LinkedIn job scams have become a borderless epidemic, preying on the hopes of desperate job seekers and costing victims across the globe anywhere from a few hundred dollars to $25,000....
Countries around the world are investing millions of dollars in building data centers to meet the growing demand for generative artificial intelligence, while also storing data within their own borders....
Law student and activist Rodrigo Vallejos stands in front of Google's data center water storage tanks in the Quilicura district. The data center extracts water from the district's underground wells. Vallejos has been monitoring data centers in Santiago's metropolitan area for the past two years.
Every evening, Keshev Dutt spends a couple of hours in his home in northern India, teaching small business owners in Bangladesh and Nepal how to use artificial intelligence. Not for...
One morning in October, Luciano Galfione walked through his family’s textile factory in Buenos Aires, a cavernous warehouse where some of the more than 100 employees spin, knit, and dye...
The Covid-19-era bubble had not yet burst when the CEO sat down to write an email, hoping to woo Tiger Global. It was early on in the pandemic, and he...
On paper, Singapore is a terrible location for a data center. With average temperatures hitting 33 degrees Celsius (91 degrees Fahrenheit) and relative humidity levels of above 80%, the country...
One in five new cars sold globally is now electric. So what’s it actually like to own one? Are EV drivers constantly hunting for chargers and sweating over battery percentages,...
For the past several months, my social media feed has been flooded with people bragging about spinning up apps and websites over a weekend without any engineering help or coding...
Starlink, the satellite internet service run by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, launched in 2019. Since then, it has become available in more than 150 markets, with 8 million users. Starlink’s expansion...
In 2022, Rishabh Mishra joined a high-ranking engineering college in India’s Jabalpur with the most predictable dream in global tech: study computer science, write code, and one day make it...
Months ahead of polls in the Indian state of Bihar last month, Manish Kumar Prasad, who runs a digital marketing firm, made the rounds of offices of political parties, pitching...
In early April, U.S. President Donald Trump launched a salvo of international tariffs that rocked the global economy. Targeting countries from Mexico to Fiji, the announced tariffs led to a...
The world of artificial intelligence — across the U.S., China, and the regions outside these major model-developer centers, infrastructure hubs, deployment ecosystems, and differing governance approaches — has undergone seismic...
In recent months, there has been frenzied debate about whether the U.S. government’s unfavorable outlook toward immigration would curtail foreign student enrollments in U.S. universities and scale back overseas talent...
Three years ago, on November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT. Hot on the heels of its viral image generator DALL-E, the Sam Altman-helmed company’s chatbot quickly attracted millions of visitors...
For Angel Xiao, a Chinese operations strategist who lives in Mexico City’s Nuevo Polanco neighborhood, it’s easy to satisfy her cravings for food that reminds her of home. That’s because...
The United Arab Emirates aims to become a global artificial intelligence powerhouse, and its latest investment is a new research lab in Silicon Valley. The state-run Mohamed bin Zayed University...
The Middle East just became the newest battlefield in the U.S.-China artificial intelligence war. The Commerce Department’s approval of 70,000 advanced AI chips to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi...
This story is built on previous Rest of World reporting from Emily Wither, Kaya Genç, and Danny Makki. A dictator falls unexpectedly. Then what? Fourteen years of a brutal civil...