https://www.scmp.com/rss/521783/feed The latest news and top stories on Boston Consulting Group. A leading global management consulting firm, Boston, Massachusetts-based Boston Consulting Group (BCG) specialises in corporate strategy, digital transformation, operations, and sustainability. They primarily serve diverse clients across private, public, and non-profit sectors worldwide, known for developing the influential "growth-share matrix" and consistently ranking among top-tier firms. Their overall business focus is on unlocking... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Heavy users of artificial intelligence have reported being overwhelmed by trying to keep up with and on top of the technology designed to make their lives easier. Too many lines of code to analyse, armies of AI assistants to wrangle and lengthy prompts to draft are among the laments by hard-core AI adopters. Consultants at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have dubbed the phenomenon “AI brain fry”, a state of mental exhaustion stemming “from the excessive use or supervision of artificial... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3348344/heavy-ai-users-report-mental-burnout-babysitting-models?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3348344/heavy-ai-users-report-mental-burnout-babysitting-models?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:22:07 +0000 Aileen Chuang Aileen Chuang This Lunar New Year, Hongkongers can gift friends and family digital gold tokens, a new way of blending the city’s tradition of giving gold for good wishes with the convenience of blockchain technology. HSBC added this new transfer feature earlier this month to its retail gold token, which represents fractional ownership of physical gold stored in a secure vault and is the only retail-focused gold token approved by Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission. The bank’s enhancement to its gold... https://www.scmp.com/business/cryptocurrency/article/3343695/what-tokenised-gold-and-why-are-financial-institutions-and-investors-looking-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/cryptocurrency/article/3343695/what-tokenised-gold-and-why-are-financial-institutions-and-investors-looking-it?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:00:17 +0000 Biman Mukherji Biman Mukherji When Indian engineer Meetesh Bhatt first began tinkering with artificial intelligence during his college years in Pune, the technology was little more than an academic curiosity. Back then, he could scarcely imagine that one day it would transform his family’s small property business. But a few years later, the 28-year-old is now using AI to shake up the Indian real estate sector. “As a millennial, it excites me,” he told This Week in Asia, describing how the technology had helped the firm... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3328569/indias-ai-awakening-tech-powerhouse-races-reinvent-itself?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3328569/indias-ai-awakening-tech-powerhouse-races-reinvent-itself?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:09 +0000 Tom Hussain Tom Hussain Nearly two years after Hamas militants stormed southern Israel, the war in Gaza has entered a darker, deadlier phase. The territory now faces a reckoning its residents describe as annihilation. Israel’s latest military campaign in Gaza and its West Bank annexation plans have left observers warning that the age-old Palestinian presence across both could soon be erased. On Wednesday, Israel’s government unveiled plans to annex 82 per cent of the occupied West Bank. The escalation comes despite... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3324541/israels-annexation-plans-fuel-fears-final-solution-palestinians?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3324541/israels-annexation-plans-fuel-fears-final-solution-palestinians?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Sep 2025 08:00:24 +0000 Anthony Rowley Anthony Rowley The time has come to cease speculating over whether we are due for another stock market crash – it’s almost certain that we are. Instead, we should give serious thought to the need for fundamental change in the way savings are collected and invested in crash-prone market economies. Where does safety lie? The answer to this excellent question is that the only way to avoid another systemic financial crisis – in equity markets especially – is through systemic reforms. There is something almost... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3319463/economies-are-left-looking-safety-animal-spirits-run-wild?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3319463/economies-are-left-looking-safety-animal-spirits-run-wild?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 26 Jul 2025 21:30:07 +0000 Anthony Rowley Anthony Rowley All Quiet on the Western Front was the title of the classic novel about the first world war, written by Erich Maria Remarque. To me, the book pretty closely describes the current situation in Western financial markets. But is it now, as it was then, a case of the calm before the storm? For the answer, we can turn to the work of another writer, William Butler Yeats. In his poem, The Second Coming, he penned the lines, “Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3318544/things-fall-apart-world-why-arent-investors-worried?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3318544/things-fall-apart-world-why-arent-investors-worried?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 19 Jul 2025 08:30:08 +0000 Alex Lo Alex Lo China has been accused of doing many nefarious things in the United States, but deliberately spreading antisemitism? That’s the claim made by Democrat Congressman Jared Moskowitz in an official hearing. You have to admit facts-free China criticism in the US gets more inventive by the day. Beijing has been criticised for allowing antisemitic content without online censorship within China, and TikTok has been accused – the big reason it faces being banned – of platforming antisemitic criticism of... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3317146/us-politician-claims-china-spreading-antisemitism-really?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3317146/us-politician-claims-china-spreading-antisemitism-really?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 06 Jul 2025 13:00:14 +0000