After decades in the background, high-speed aviation is drawing renewed attention from investors, manufacturers, and regulators. The convergence of global economic pressures, advanced materials science, and digital engineering is reshaping what’s possible for commercial and cargo at high flight speeds. While Concorde proved the allure of supersonic travel, it also revealed the technical,  operational and economic constraints that grounded the aircraft in 2003. Now, the next generation of aerospace innovators is targeting more sustainable, economically viable, and mission-flexible platforms.

After decades of false starts, high-speed aviation is moving closer to a commercially viable comeback — this time driven not by prestige or Cold War competition, but by structural shifts in global commerce, advances in propulsion and materials, and new approaches to financing large-scale aerospace programs.

The 2025 ISG Provider Lens Private/Hybrid Cloud — Data Center Services report for the U.S. Public Sector finds that state, local and educational (SLED) organizations are focusing their technology investments on modernization, cybersecurity and hybrid clouds. The growth of the SLED IT market is slowing due to limited resources and recent changes in the federal government. Despite these hurdles, 90 percent of SLED agencies are expected to adopt hybrid cloud models.

According to an IDC Market Forecast titled Asia/Pacific Whole Cloud Services Forecast, 202 5 –202 8, the Asia/Pacific whole cloud spending is forecasted to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.2% and reach US$471.2 billion by 2028. Asia/Pacific whole cloud spending grew at a year-over-year (YoY) rate of 34.6% in 2024, and IDC expects the market to grow at 23.4% in 2025, as cloud-related spending continues to accelerate.

AI agents and AI-ready data are the two fastest advancing technologies on the 2025 Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. These technologies are experiencing heightened interest this year, accompanied by ambitious projections and speculative promises, placing them at the Peak of Inflated Expectations.

The 2025 ISG Provider Lens Private/Hybrid Cloud — Data Center Services report for the U.K. finds an upward trend in the adoption of hybrid and multicloud infrastructure models, with significant growth anticipated within the next three years. Performance, data sovereignty, security and regulatory pressures are the primary drivers of this growth. Hybrid cloud is now the preferred model for many U.K. enterprises, because it lets organizations align workloads with appropriate environments and improve data protection.

Worldwide tablet shipments grew 13.1% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2025 (2Q25), totaling 38.3 million units, according to data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. Growth continued from the first quarter with product refreshes, replacement cycles, active education projects and subsidies in China driving the shipment volume. Growth continued from the first quarter with product refreshes, replacement cycles, active education projects and subsidies in China driving the shipment volume.

Asia Pacific’s spending on IT and business services slowed in the second quarter as enterprises remained cautious in the face of uncertain macro conditions, according to the latest state-of-the-industry report from Information Services Group (ISG), a global AI-centered technology research and advisory firm.

As the structure of work evolves and more Americans turn to small businesses and self-employment, traditional models of retirement planning are being reimagined. The 401(k), once the domain of large enterprises and well-staffed HR departments, is now becoming accessible to the long tail of the economy—thanks to technology, fiduciary automation, and cloud-first service models.

Cloud providers are investing heavily in AI infrastructure and capabilities to become leaders in the rapidly evolving AI-optimized IaaS market. They expect that AI will become a much larger revenue contributor in the future, even though it currently remains a relatively small slice of their overall revenue within the IaaS space,” said Singh.

In an economy where 33 million U.S. businesses operate outside the Fortune 1000, the traditional retirement system remains stubbornly tilted toward scale. While large enterprises have long enjoyed structured 401(k) programs and institutional-grade investment options, most small employers—and the vast population of self-employed professionals—continue to be underserved.

The 2025 ISG Provider Lens Private/Hybrid Cloud — Data Center Services report for the U.S. finds that the rapid adoption of technologies such as generative AI and large language models (LLMs) has created unprecedented demand for data processing and storage, making data centers even more critical for enterprise operations. Service providers are helping organizations address many data center challenges, especially the need for scalability, high-speed connectivity and regulatory compliance.

The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing is redefining the way government agencies deliver services to their constituents. Over the past decade, cloud adoption has given public sector organizations the scalability, flexibility, and resilience needed to modernize systems and move critical functions online. But the rapid evolution of AI — particularly large language models and generative capabilities — is opening a new frontier in how services are designed, delivered, and experienced.

GenAI continues to transform the industry by amplifying productivity, democratising advanced analytics, and driving deeper automation across the technology stack. It is also unlocking new revenue streams for security vendors as they roll out ‘AI-native’ upgrades that breathe new life into some mature security segments. Banks and IT/ITeS are leading the way, and are already running AI copilots inside their security operations centres. GenAI drives operational efficiency and reinforces strategic resilience for Asia/Pacific organizations.

Federal/national, state and local governments are entering a pivotal stage in their modernization journeys as the convergence of artificial intelligence and cloud computing begins to alter how public services are designed, delivered and experienced.

The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) threat landscape is undergoing a radical transformation. No longer the domain of high-cost, high-complexity adversaries, the ability to launch sophisticated and disruptive DDoS campaigns has been democratized by artificial intelligence (AI). These capabilities are no longer limited to nation-states or cybercrime syndicates.

The rise of artificial intelligence is transforming the nature of distributed denial‑of‑service (DDoS) attacks, creating a new level of urgency for mid‑market manufacturers and industrial operators to strengthen their cyber defenses. According to Michael Honeycutt, who leads product marketing at Corero Network Security, the latest wave of AI‑assisted DDoS activity is faster, more adaptive, and more accessible to would-be attackers than ever before.

U.K. enterprises are modernizing networks to optimize costs, strengthen supply chain resilience and operate more efficiently in a highly uncertain macroeconomic environment. They are investing in software-defined wide area networks, secure access service edge and 5G to ensure secure, adaptable and scalable network connections. Simultaneously, IT teams are enhancing collaboration tools and digital workplaces to facilitate real-time data access for increasingly remote distributed teams.

Gartner defines Earth intelligence as the application of AI to Earth observation data to deliver solutions specific to industries and business functions. It encompasses gathering and providing Earth observation data, fit-for-purpose transforming it, and then using it to produce actionable insights with domain-specific AI models, tools and applications.

The information technology sector led AI investment activity in Asia Pacific in 2024, according to IDC, with the majority of deals targeting cloud computing, cybersecurity, SaaS platforms, data analytics, and machine learning. Healthcare followed as a fast-rising sector, driven by breakthroughs in diagnostics, drug discovery, and personalized treatment. Regionally, China, South Korea, and Japan attracted the most AI capital, while India stood out for its software-driven, scalable AI innovation