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
The U.S. is impaired by a lack of supportive policy and subsidies, the unavailability of affordable Chinese models, and a preference for big cars. | Continue reading
G42 will deploy U.S.-designed supercomputers in India, offering a new model for governments that want to own their AI hardware. | Continue reading
The encyclical provides an ethical and moral framework for AI, but one that is steeped in Catholicism and ignores the faiths and practices of a majority of the world’s population. | Continue reading
Foreign visitors are flocking to China’s factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough. | Continue reading
As firms find ROI elusive, India’s tech giants are betting they can fill the AI “deployment gap” for U.S. clients, before automation eats their own back-office business. | Continue reading
A widening gap in agent quality is creating a two-tier system where well-resourced firms scale infinitely while small players are trapped by high-friction, "low-trust" tools. | Continue reading
Join Jules Polonetsky, Chief Executive Officer, Future of Privacy Forum, in conversation with Itika Sharma Punit, Deputy Editor, Rest of World on April 17, 2026 | Continue reading
The Samsung labor showdown in South Korea reflects global concerns about who benefits from the AI industry, and how the wealth being created should be shared. | Continue reading
Despite geopolitical tensions, Chinese and American AI industries remain intertwined through research networks, collaboration, and a shared cultural identity. | Continue reading
The continent's biggest tech economies want to own their AI future. The infrastructure they need still belongs to Big Tech. | Continue reading
More oil revenue means deeper pockets for the UAE’s AI investment funds, and more gas means more electricity for its data centers. | Continue reading
The heads of Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia regard Chinese companies as peers, not enemies, unlike most other Silicon Valley founders. | Continue reading
For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives. | Continue reading
A decade after U.S. venture capital firms fueled India’s startup boom, local investors are now dominating deals. | Continue reading
Future of Privacy Forum CEO Jules Polonetsky says protecting minors online requires more than just restrictions and parental controls. | Continue reading
U.S.-China summit to likely cover AI rivalry, chip exports, supply chain security, and the EV trade as leaders navigate intensifying geopolitical tensions. | Continue reading
Big Tech’s reliance on TSMC makes the China-Taiwan dispute the world’s most dangerous geopolitical flashpoint, says writer Eyck Freymann ahead of this week’s Xi-Trump meeting in Beijing. | Continue reading
Chinese-born tech workers have fueled Silicon Valley for decades. In the AI era, they're superstars. | Continue reading
Recalling my visit to Thunder Tiger, a Taiwanese company building “non-China” drones for the U.S. military. | Continue reading
From the Trump administration’s “formatting errors” to South Africa’s historic policy withdrawal, AI confabulation is infiltrating official documents. | Continue reading
By banning Chinese software, the U.S. risks isolating its automakers from the integrated systems, standards, and partnerships shaping the global electric vehicle market. | Continue reading
Restricted access to powerful defensive AI tools like Anthropic’s Mythos leaves some companies, central banks, and nations more vulnerable than others. | Continue reading
The American phonemaker's Indian arm has named X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Google, and Meta in a lawsuit asking to take down existing and future “defamatory” content. | Continue reading
As global sales climb, the reasons people buy records diverge sharply across cultures. | Continue reading
U.S. hyperscalers secure "dark fiber" capacity along Iraqi land route to reduce latency and provide a backup to vulnerable subsea cables. | Continue reading
Washington is trying to use the Lobito Railway in Congo to break China’s hold on critical metals in Africa, writes Nicholas Niarchos in his new book, The Elements of Power. | Continue reading
A massive data breach at South Korea’s biggest online retailer, which is registered and listed in the U.S., has both countries claiming the right to act. | Continue reading
Alibaba reduced its head count by a third in 2025, while Baidu’s workforce declined nearly 7%. “There’s constant churn,” a Chinese tech worker said. | Continue reading
A solo entrepreneur is paying a quarter of his salary to let AI agents run his side-hustle app. He recently realized his "employees" have been keeping secrets. | Continue reading