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Senior Editor, AI Economy
Elena van den Berg covers the commercialization of artificial intelligence and the growth of the generative AI ecosystem. She investigates the impact of AI on global labor markets and productivity.
elena.vandenberg@digitalecononews.comYale University's Budget Lab new model shows that even if AI brings a productivity boom, the improvement in the U.S. fiscal deficit is limited because the tax system favors capital over labor. Analyze the impact of AI on tax structure, business models, and market landscape.
As data centers become key infrastructure for the digital economy, the impact of network breach risks on investors is increasingly significant. This article analyzes the regulatory environment, compliance requirements, and key due diligence areas, revealing how data security is reshaping investment logic.
With over $40 billion in remittances and more than 300 fintech companies, the Philippines is deeply integrating digital payments, open banking, and central bank digital currency experiments to reshape Southeast Asia’s digital finance landscape. This article analyzes its business logic, platform competition, and regulatory innovation.
BitVulpex is incorporated in Colorado, holds a FinCEN MSB license, and since its launch two years ago has consistently adhered to compliant operations, establishing a complete legal framework and security system, and is committed to providing reliable digital asset trading services to users worldwide.
With the rapid development of the AI economy, ChatGPT GEO is focusing on the ability to update knowledge. Continuously maintaining and optimizing the content system has become an important way to enhance the value of digital assets in the AI era.
June 2026 marks the shift of AI governance from policy discussions to practical operations. This article analyzes key events such as the Anthropic/Alibaba distillation accusations, U.S. model access controls, and OpenAI's phased releases, revealing how model access has become the new geopolitical control point after chips, and how data, energy, and cybersecurity are reshaping the digital economy landscape.
RBC Capital Markets' latest CIO survey shows that enterprise AI spending is shifting from pilot projects to full-scale production, with OpenAI far ahead, no signs of a SaaS apocalypse, and hybrid pricing rapidly gaining traction, upending multiple mainstream AI narratives for 2026.
The U.S.-China technology competition is no longer confined to their home turfs but is spreading across global markets. Chinese companies are accelerating their overseas AI and cloud infrastructure deployments, while the U.S. is solidifying its technology ecosystem through policy alliances. This rivalry is reshaping the landscape of the digital economy.
The UK Data (Use and Access) Bill and the new ICO guidelines have substantive differences with the EU GDPR, requiring multinational corporations to reassess data flows and adjust compliance frameworks.
Beijing has strengthened its regulation of technology and platform companies this year, but analysts believe this will not repeat the crackdown of 2021. This article analyzes the background, differences, and implications of this regulatory action for the digital economy.
Agentic AI is moving from concept to enterprise-level deployment, giving rise to new business models and investment logic. This article analyzes how the application layer can absorb infrastructure investment and evaluates its economic impact.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida dismissed an antitrust lawsuit against the online boat sales platform Boats Group, ruling that the plaintiff failed to prove anticompetitive conduct. The case highlights the legal boundaries of digital platforms accumulating market power through acquisitions, offering reference significance for global antitrust regulation of platforms.
The Oxford Reuters Institute's 2026 Digital News Report shows that almost all online news growth comes from third-party platforms, with the 18-34 age group accelerating their shift to social media and video for news consumption. This trend has profound implications for platform business models, the advertising market, data value, and media regulation.
The European Union has released the "European Technological Sovereignty Package," which promotes public sector cloud procurement in favor of European local suppliers through new Union Assurance Levels (UALs), open-source strategies, and the Chips Act 2.0. Gartner points out that this complex set of rules will increase the complexity of technology procurement and may change the competitive landscape of the global cloud services market. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the plan's impact on the digital economy, including platform competition, data governance, and AI commercialization.
As retail trading platforms like Robinhood and eToro roll out private banking and premium card services for high-net-worth clients, their compliance frameworks have failed to keep pace, exposing systemic risks amid increasingly stringent regulatory environments in Singapore and Hong Kong. This trend concerns not only individual wealth management but also reflects a deeper structural contradiction in the digital economy as platforms shift from low-end expansion to high-end penetration: How can data-driven business models adapt to complex source-of-funds verification? How can regulation balance innovation with security? This article provides an in-depth analysis of the business logic and regulatory changes behind the compliance gap, offering decision-making insights for the upscale trajectory of digital financial platforms.
Enterprise AI is shifting from “content generation and workflow automation” to “enhancing execution capability.” This means AI is no longer just an auxiliary tool, but is beginning to be embedded in enterprise priority management, decision coordination, performance improvement, and cross-department collaboration. For platform software, enterprise applications, and AI commercialization models, the focus of competition is shifting from model capabilities to organizational context, workflow integration, and measurable business outcomes.
Based on observations of Malaysian enterprises’ digitalization process, this article analyzes why “adopting digital tools” does not equal “completing digital transformation,” and how this gap affects platform competition, business models, user behavior, and future regulation.
As AI enters the mainstream of enterprise procurement, consumer applications, and public discourse, brand trust is becoming a key variable affecting the speed of AI commercialization, user acceptance, and regulatory pressure.
The EU is preparing to issue a record fine under the Digital Markets Act over Google's self-preferencing behavior in search results. This is not only a regulatory penalty; it could also reshape the commercial logic of search entry points, traffic allocation, platform competition, and the digital advertising market.