1. (PDF) McKinsey Global Institute의 차세대 유망 Big Arena 산업과 경쟁 보고서미래 경제 성장을 주도하는 18개 핵심 분야: AI 서비스부터 우주 산업에 이르는 18개 미래 격전지가 일반 산업 대비 10배 빠른 매출 성장률을 기록하며 글로벌 성장을 견인 중인 상태.압도적 자본력을 보유한 Omniscalers의 등장: 연간 8,000억 달러 이상을 R&D와 설비에 투자하며 9개 이상의 산업 분야를 동시에 장악하는 거대 기업들의 영...

In the arenas, investment cycles are accelerating, value pools are shifting, and a new type of competitor is scaling across industries.The McKinsey Global Institute previously identified 18 future arenas of competition—from AI services to space—that are increasingly writing the global growth story. Indeed, over the past three years, these 18 industries have grown roughly four times as fast as...

Mai is a wrist-worn device focused on women’s health and safety.Most wearable devices can’t run AI models locally. They’re too power-hungry to run on the device itself, so data is typically sent to the cloud for processing. But new processors may change that.Ambient Scientific is among the companies betting on analog computing techniques to make battery-powered, on-device AI more feasible. T...

Speedy deployment of small, scalable units could be an alternative to hyperscale projects.A traditional data center protects the expensive hardware inside it with a “shell” constructed from steel and concrete. Constructing a data center’s shell is inexpensive compared to the cost of the hardware and infrastructure inside it, but it’s not trivial. It takes time for engineers to consider pote...

Spending money to make money is taking on a whole new meaning in the artificial-intelligence world. Plus, Anthropic seeks more business users. The public is already familiar with the exorbitant capital spending of the world’s largest tech companies as they race to build up their AI capabilities. But the two companies that compel much of that investment have sizable bills of their own. OpenAI a...

Stipple Bio, Inc., a private biotechnology company harnessing epitope-level precision to create targeted cancer therapies, today announced the close of a $100 million heavily oversubscribed Series A financing. The financing was co-led by RA Capital, a16z Bio+Health and Nextech Invest, and includes participation from existing investors Emerson Collective Investments (managed by Yosemite), GV (Go...

A small group of companies dominates the global arms industry, with a clear leader at the top.Lockheed Martin generated $64.7B in arms sales in 2024, the highest of any company.The top 20 defense firms brought in a combined $438.4 billion in arms revenue.14 of the top 20 companies are based in the U.S. or China.This chart, created by Iswardi Ishak using data from SIPRI, ranks the top 20 defense...

In his latest bi-monthly briefing, watches expert Robin Swithinbank examines how the war in the Middle East is weighing on growth prospects and offers a preview of the sector’s flagship annual fair, Watches & Wonders.The Swiss luxury watch industry’s hoped-for recovery is facing renewed pressure as war in the Middle East clouds growth prospects just ahead of Watches & Wonders, the sec...

Double-sided wall clocks are not new. They have existed for decades, quietly moving between public and private spaces. While many people associate them with railway stations and institutional corridors across Europe.They also made their way into homes in earlier times, often as decorative yet functional pieces in hallways or larger living spaces. Over time, however, they faded out of domestic i...