At the beginning of 2026, Elon Musk captured global attention in a three-hour conversation with Peter Diamandis and Dave Blundin on the Moonshots podcast, where he laid out an ambitious vision of humanity’s future. How credible are these seemingly far-fetched predictions, and what do they mean for ordinary people?

In October 2025, Walmart announced a landmark partnership with OpenAI to bring shopping directly into ChatGPT. Through a new Instant Checkout feature, Walmart customers can browse, select, and complete purchases entirely within the ChatGPT interface, with Walmart managing fulfilment.

At the CEIBS Annual Forum 2025, recently held on the CEIBS Shanghai campus, 2013 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and member of the American National Academy of Sciences Michael Levitt shared wide-ranging perspectives on evolutionary biology, the creativity of youth, artificial intelligence, and personal development, in a keynote speech entitled “How Should Humanity Navigate the Era of Great Intelligence?

Alibaba's Amap ranking feature is latest salvo against Meituan in China's e-commerce wars.

“The most logical strategy for Canada, China, the EU and Mexico is to collude and do nothing!”

”Chinese companies' championing of open-source AI models is also important when it comes to amplifying Beijing's influence over other nations' tech infrastructure choices.”

Join us for a CEIBS Executive Forum on October 9, 2025, with Mr. Manny Maceda, Chairman of Bain & Company, who will have a fireside chat with CEIBS Associate Dean, Director of MBA Programme Zhang Lingling on the theme of Leadership Priority and the Role of AI.

The Department of Economics and Decision Science of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) invites you to attend the 3rd CEIBS Decision Sciences Symposium in Shanghai on July 15, 2025. The Department holds its annual academic symposium (with an alternating focus on economics and decision science each year) to facilitate the intellectual exchange of new ideas about economic and business challenges in China and around the world.

AI is transforming the rules of strategy and competition, not just as a tool for efficiency, but as a groundbreaking force reshaping how organisations design and implement strategy.