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Morning Edition · Thursday, October 22, 2026Published at 2:23 AM EDT · New York
Google Projects Southeast Asia's Digital Economy at $368 Billion in 2026 and Credits AI Adoption
The lab-published forecast of $1 trillion by 2035 follows Anthropic's own scenarios, which put the US economy between 1.6 and 32.4 percent above a no-AI baseline by 2030.
Google's annual e-Conomy SEA report projects that Southeast Asia's digital economy will reach $368 billion in 2026 and $1 trillion by 2035, with widespread AI adoption as the main driver. The previous edition, released in November 2025, put…
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Frontier Labs Publish the Macro Case for Their Own Technology
AI labs increasingly publish formal macroeconomic scenarios — GDP paths, labor-share trajectories, displacement estimates — that become reference inputs to fiscal and regulatory debate, so expect recurring lab-authored economic modeling, contested replication by academic and official forecasters, and policy anchored on numbers the vendors themselves produced.
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