how private infrastructure offers an…

29 April 2024

Professor Geoffrey Hinton, the British-Canadian computer scientist known as the “godfather of AI”, discusses the future of artificial intelligence with his former collaborator De Kai in a special edition of the programme…

A sense of security is key to a high quality of urban life. Here, we profile five companies using technology to keep us out of harm’s way.

Subjects tackled by our essayists this issue: how the rise of AI might not have detrimental effects on human workers; why silicon chips might trigger a war in Asia; how Saudi Arabia needs to spare a thought for foreign…

Though soon to be stripped of its status as a capital city, Jakarta remains the beating heart of Indonesian entrepreneurship.

9 October 2023

UBS Q-Series research connects the dots across asset classes, geographies and sectors. Today we hear from the analysts behind UBS Evidence Lab’s newest teardown of the electric car. In this most recent iteration, the EV in…

11 September 2023

Forget the recent hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and join us for a look at the clear economic application for the new technology. Paul Donovan of UBS explains why the economics of AI are also those of disr…

Meet the man making phone-free spaces happen – in concerts, schools and even courtrooms.

31 July 2023

The latest UBS global Investor Watch report surveyed more than 500 US business owners who recently sold up or are considering doing so within the next five years. Bianca Benedetti-Fang, executive director of the UBS Busi…

The need to trial initiatives in our cities has never been greater – and finding the right test bed is key. These experiments, from air mobility in Singapore to co-ordinated transport services in Pittsburgh via a techno…

28 July 2020

We learn more about some of the technological changes that the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated in the world of work – and how organisations and individuals can best navigate them.

Meet Margrethe Vestager, the EU competition commissioner who knits elephants while pulling apart the finances of technology behemoths.

LinkedIn for Spanish seniors, a Greek start-up reviving dead leaves and a San Francisco neighbourhood gets a new brand.

The world’s most popular language-learning tool uses our own innate competitiveness – and a passive-aggressive owl – to keep users motivated.