As Arizona’s economic fortunes have become increasingly tied to TSMC and its chip supply chain, it’s been keen to diversify the roster of investors beyond tech companies. | Continue reading
Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth messaging app surged during India’s internet blackout — and the government’s response suggests a new tech battleground. | Continue reading
In an excerpt from his book “The New Divide: Power, Control & the Cost of AI,” writer Jibu Elias examines the technology’s impact on jobs. | Continue reading
Local tech groups in Kenya, India, and the U.S. are building communities and conversations around AI, but also face questions about privilege and reach. | Continue reading
Low-cost Chinese open-weight models are splitting tech executives and Washington over national security and competitiveness. | Continue reading
Delivery platforms use sophisticated weather algorithms to profit from storm demand, while shifting all the physical risk onto workers trapped by pay incentives. | Continue reading
Governments can now deploy top-tier AI locally, bypassing costly U.S. cloud rentals. | Continue reading
Alibaba, ByteDance, Baidu, and Tencent guide hundreds of millions of high-school grads to optimize the high-stakes university match system. | Continue reading
Tata Motors and Mahindra topped a global ranking of battery efficiency, showing India's strength in building frugal electric cars — even as they lag on charging speed and driving range. | Continue reading
New platforms are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, creating a new marketplace for biometric identity. | Continue reading
Government ownership of AI companies may promise shared wealth, but it risks weakening oversight and accountability. | Continue reading
As the U.S. races to bypass China, the global hunger for critical minerals is financing warlords and poisoning Myanmar's borderlands. | Continue reading
Data collectives and cooperatives, which let creators control the collection and distribution of their data, are emerging as preferred alternatives to big tech companies. | Continue reading
As Apple, Thinking Machines, and developers worldwide embrace Chinese AI models such as Kimi K3, U.S. policymakers are struggling to protect the AI lead. | Continue reading
As demand for elite AI engineers outpaces supply, companies are recruiting teenagers through camps, research programs, and guaranteed job pipelines. | Continue reading
AI is helping solo developers thrive in Turkey’s gaming industry, but writers, artists, and junior programmers are being left behind. | Continue reading
As chatbots compete to forecast the tournament, an unlikely rival from a Toronto fish tank continues to outperform them. | Continue reading
Meta and other big tech companies are increasingly using AI for content moderation, but as the backlash to Muse Image shows, it cannot protect users because it does not account for consent. | Continue reading
After the earthquakes, developers and citizens used AI to build websites and apps to help locate missing persons and coordinate relief efforts amid a slow government response. | Continue reading
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are trying to diversify their AI supply chains, but geopolitical constraints and Nvidia's technological lead leave them with few viable alternatives. | Continue reading
If Meta complies or modifies its app for India, it risks creating a “slippery slope” that emboldens governments worldwide to demand changes to encrypted messaging apps. | Continue reading
AI-generated singers, children, and even virtual lovers are providing seniors with comfort and companionship. | Continue reading
U.S. hospitals are increasingly hiring Filipino nurses for remote roles to fill staffing gaps and for cost savings, but the practice may be aggravating shortages in the Philippines. | Continue reading
Cities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America must ensure AI infrastructure development benefits local communities and leads to sustainable economic growth. | Continue reading
Backed by the state, Chinese workers are using AI to deal with limited resources and drive innovation to compete with Silicon Valley. | Continue reading
Sites from Tencent, ByteDance, and Baidu set curbs like daily word limits for authors and stricter standards to combat poor-quality automated fiction. | Continue reading
A new hackathon invites developers to build offline, multilingual AI tools, challenging the idea that cutting-edge innovation belongs only to a handful of Western companies. | Continue reading
What seems like a rescue could prove to be a retreat, as Chery leads its rivals into the heart of Europe’s car industry. | Continue reading
A court struck down Donald Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee. But many foreign workers say years of shifting immigration rules have already pushed them to consider Canada, the U.K., and the Gulf. | Continue reading
The Chinese shopping app has become so popular that even a government surcharge couldn't slow demand. | Continue reading
Three charts show China’s promised overseas production hasn’t materialized — yet. | Continue reading
China has 85% of the world’s recycling capacity and a mandate to shred old packs. The U.S. has another plan: use them to save the power grid first. | Continue reading
Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, broadcasters, and the betting industry. | Continue reading
Universities are dropping programs in translation and foreign languages while adding degrees in embodied intelligence, AI, and robotics. | Continue reading
China's consumer-tech brands keep gaining ground. | Continue reading
A proposed undersea cable from Chile to Hong Kong promised to connect South America directly to Asia. Instead, it became a test of how far the U.S. will go to curb Chinese telecom ambitions. | Continue reading
Developers say DeepSeek is good enough for a fraction of the cost. “You don’t need God to write your email.” | Continue reading
More than half of Spotify listening is now in non-English languages as the company expands across Africa, Asia, and Latin America with local artists, pricing, and payment systems. | Continue reading
Former Hugging Face executive Tiezhen Wang explains how China's open-source strategy is reshaping the AI race. | Continue reading
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are funding America's AI boom — and getting data centers in return. | Continue reading
A Chinese state-backed satellite company is signing the partners and governments Starlink has pushed aside, days before SpaceX’s record listing. | Continue reading
In her new book “Bharat Bluff: Inside the Cons of India’s Internet Revolution,” writer Soumya Gupta explores how fraudsters are exploiting the trust people place in big tech platforms like Google, Facebook and WhatsApp. | Continue reading
At a Rest of World event during New York Tech Week, we explored the challenges and possible solutions to the dominance of American and Chinese AI companies. | Continue reading
Canada and the EU opened their doors to Chinese electric cars this year while the U.S. watched from behind a tariff wall. | Continue reading
India’s elite tech talent is starting to see big tech jobs in a new light. | Continue reading
Rest of World recommends eight books that cover the history of resistance to tech, our relationship with AI companions, the danger of our dependence on Taiwan chips, and more. | Continue reading
New AI infrastructure is emerging in India, Brazil, the UAE and Africa, where local stacks are designed to get around compute scarcity. | Continue reading
Localized, low-cost data harvested in homes and factories gives China a scaling edge over the research-heavy and outsourced U.S. approach. | Continue reading