Earlier this week, an Indian politician urged the country’s Parliament to support homegrown alternatives to Google Maps — blaming the popular navigation app for fatal accidents. Incidents due to Google...
At the end of his internship at Nvidia in 2023, Zizheng Pan, a young artificial-intelligence researcher from China, faced a pivotal decision: stay in Silicon Valley with the world’s leading...
Karawang county, located about 90 minutes by road from Jakarta, has been a major automotive hub in Indonesia for decades, housing factories of companies like Yamaha and Toyota. Last July,...
This report is adapted from Rest of World’s recent feature “The global struggle over how to regulate AI,” written by Katie McQue, Laís Martins, Ananya Bhattacharya, and Carien du Plessis. ...
During a trip to India in 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sparked controversy when he said it was “hopeless” for a young team with less than $10 million to compete...
María Fretes, a Paraguayan social worker, had long wondered about the lives of imprisoned women in the country. Then, one day in November, many of her questions were answered by...
This report is adapted from Rest of World’s recent feature “The global struggle over how to regulate AI,” written by Katie McQue, Laís Martins, Ananya Bhattacharya, and Carien du Plessis. ...
Supporters of Bharatiya Janata party cheer during a felicitation program organised for Gujarat State Chief Minister Bhupendrabhai Patel (not pictured) in Ahmedabad on December 8, 2022. - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party won by a crushing landslide in his home state, election results showed December 8, in a strong performance ahead of a national vote due in 2024.
Filipino digital workers launched a coalition to lobby for labor and free speech protections in the workplace as artificial intelligence is deployed. The AI tools raise new risks, and the...
On Christmas Eve in 2024, a warehouse in suburban Hanoi kept pace with the festive season frenzy. Thousands of packages intended for Shopee and TikTok Shop customers were off-loaded, sorted,...
Ahead of the short-lived U.S. TikTok ban on January 19, so-called TikTok refugees flocked to popular Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu. In the U.S., the app was number one on...
In the days leading up to the January 19 deadline for TikTok, users in the U.S. scrambled to find alternatives. But instead of YouTube, X, or Instagram, the so-called TikTok...
Like last year, the majority of the entries in our 2024 photography contest captured on-the-ground realities of how technology is transforming lives in every corner of the world. We received...
A few weeks before Christmas, Amalia Bulacios found the perfect gift for her daughter. The Disney Princess backpack she wanted was around $40 on Amazon — a fourth of what...
An automated bar code reader scans packages prepared for shipping at an Amazon Fulfillment center on Cyber Monday in Robbinsville, New Jersey, US, on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. Over the past weekend, US buyers spent a record $10.9 billion online, according to data from Adobe, and the company expects consumers to splurge another $13.2 billion on Cyber Monday.
In March 2024, a Brazilian senator traveled on a commercial flight to Washington, D.C. Marcos Pontes, a 61-year-old former astronaut, had become a central figure in the effort to regulate...
In 2020, Priscila Chalán, a taxi driver in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil, ditched her gas-fueled car in favor of an electric vehicle made by Chinese company BYD. She was...
Xiaohongshu, which translates to “little red book” in Chinese, is a lifestyle e-commerce and social media platform. Think Instagram meets Tiktok: an app whose feed offers an infinite scroll of...
The field of artificial intelligence has long been dominated by the U.S. and Europe. Recently, however, AI research has become more collaborative across countries outside of the West, according to...
American high school student Venus Rios sparked a flurry of chatter when she posted this week on Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, writing in Chinese characters. “Hi Chinese netizens! I...
Twice a week at a senior care facility in Singapore, a few dozen elderly men and women with dementia gather in a large sunlit room with Dexie, a humanoid robot,...
Meta’s fact-checking partners around the world are disappointed — but not surprised — by Facebook’s move to do away with fact-checking by trained teams. In a January 7 blog post,...
FILE -- Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on online child sexual exploitation on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 31, 2024.
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