Last year, the UK witnessed one of the greatest-ever annual increases in its population, due to new arrivals. Wasn’t reducing immigration a key result promised by #Brexit advocates? On this and so many other points, they misled the public: www.bbc.com/news/article...

McKinsey’s latest #tech outlook highlights 13 frontier trends, with a focus on agentic AI as a “digital coworker,” robotics at a tipping point, and the energy transition accelerating. Scaling semiconductors and digital trust are key to #AI success: www.mckinsey.com/capabilities... #trends

In remarks on international #development, Chinese Premier Li Qiang stressed his government's commitment to inclusive growth, innovation, sustainability, and global cooperation in New York this week: www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/xw/zyxw/... #UNGA80 #poverty #infrasrtucture

Robert Reich warns that #AI is rapidly replacing “thinking” jobs, while “caring” roles that require human empathy remain safe. He urges adaptability over rigid career paths, emphasizes empathy-driven work & predicts universal basic income may be needed: www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Chinese youth are anxious, and a lot of them are unemployed: asiasociety.org/policy-insti... @asiasociety.org

Four-fifths of China’s lost exports to the US have already found alternative markets in the second quarter, the top destinations being Southeast Asia and Europe: www.hinrichfoundation.com/research/art... @gdp1985.bsky.social #trade

A group of more than 85 climate experts has released a scathing review of the Trump administration’s “Climate Working Group” report on climate change science, condemning it as “biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policymaking”: www.desmog.com/2025/09/02/8...

Feed: "Big Issue" By: Sarah Housley on Wednesday, August 27, 2025

🌍 What will 2050 look like - paradise or collapse? From climate reckoning to AI revolutions, this eye-opening journey maps the futures we could live - depending on the choices we make today. The future isn’t written. It’s chosen. By Hamza Habib: vocal.media/futurism/wha... #Futures #Climate #Tech

The makers of #AI keep pushing the art of utopian forecasting to new levels of hyperbole. #Tech revolutions always come with promises, but the AI industry has set such impossibly high targets for itself that it's bound to face a sobering reset: www.axios.com/2025/09/23/a...

🚗💡 Future mobility investment #trends show a shift. While overall investment remains steady, it’s evolving - more targeted, larger deals focus on scaling electrified and autonomous tech. The next phase? Optimizing existing assets and refining mature technologies: tinyurl.com/38eekayw #EV#Mobility

Notwithstanding some recent false assertions, most domestic terrorists in the U.S. are politically on the right, and right-wing attacks account for the vast majority of fatalities from domestic terrorism. Here's what independent research shows: theconversation.com/right-wing-e...

The price of the #Trump meme coin today is about one-fifth of its value just seven months ago.

President Trump plans to attend the #47th Asean Summit, to be hosted by Malaysia next month.

Pakistan and #China have agreed to establish a consortium of bilateral and multilateral partners to finance a $7 billion railway project as part of the second phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): ibcworldnews.com/2025/09/09/p... #BRI #infrastructure #India #Pakistan

A surge of recent licensing deals for Chinese drugs is sending new signals that the U.S. could be toppled as the world's #Biotech leader: www.axios.com/2025/09/08/c...

There are now more unemployed Americans than job openings for the first time in four years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. #jobless #labor #employment #Trump

There's an emerging conventional wisdom that we're heading into a trough or slowing growth in the #AI lifecycle, not superintelligence (yet). www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a... #automation #FutureofWork #technology

Chinese firms are heading to the Global South amid rising US tariffs on Chinese goods. S&P Global expects this trend to continue as companies look to diversify sales away from the US and expand to other markets with stronger growth prospects than at home: www.spglobal.com/en/research-...

“The rate of improvement of AI has been incredible...and so, any prediction about how it’s going to impact the job market has to recognize that we don’t know exactly how good AI will be 2, 3, 4, 5 years from now" -@DanielBZhao, Chief Economist, @Glassdoor: thehill.com/policy/techn...

China has signed a treaty with the 5 Central Asian republics, blending infrastructure, diplomacy & law into a bold vision for regional order - a bold bid to redefine international cooperation norms. Hao Nan Research fellow, Charhar Institute: eastasiaforum.org/2025/08/23/c...

President Trump has invoked an illegal (per U.S. GAO) “pocket rescission” to claw back roughly $5 billion from the U.S. State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development: newrepublic.com/post/199840/...

China has emerged as a pivotal partner in Indonesia’s effort to decarbonize without derailing economic growth or industrialization: asiasociety.org/policy-insti... #energy #greentransition #China #climateaction

U.S. soybean farmers, who are facing plunging prices and rising costs, have warned that continued Chinese reliance on Brazilian soybean supplies could cost American farmers billion$ and threaten their long-term survival: www.feedstuffs.com/policy/soybe...

