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In his first interview on the job, Abdulsalam Haykal explains how he plans to rebuild the country’s shattered digital infrastructure — and why he came back after years in exile. | Continue reading
In her new book, Every Screen on the Planet: The War Over TikTok, journalist Emily Baker-White charts the Chinese app’s rise to becoming a global juggernaut. Here is an excerpt on the company’s courtship of the Gulf nations ahead of a deal on its U.S. operations. | Continue reading
Big figures floated by Chile, and tech giants promise economy-wide impact, as permits show fewer onsite jobs after construction. | Continue reading
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China, the U.S., and Russia dominate space launches. Can alternatives emerge? | Continue reading
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The jury is out on whether India’s policies to aid the growth of its domestic EV industries are anti-China. | Continue reading
Ulangizi AI combines ChatGPT’s power with traditional know-how and government data to help crops — and families — flourish. | Continue reading
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Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan’s convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs. | Continue reading
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In his new book, The Web Beneath the Waves, writer Samanth Subramanian examines big tech’s role in subsea cables and growing geopolitical tensions around them. Below is an excerpt on the threats that Taiwan faces from China. | Continue reading
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months after a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education. | Continue reading
Using Google’s Flood Hub, nonprofit trial program sends early warning and unconditional cash to workers. | Continue reading
Immigration restrictions can accelerate the flight of top talent, threatening the strategy that it is better to have the brightest minds working for U.S. companies. | Continue reading
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30,000 Chinese workers travel thousands of miles to remote islands in Eastern Indonesia to process nickel — and put their lives at risk on the frontier of the green energy transition. | Continue reading
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Cheap, accessible, and friendly AI tools can augment scarce professional help, but there are risks to overreliance on the technology. | Continue reading
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UAE has secured massive computing power. Its state-backed flagship university is now on the prowl for talent. | Continue reading
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