Author: Naomi Chan

Global GDP is growing at 3.3% according to the IMF, the OECD pegs it at 2.9%, and the World Bank is cautiously optimistic at 2.6%. By historical standards, that’s respectable. But strip away the headline figures and what you find is an economy running on two engines that are pulling in opposite directions: artificial intelligence and trade fragmentation. One is pouring trillions into the system. The other is ripping up the wiring.That tension is the story of 2026. And if you’re running a business, it’s the one you can’t afford to ignore.The AI Gold Rush Is Real. The Payoff Isn’t…

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At 2:17 AM, somewhere in Singapore, a founder hits “Deploy.”There is no team Slack channel lighting up. No late-night engineering war room. No exhausted product manager triple-checking edge cases. Just one person, a well-trained AI stack, and a quiet confidence that what used to take 20 people can now be done by one.By morning, the product is live. By evening, it has its first paying customer.And by the end of the week, it has something far more valuable: momentum.Welcome to entrepreneurship in 2026, where the barriers to building are collapsing, and the definition of a “company” is being rewritten in…

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