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Digital finance erodes anti-money laundering regime

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Money laundering activities are underpinned by existing digital technologies within financial systems, and are intensifying with the emergence of fintech.

Weak GDP may delay policymakers’ ‘Industry 4.0’ plans

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INTERNATIONAL

This spending is needed as manufacturers are under pressure to re-engineer their businesses by deploying technologies to enhance productivity and develop and scale new products…

Digitalisation will drive cross-border services trade

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INTERNATIONAL

Services trade outlook.

Adoption of new technologies raises cybersecurity need

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These technologies are being adopted in the context of hybrid working and global digital supply chain integration. These technologies promise improved efficiency, service…

Commercial metaverse to expand fast but unevenly

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Although the metaverse is in its early days, the enabling technologies are approaching a convergence point where some large companies are starting to experiment with it both as a…

AI 'companions' will become common

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They are represented by realistic-looking human avatars, with whom people can form one-to-one social relationships. Today, the number of people with such AI companions likely…

Digital services will widen gap among states globally

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Such expectations will be difficult to meet because of the financial constraints imposed by debt accumulated to fight the pandemic and address its economic consequences. Many…

Private healthcare will expand in Latin America

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LATIN AMERICA

The outlook for private healthcare.

Human-like AI raises deception risks for users

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The perception of AI sentience as real by an individual such as Lemoine -- with full awareness of the synthetic nature of LaMDA and technical knowledge of its workings -…

US-China tensions loom over undersea internet cables

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Most users’ interaction with the internet occurs wirelessly but underpinning global data delivery are hundreds of submarine cables that traverse the ocean floor. The sector’s…