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Sri Lanka, Nepal and Myanmar: AI at the Margins
Three South Asian economies show how crisis, isolation and geography shape whether AI arrives at all.
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The Philippines Runs the World's Call Centres. AI Is Coming for Them
An economy built on voice services faces the most direct AI disruption of any country, and is racing to move up the value chain.
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Florida, North Carolina and Ohio Are Buying Their Way Into AI
Three states are using incentives, universities and cheap land to attract semiconductor plants and data centres.
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Illinois, Colorado and Utah: America's Quiet AI Middle
Chicago's finance, Colorado's research labs and Utah's low-cost tech corridor form an underrated American AI belt.
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Iceland Runs Data Centres on Volcanoes
Geothermal energy, cold air and a tiny language make Iceland a distinctive case in the AI economy.
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The Baltics Are Small, Digital, and Punching Above Their Weight
Lithuania and Latvia built financial technology sectors and digital states on tiny populations and heavy specialisation.
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Greece and the Balkans Are Building AI on Tourism, Shipping and Sunshine
Greece, Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria are developing AI capability around shipping, tourism, outsourcing and renewable energy.
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Romania and Hungary: Eastern Europe's Engineering Bargain
Strong technical education and low costs made both countries engineering destinations. Both now face the retention problem.
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Austria and Czechia Are Turning Old Industry Into Smart Industry
Two central European economies with strong engineering traditions are applying AI to manufacturing rather than chasing consumer tech.
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Belgium Writes Europe's AI Rules and Hosts the Lobbyists Fighting Them
Brussels is where European AI law is made, which makes Belgium the most politically important AI address on the continent.
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Pakistan and Bangladesh Have 400 Million People and a Software Export Plan
South Asia's other giants are building AI capability through freelancing, software services and very large young populations.
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Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Armenia Are Absorbing Russia's Lost Engineers
Central Asia and the Caucasus gained thousands of technology workers and are trying to build lasting industries around them.
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Russia's AI Sector Is Isolated, Improvising, and Not Standing Still
Sanctions cut Russia off from advanced chips and Western partnerships. Its AI development continues under severe constraints.
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Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Jordan: The Gulf's Second Tier Goes Digital
Smaller Middle Eastern economies are pursuing AI through sovereign investment, logistics and, in Jordan's case, exported talent.
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Turkey Builds Its Own Drones, Chips and AI Rules
Turkey's defence industry made autonomous systems a national priority, while its manufacturers and banks adopt AI at scale.
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Israel's AI Industry Was Built by Its Military
Elite military technology units feed a startup ecosystem that produces AI companies at a rate no country of nine million should manage.
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Saudi Arabia Is Building AI Cities in the Desert
The kingdom is converting oil revenue into compute, data centres and Arabic models as part of a broader economic transformation.
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The UAE Is Spending Oil Money to Become an AI Superpower
Abu Dhabi is building sovereign compute, open models and global partnerships on a scale no country of its size has attempted.
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Australia and New Zealand Are Rich, Remote, and Rethinking AI
Two wealthy economies far from everything are applying AI to mining and agriculture while debating how hard to regulate it.
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Argentina, Colombia and Peru: Latin America's Overlooked AI Talent Pool
Three economies with strong technical education, weak currencies and engineers increasingly working remotely for the world.
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Chile Is Selling the Atacama Desert to the AI Industry
Chile has the world's best solar resource, critical minerals and a stable economy. It also has a serious water problem.
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Mexico Is Where American Companies Are Quietly Moving Their AI Engineering
Nearshoring pushed manufacturing and engineering into Mexico. AI work is following the same route.
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Brazil Is Latin America's AI Heavyweight, and It Regulates Like Europe
Brazil combines the region's largest technology market, world-leading agricultural AI and an EU-style regulatory ambition.
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Canada Invented Modern AI and Watched Others Commercialise It
Canadian researchers built the foundations of deep learning. The country's challenge has always been keeping the companies that follow.
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