David Austin

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  • Christopher Wood, global head of equity strategy at Jefferies Hong Kong, at the Coins2Day Innovation Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Nov. 18.Asia

    Jefferies’ Chris Wood called Japan’s crash and the U.S. housing bubble. He’s now warning of an ‘AI capex arms race’

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  • Journalist and author Paul Blustein speaks at the 2025 Coins2Day Innovation Forum in Malaysia.Economy

    Only ‘catastrophic missteps’ could unseat the U.S. dollar, says author Paul Blustein: ‘It is entrenched—like it or not’

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  • Malaysia Finance Minister II YB Senator Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan speaking at the Coins2Day Innovation Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Nov. 17, 2025.Asia

    How Malaysia shrugged off Trump’s tariffs, according to its finance minister: ‘We didn’t panic’

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  • FORTUNE INNOVATION FORUM 2025, Kuala Lumpur, 17-18 November 2025Asia

    Companies and countries can stay nimble even as they navigate the ‘unexploded ordinance’ of U.S.-China competition, experts say

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  • Brainstorm AI Singapore 2025Conferences

    People, not new technologies, are the next hurdle in robotaxi adoption

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  • Brainstorm AI Singapore 2025Conferences

    Experts debate how to create a more humane AI—and save it from the ‘Silicon Valley tech bros’

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  • Brainstorm AI Singapore 2025Conferences

    DeepSeek makes it easier for Southeast Asia’s firms to get into AI, but venture investors are still adopting a wait-and-see attitude

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  • Brainstorm AI Singapore 2025Conferences

    AI agents are here, but companies are still learning how to put them to use

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  • FORTUNE Brainstorm AI Singapore 2024, at Ritz Carlton, on 30 July 2024. Photo by Graham Uden/FORTUNETech

    Cities no longer need to be rich to be smart as AI ‘levels out the playing field,’ urban experts say

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  • “Educators realized that we could leverage [generative AI] as well,” said Sonita Jeyapathy, codirector of the Center for Pro Bono & Clinical Legal Education at the National University of Singapore, at the Coins2Day Brainstorm AI Singapore conference on Wednesday.Tech

    Educators are leveraging AI to make the job of teaching easier—and make it more than a way to cheat on homework

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  • FORTUNE Brainstorm AI Singapore 2024, at Ritz Carlton, on 31 July 2024. Photo by Graham Uden/FORTUNETech

    Surviving the ‘AI winter’: Startups need to know ‘when to go into hibernation’ if they want to thrive

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  • FORTUNE Brainstorm AI Singapore 2024, at Ritz Carlton, on 30 July 2024. Photo by Graham Uden/FORTUNETech

    AI can help bridge Southeast Asia’s 1,000 languages—but the work ‘has to be done by Southeast Asians’

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