INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

BYD logs record EV sales in 2025

It sold 2.26m EVs vs Tesla's 1.22 by Sept end.

Google to invest $6.4bn

The investment is its biggest-ever in Germany.

Pfizer poised to buy Metsera

The pharma giant improved its offer to $10bn.

Ozempic maker lowers outlook

The company posted tepid Q3 results.

Kimberly-Clark to buy Kenvue

The deal is valued at $48.7 billion.
  • In the post-digital world, Bahrain’s center of activity, the city of Manama, has stiff yet healthy competition from the GCC...

    Today, Bahrain is reinventing its economy through focusing heavily on Fintech Innovation, developing data centers with partners such as Amazon Web Services

    The pioneer of conventional banking in the region in 1970s has been robustly supporting Shariah-compliant financial instruments amid the Fourth Industrial Revolution

  • Qatar's energy minister on Monday warned the Gulf state would halt its supply of liquefied natural gas to Europe over...

    The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) requires large companies to fix the "adverse human rights and environmental impacts" of their supply chains worldwide

    The law was backed by a broad coalition of European politicians including the left and the greens as well as centrists, including some centre-right lawmakers

  • Under the seven-year agreement, OpenAI, which is partly owned by AWS's archrival Microsoft, will gain access to computing resources including...

    The deal will also give access to tens of millions of more conventional CPUs that will be used for the everyday deployment of so-called agentic AI.

    OpenAI will immediately begin utilizing AWS computing, with all capacity targeted to be used before the end of 2026, and the ability to expand further in the coming years.

  • The 137,000-barrels-per-day hike will apply from December and remain at that level for the following three months, signifying a "pause"...

    The 137,000-barrels-per-day hike will apply from December and remain at that level for the following three months, signifying a "pause" in what had been regular hike since April

    The announced increase, which tallied with analyst expectations, has been seen as a bid by the key members of OPEC+ - known as the Voluntary Eight - to gain greater market share

  • Paris, France - An AI-generated video claiming to show one of the football stadiums for the 2034 FIFA World Cup...

    The video of glowing arena built atop a towering skyscraper was shared by thousands of social media accounts, with millions of users believing it was the official visual

    While Riyadh has unveiled plans to build a football area on a real estate complex in The Line – a futuristic new megacity project – the official plans bear no likeness to the clip

  • The company, launched in May, is bankrolled by Saudi's powerful Public Investment Fund, which has played a key role in...

    The company, launched in May, is bankrolled by Saudi's powerful Public Investment Fund, which has played a key role in financing the kingdom's gigaprojects

    But Riyadh's ambitions to become a global AI hub face fierce competition from the neighbouring United Arab Emirates, which have invested in AI for years

  • With volatile geopolitics and the resulting uncertainty, the year 2025 has been challenging for most of the countries across the...

    With its resilience and steady march, Omani economy continues to smoothly navigate geo-economic volatility

    If one looks at the economic performance of Oman, there are several lessons to be learned – the foremost being slow and steady win the race

  • The central bank's second-to-last rate meeting of the year is taking place against the backdrop of a weeks-long standoff between...

    Without these key insights into the US economy, Fed officials will be forced to set interest rates without the full spectrum of data they normally rely upon.

    The US central bank has a dual mandate from Congress to act independently to tackle both inflation and unemployment.

  • Iran declared one of the country's largest private banks bankrupt with its assets absorbed by the state, official media reported...

    Founded in 2012, Ayandeh Bank had a network of 270 branches across the country, including 150 in the capital Tehran alone

    But it had more recently been crippled by debt, with accumulated losses amounting to the equivalent of about $5.2 billion

  • AI supercomputing platforms integrate CPUs, GPUs, AI ASICs, neuromorphic and alternative computing paradigms, enabling organizations to orchestrate complex workloads while...

    AI supercomputing platforms integrate CPUs, GPUs, AI ASICs, neuromorphic and alternative computing paradigms, enabling organizations to orchestrate complex workloads

    By 2028, Gartner predicts that over 40% of leading enterprises will have adopted hybrid computing paradigm architectures into critical business workflows, up from the current 8%