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“Asia is at the heart of this drama."
“By 2030, two‑thirds of the global middle class is going to be in Asia."
Food wholesaler Mitsubishi Shokuhin is partnering with Yami, an e-commerce platform focused on Asian goods.
The OpenClaw craze aligns with China’s embrace of open-source AI, a strategy that has helped build labs’ reputation among the developer community.
Several golfers were stuck in the Middle East due to the Iran war; Jon Rahm’s private jet helped get them to Hong Kong.
"Whoever wins the AI race will win the economic race, and will win the race for economic power and influence globally,” Khosla tells Fortune.
Prasad, author of “The Doom Loop,” worries that the forces behind globalization are worsening instability–and that global business is making...
Chief product officer Dong-jae Lee uses the analogy of a dungeon master for a tabletop RPG: the AI constructs a narrative in response to user choices.
“It is highly likely that trade deals currently under negotiation will be put on ice,” says Cornell professor Eswar Prasad.
Deng says digital tokens could modernize business payments still bogged down by PDFs and emails.
“2026 is going to be about how we deliver" the 13th Malaysia Plan, says economy minister Akmal Nasir, and ensure reforms aren’t "missing in action."
Subramaniam—FedEx's second-ever CEO, and a company lifer—now has to lead the Global 500 company without founder Fred Smith for the first time.
ByteDance gets to keep its algorithm, manage activities like e-commerce—and focus on its next battle, AI.
Ascend Money’s work providing financing to Thailand’s underbanked populations helped get the fintech company onto Fortune’s 2025 “Change the...
Samsung has turned to an outsider—Mauro Porcini—and asked him use his approach to design to help the Korean company keep ahead of its competitors.
Hong Kong has tentatively embraced cryptocurrencies and digital assets as a way to shore up its status as an international financial center.
Jin Liqun, the first president of the AIIB, talks international cooperation, infrastructure, and investment in an interview with Fortune.
Yet the next generation of robots will soon be able to learn from experience, creating more adaptable machines—perfect for the home and the factory,...
"People want to know that if they input data to a model, the model won’t train on their data,” said HP's Dave McQuarrie.
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Fu and Swire Hotels deputy chairman Toby Smith discuss design and ‘quiet luxury’ at Fortune Brainstorm Design.
ByteDance, the owner of TikTok and target of Washington ire, operates China’s most popular chatbot, Doubao.
“The people who first made Nintendo’s hits are still working at the company,” says Keza MacDonald, author of a forthcoming book about the company.
Labubu has powered monster growth for Chinese toymaker Pop Mart and tapped into China's newfound branding power that could outlast the toy's...
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Experts at the Fortune Innovation Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last week were hopeful that smaller countries could invest in AI that works for...
Companies in the AI space are paying more attention to “physical AI,” or artificial intelligence that operates in the real world.
CEO Tony Han talks about Chinese investors, self-driving cars as social good, and why companies like Uber are turning to Chinese robotaxi partners.
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At the Fortune Global Forum in Riyadh, exchange heads trade notes about uncertainty, new competition, and Labubu.
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DBS CEO Tan Su Shan says the tariffs are bringing together once-estranged trading partners.
DBS's new CEO is No. 1 on Fortune's second-ever Most Powerful Women Asia ranking, among a finance- and tech-heavy top five.
“Silicon Valley will remain very pro-immigrant,” Notable Capital managing partner Hans Tung said at Fortune Brainstorm Tech last week.
China's top internet regulator has reportedly asked tech firms to stop using Nvidia's chips, deeming that local alternatives are good enough to...
AI is letting design firms create sketches and renders more quickly, allowing architects to enrich their pitches with more imagery and video.
“There’s a ton of money being poured into defense from venture capitalists right now,” said Steve Simoni, founder of Allen Control Systems.
"Communication skills, being empathetic...these are the cognitive skills that AI is not doing quite well yet," says Lan Guan, Accenture's chief AI...
The U.S has yet to formally notify Nvidia that it will get export licenses in exchange for a 15% cut of revenue.
Beijing “is really intolerant of economic instability, and so everything gets smoothed,” Derek Scissors of the American Enterprise Institute says.
“If Nvidia and AMD are given special treatment…why shouldn't other companies be doing the same?” says one expert.
One dismayed Democratic lawmaker said the move signals to China “that American national security principles are negotiable for the right fee."
DeepSeek's AI models are still influencing the AI conversation, even eight months later.
Yum China's HK-traded shares are down about 3% since Tuesday, even as the KFC and Pizza Hut operator posted 4% year-on-year revenue growth last...
Southeast Asia should be an attractive home for tech startups. But investors in the region say the ecosystem is still coming together.
The population in China is getting older—and wealthier, better educated, and more skilled. The company sees it as a business opportunity.
“I don’t think we should be at the cutting edge of innovation around AI as a big bank," said Craig Corte, an executive at Standard Chartered.
“If I can be replaced by AI, so can everything else!”
AI that’s been trained on English, and not one of Southeast Asia’s hundreds of different languages, “will perhaps not meet the requirements of...
Asia's "mobile-first market" makes it easier for scammers to make a direct connection to their victims.