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
"Gaitana" is the digital stand-in for two candidates who will use the platform to seek consensus from their communities on all legislative matters. | Continue reading
A new device unveiled in India shows how AI systems can run locally, support diverse languages, and reduce dependence on proprietary models. | Continue reading
In his new book, “Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India’s Lost Technological Revolution,” researcher Dwaipayan Banerjee argues that a focus on technical solutions has made the country dependent on big tech firms and failed to solve fundamental social problems. | Continue reading
The region sold itself as a safe harbor for the world’s data. Amazon’s burning data center in the UAE has upended that pitch. | Continue reading
Washington’s move to lift export controls could turn Vietnam from a chip assembly hub into a manufacturing partner — and a strategic alternative to China. | Continue reading
Scale, low-cost talent, and in-house manufacturing account for most of BYD’s cost gap with Tesla. | Continue reading
A digital safe allows workers to speak up about concerns even in places without strong whistleblower protections, Mary Inman, a founding board member of Psst, said in an interview. | Continue reading
The city has signed major deals for tunnels, self-driving pods, and flying taxis — but whether unproven systems can ease real congestion remains an open question. | Continue reading
Experts warn the move could shift critical infrastructure beyond national laws — deepening digital dependence for much of the developing world. | Continue reading
Data labelers for the company Appen say they have little insight about how their work is used. | Continue reading
Washington to send volunteers abroad to promote American AI models as Chinese open-weight models are proving popular. | Continue reading
As countries start enforcing new age-limit laws, platforms like Roblox use facial technology — but critics warn of privacy leaks and surveillance. | Continue reading
There is growing demand for recreating dead and absent family members for events using AI. | Continue reading
As leaders meet in New Delhi, the bigger AI question is: Who controls the stack? | Continue reading
AI companies wield enormous economic, political, and cultural power globally, with states reluctant to regulate them, potentially leading to risks and greater inequity. | Continue reading
And Indonesian creators are leading the charge. | Continue reading
Western automakers are chasing rare earth-free motors but China’s cost advantage remains difficult to crack. | Continue reading
Nearly a year after launching a nationwide crypto payment system for tourists, merchants say hardly anyone is using it — raising questions about who the experiment really serves. | Continue reading
The crypto-based prediction platform is hiring Mandarin-speaking staff and adding Lunar New Year bets, even as it remains blocked in China. | Continue reading
For reassurance, experimentation, and low-pressure decisions, AI agents can feel helpful. For bigger choices, I still trust myself more. | Continue reading
American companies are staging boxing matches with VR-controlled Chinese humanoids to enthusiastic fans. A researcher says it is just robot theater. | Continue reading
The ChatGPT maker says the Chinese firm may be distilling its models, underscoring rising tech tensions between Washington and Beijing. | Continue reading
In his new book “Silicon Elsewhere: Nairobi, Global China, and the Promise of Techno-Capital,” writer Andrea Pollio charts the growth of Chinese investment and companies in the Kenyan capital. | Continue reading
The AI Impact Summit in India, the first in a developing country, proposes an option that focuses on public good and development. But can it deliver without capitulating to Big Tech? | Continue reading
A new 21-language dataset gives African institutions ownership and control in a field long dominated by Big Tech. | Continue reading
Persistent racism and sexism in the venture capital industry are denying immigrant women founders an opportunity to participate in the AI boom. | Continue reading