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Silicon Valley is sucking up Singapore’s tech talent

In The New Geography of Innovation, writer Mehran Gul examines the increasing competition for talent in Singapore, where big tech firms are luring people away from once-prized government jobs.

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Dubai’s robotaxi dreams are coming for human drivers

The UAE plans to become the world’s testing ground for autonomous vehicles and upend the lives of 30,000 cabbies in the process.

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China’s vision for a driverless future is miles ahead of everyone else’s

Strong government backing and strict regulatory oversight of the Chinese autonomous vehicle industry contrasts sharply with the piecemeal laws and slower adoption in the U.S.

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These countries want to be the next big semiconductor hubs

Manufacturing powerhouses Mexico, Malaysia, and India want to become less reliant on expensive imports — without competing with Nvidia or TSMC.

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Marketing’s misleading metric

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