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The Economic Trend Opportunity Profiles (TOPs) series captures a structural shift in the global economy where national competitiveness is increasingly defined by control over AI capabilities, digital infrastructure, industrial capacity, and secure data ecosystems. Across AI-led productivity, smart manufacturing, digital risk, sovereign compute infr...

The Future of the United States explores the transformative trends shaping national competitiveness, economic resilience, and technological leadership through 2035. US energy policy is reinforcing fossil fuel expansion while navigating the growth of renewables, addressing increasing electricity demand from AI-intensive industries, and modernizing t...

As digital ecosystems become more decentralized, network transformation has evolved from a technical upgrade to a strategic imperative. Enterprises are investing in cloud, AI/machine learning, the internet of things, and augmented and virtual reality to enhance productivity and user experience. To unlock the full potential of these innovations, org...

The edge AI accelerator market is scaling rapidly as industries demand low-latency, privacy-aware intelligence for autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, smart cameras, robotics, and other applications. Cloud-based inference faces more limits from bandwidth, latency, and data sovereignty concerns, creating a strong pull for on-device AI proces...