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Europe’s AI gap is not about technology — it is about weak hands-on use at work Productivity gains come from daily tool use, not from policy frameworks alone Without faster workplace adoption, Europe will fall further behind global peers

Trump’s tariffs are driving factories and capital from China into Southeast Asia ASEAN is gaining ground in high-tech exports and global manufacturing Education and skills will decide whether this shift creates lasting, quality jobs

U.S. spin-off narrows feeds Students lose global views Mandate diversity metrics, open datasets TikTok reaches millions of Americans every day, and a significant number are students. In 2024, Pew found that 58% of U.S.

Industrial subsidies in East Asia misallocate resources and dampen productivity Cheap credit and opaque, incumbent-favoring programs entrench weak firms Make support transparent, performance-based, and linked to skills and exit

Quantum Echoes delivered a verified 13,000× speedup, elevating quantum chaos education Curricula should pivot from qubit counts to competence in echoes, OTOCs, and noise Fund teacher PD, simple cloud labs, and artifact-based assessment

China’s soft power problem is monetization, not creativity Shift incentives to export outcomes, licensing, and private experimentation Let partners localize, focus on proven genres, and flip the IP receipts–payments gap

Learning spreads through educator networks Eigenvector centrality pinpoints the hubs to seed first Targeting those hubs speeds recovery systemwide Seventy percent of 10-year-olds in low- and middle-inc

AI tongue diagnosis turns a centuries-old check into fast, cheap triage With phones and clear protocols, it flags likely risks for confirmatory tests Deploy in primary care with consent, calibration, and monitoring to scale safely

This article is based on ideas originally published by VoxEU – Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and has been independently rewritten and extended by The Economy editorial team. While inspired by the original analysis, the content presented here reflects a broader interpretation and additional commentary. The views expressed do not necessarily represent those of VoxEU or CEPR.

This article is based on ideas originally published by VoxEU – Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and has been independently rewritten and extended by The Economy editorial team. While inspired by the original analysis, the content presented here reflects a broader interpretation and additional commentary. The views expressed do not necessarily represent those of VoxEU or CEPR.

This article is based on ideas originally published by VoxEU – Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and has been independently rewritten and extended by The Economy editorial team. While inspired by the original analysis, the content presented here reflects a broader interpretation and additional commentary. The views expressed do not necessarily represent those of VoxEU or CEPR.

This article was independently developed by The Economy editorial team and draws on original analysis published by East Asia Forum. The content has been substantially rewritten, expanded, and reframed for broader context and relevance. All views expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the official position of East Asia Forum or its contributors.

This article is based on ideas originally published by VoxEU – Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and has been independently rewritten and extended by The Economy editorial team. While inspired by the original analysis, the content presented here reflects a broader interpretation and additional commentary. The views expressed do not necessarily represent those of VoxEU or CEPR.

From Jakarta’s toll roads to Tokyo’s Marunouchi subway, rush-hour traffic has thinned in ways few labor economists dared predict. Bureau of Labor Statistics microdata released in February 2025 shows that the share of Asian women who reported teleworking at least once a week jumped from 7% in 2019 to 32.5% by late 2024—a near-quadruple leap matched only by wartime mobilization in modern economic history.

This article was independently developed by The Economy editorial team and draws on original analysis published by East Asia Forum. The content has been substantially rewritten, expanded, and reframed for broader context and relevance. All views expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the official position of East Asia Forum or its contributors.

This article was independently developed by The Economy editorial team and draws on original analysis published by East Asia Forum. The content has been substantially rewritten, expanded, and reframed for broader context and relevance. All views expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the official position of East Asia Forum or its contributors.

Universities now channel almost $14 million every hour into public cloud infrastructure, a spending line that already exceeds the combined global budgets for faculty development and student mental health programs. Data centers consume 415 terawatt-hours of electricity annually, a demand curve projected to surpass Japan’s national consumption before 2030. Conventional wisdom treats those figures as the inevitable price of artificial intelligence progress.

On a raw Tuesday morning this past April, two lines of data crossed in a way every curriculum committee should heed. First, Pew reported that 37% of American adults now begin a web search directly inside ChatGPT rather than using Google (Pew Research Center, 2025a). Second, a Vectara/Hugging Face leaderboard quietly showed that even the best model, GPT-4o-mini, still invents facts in 1.7% of answers—and in domain-specific writing, that figure can skyrocket past 40%.

This article was independently developed by The Economy editorial team and draws on original analysis published by East Asia Forum. The content has been substantially rewritten, expanded, and reframed for broader context and relevance. All views expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the official position of East Asia Forum or its contributors.

This article was independently developed by The Economy editorial team and draws on original analysis published by East Asia Forum. The content has been substantially rewritten, expanded, and reframed for broader context and relevance. All views expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the official position of East Asia Forum or its contributors.