Purpose-designed AI agents with a focus on safety can provide critical assistance to vulnerable populations. | Continue reading
The biometric ID project has been halted and investigated in multiple countries, but it recently partnered with Tinder, Zoom and Docusign to verify users. | Continue reading
New research shows Americans are far less excited about AI — and far less trusting of regulators — than their counterparts across Asia. | Continue reading
Venture capital is moving away from K-12 edtech worldwide as investors prioritize AI tools and workforce training with clearer returns. | Continue reading
Rachel Adams warns AI-generated content sabotages civilian safety in conflict zones, and calls out global inequities and the role of Western tech powerhouses. | Continue reading
Even sophisticated AI systems need human support and institutional capacity to succeed. | Continue reading
A startup founded by Ben Affleck, recently acquired by Netflix, could automate the frame-by-frame work done by artists across India, South Korea, and Latin America. | Continue reading
The country gets 95% of its fuel from abroad. | Continue reading
As demand for AI hardware surges, much of the resulting waste will end up in non-Western countries. | Continue reading
Founded as a home alarm business in 1995, Grupo Seguritech now operates 188 command centers across Mexico and has at least 31 subsidiaries. Now it's coming to the U.S. | Continue reading
Voice AI tools are quickly replacing voice-over and dubbing artists, raising concerns not only about jobs but also loss of cultural relevance in non-English-speaking nations. | Continue reading
China's Xiaohongshu has an uphill climb in a saturated market as it hires in the U.S. and launches an e-commerce portal for overseas markets. | Continue reading
Google and Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar projects under construction in India are facing backlash from farmers, while the government offers huge tax relief to foreign companies setting up data centers. | Continue reading
The Meta-Manus deal holds lessons for U.S. investors and Chinese founders alike. | Continue reading
Strikes on U.S. data centers highlight the risks of concentration and the growing role of geopolitics in cloud competition. | Continue reading
Grupo Seguritech quietly built a $1.27 billion surveillance empire. Now it's expanding into the U.S. and across Latin America. | Continue reading
Photographers all over the world submitted images showcasing unique views of technology. | Continue reading
The new book "LeanSpark" examines frugal innovation in India, including how startups Sarvam AI and Krutrim overcome cost and infrastructure constraints. | Continue reading
To avoid collateral damage, countries consider ditching giant server hubs for smaller, distributed ones—especially now that military and civilian data live side-by-side. | Continue reading
Quick commerce promises instant convenience, but it’s driven more by deep discounts and habit-building than real need. | Continue reading
Amid a widening global divide in AI adoption, low-cost AI models that can deliver sovereignty and efficiency with a smaller environmental footprint are gaining ground. | Continue reading
The war has led to mass GPS-jamming, forcing drivers to rely on memory, landmarks, and phone calls. | Continue reading
Tech leaders called AI a democratizing force. But it’s concentrating power and wealth in a handful of American companies. | Continue reading
A survey of workers in 60 countries found that a majority of those facing the threat of AI-driven job loss do not trust companies or governments to manage the transition fairly. | Continue reading
China’s Unitree is profitable, scaling fast, and cutting prices even as most humanoid robots remain far from mass adoption. | Continue reading
The war has blocked the only sea route for the high-grade, low-carbon aluminum EVs need. There's no quick substitute. | Continue reading
Early adopters are renting AI glasses for $6 a day for navigation, translation, and school exams. | Continue reading
Despite weeks of drone and missile attacks, expat entrepreneurs and investors are staying put — betting the city’s stability and business appeal will outlast the conflict. | Continue reading
Landmark trial “shakes Big Tech to its core”; complaint argued companies knowingly designed addictive products that exposed children to harm. | Continue reading
From Seoul to New York City, residents are fighting charging infrastructure over safety, aesthetics, and crowding. | Continue reading
Individuals and communities are resisting the demands and practices of Big Tech's AI infrastructure — such as data centers and digital labor — due to their environmental and social costs. | Continue reading
The same choke points that made the Gulf the world’s energy crossroads now threaten its role as the nerve center of the AI age. | Continue reading
My experience of the tech platforms, media content, and official messaging of the war in two cities. | Continue reading
A new study shows Chinese firms and banks are behind much of the continent’s AI-powered monitoring infrastructure. | Continue reading
Employees are rushing to learn new tools as layoffs and automation fuel widespread AI anxiety. | Continue reading
Under a national AI push, local governments are turning coworking space and data centers into AI incubators. | Continue reading
Author Thomas Dekeyser explains why modern resistance to Big Tech is a deeply sane response to a narrow vision of humanity. | Continue reading
Mobile operators and global groups are testing ultracheap 4G phones across six African countries, hoping to close the continent’s device affordability gap. | Continue reading
Big Tech’s AI tools trained on Western data often can’t recognize local crops, forests, or farming conditions without adaptation to local environments. | Continue reading
The global oil crisis triggered by the U.S.-Iran war is making Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Pakistan, and India get conservative with energy. | Continue reading
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE are financing competing data corridors through Syria, Iraq, and East Africa to bypass the two maritime choke points that threaten their digital connectivity. | Continue reading
The board says Meta should have labeled a viral AI-generated video of alleged damage in Haifa during the 2025 Israel-Iran war, urging platforms to do more to help users spot synthetic media in conflicts. | Continue reading
Scale alone won’t determine the rivalry that hinges on software, partnerships, and Tesla’s path to mass deployment. | Continue reading
For the Iranian diaspora, maintaining contact with family requires dealing with communication blackouts, constant surveillance, and the emotional roller-coaster tied to a message's delivery status. | Continue reading
From 3D-printed drones to Anthropic’s Claude, advanced technologies are making conflict more accessible and less accountable — leaving human oversight at risk. | Continue reading
As generative AI explodes on social media, the board’s slow, human-led review model faces a breaking point. | Continue reading
Tech industry’s past focus on cyberattacks and natural disasters overshadowed threats of physical attacks. | Continue reading
The U.S.-Iran conflict has closed the only two routes for data in and out of the region. | Continue reading