A study described in the latest edition of @Nature highlights tourism’s significant role in driving economic growth in #ASEAN countries, particularly in more developed nations, and encourages sustainable #tourism practices in less-developed economies: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

President Trump and his family stand to net around $3.4 billion by the end of his 2nd term, David Kirkpatrick reports for The New Yorker. No U.S. president has monetized the highest office in the land quite like this: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... #Grifter #corruption #MAGA

Jonathan Brill Highlights the Transformation of Business Through AI in Info-Tech's New Podcast Episode#Canada#Toronto#AI_Leadership#Digital_Disruption#Jonathan_Brill

Prices for goods made in #China and sold on Amazon.com have been rising faster than overall #inflation, according to an analysis of 1,400 different products, a sign that tariffs are starting to hit American consumers: www.reuters.com/business/ret... @sidcavale.bsky.social

South Korea’s new president, Lee Jae Myung, has entered office amid global turmoil, with great power and bold promises. Can he reset #Korea, Inc. and manage relations with North Korea & China, and deal with economic stagnation? 👉 carnegieendowment.org/research/202... #SouthKorea #LeeJaeMyung

A Harvard Business Review study found the leading use case of chat-based #GenAI is therapy and companionshipn (pay wall): hbr.org/2025/04/how-... #AI

China’s development finance institution lending fell to $6.1B in 2024 - down sharply from BRI-era highs over $30B - and has shifted focus away from energy, marking a major pivot in its global development finance strategy: tinyurl.com/43twab2z

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

www.forbes.com/sites/joshua... @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social @altusaid.altgov.info @usaidstopwork.bsky.social @beyer.house.gov @timkaine2.bsky.social @markwarner.bsky.social @houseforeign.bsky.social Who is going to hold State accountable?

How long before Naomi #Osaka issues an apology and belated congratulations to the supremely talented young, modest, classy opponent she lost to this evening in the National Bank Open in Montréal? Honestly, Osaka does not appear ready to deal with the demands of the professional circuit. #Mboko

Watch the full career event here👇

As the global development sector grapples with funding cuts, @bartapest.bsky.social of McGill University explains how AI can boost productivity and efficiency. #careers #ai #technology #globaldevelopment

India’s IT sector is emulating Silicon Valley by engaging in AI-driven layoffs. Tata Consultancy Services, the world’s biggest outsourcing provider, laid off 12,000 people as it reorganizes to better focus on AI tools and services. -Bloomberg

I’m not sure that American democracy remains a positive example for the free world. Exhibit #147: www.cnn.com/2025/08/03/p...

By 2040, “the need to work will go away. People will work on things because they want to, not because they need to pay their mortgage,” -Billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla www.indiatoday.in/technology/n...

As the United States federal government retreats from climate leadership, the #EU and #China are stepping up to advance global climate action: www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre... #emissions #renewables #greentransition #climateaction #sustainability

In the field of international development, AI has already altered roles like M&E specialists, project managers, and policy analysts, especially by augmenting human capabilities, automating repetitive tasks, and enabling data-driven decision-making. #FutureofWork www.devex.com/news/7-globa...

Coco Robotics has been testing food delivery bots around L.A. for years — and it plans to grow its AI-powered fleet to about 10,000 in the coming year: www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Piper Sandler's research note declares #Trump's #trade deals illegal. Their analysis of court battles and legislative authority concluded that his reliance on IEEPA for tariffs and bilateral agreements exceeds congressional powers: fortune.com/2025/07/25/t... #tariffs

If you believe the hype, by 2050, cities may float, fly, or stretch for miles, with proposed plans including sky gardens, solar walls, glow in the dark sand, drone commuting and spaceports: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Tariffs have started to push up prices. bsky.app/profile/econ...

So, again - some good news for the Fed that the broader disinflation process remains underway, but also enough clear evidence that tariffs are putting upward pressure on goods prices even at this early stage.

Global fertility is falling fast, signalling a shift from population boom to decline. Challenges loom - but so do opportunities for innovation, sustainability, and smarter growth. The future isn’t smaller - it’s different: imf.org/en/Pu…#Demographicsc#Fertilityt#FutureOfWorkr#Agingn#Migrationon

Brazil plans to triple #trade with #India in response to 50 per cent #tariffs on U.S. imports of its goods. #India #BRICS

Brazil plans to triple #trade with #India in response to 50 per cent #tariffs on U.S. imports of its goods. #India #BRICS