Bangladesh, Oct. 25 -- Ask ChatGPT or Gemini for 50 startup ideas for Bangladesh and the list arrives in seconds, which feels like magic until you realise thousands of young founders from Mirpur to Moulvibazar are typing the same prompt and getting almost the same answers. The blank page has given way to abundance, and abundance raises a harder question: if a machine can brainstorm the idea, research the market and write most of the code, what is left for the founder to do?Bangladesh Economic Report

The question matters more here than almost anywhere, because AI companies drew about 74 per cent of a record US$ 510 billion raised worldwide in the first half of 2026, as this newspaper has reported, while Bangladeshi startups raised just US...