A Sam Altman-backed technology that many governments rejected is finding traction in the American corporate world. On April 17, World, a project designed to distinguish humans from bots using biometrics,...
A Molotov cocktail-type device was flung at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. Days earlier, more than a dozen shots were fired at...
The pandemic’s biggest bet on online learning has gone bust. Global edtech investment peaked at $16.7 billion in 2021, fueled by lockdowns that kept millions of children out of classrooms....
Artificial intelligence is reshaping modern warfare. During the recent U.S.-Israel war on Iran, AI was used to identify and strike targets, accelerate the speed of attacks, and get weaponry recommendations....
In the decades-long pursuit of solving social problems using technology, artificial intelligence is the newest hammer. From education and employment to agriculture, AI is increasingly presented as a solution to...
Netflix’s latest acquisition is threatening thousands of livelihoods from Los Angeles to Mumbai. On March 5, Netflix acquired InterPositive, an artificial intelligence company built by Hollywood actor Ben Affleck, for...
On a recent Saturday evening, a line of motorcycles stretched from a gas station in Dhaka. The queue snaked along the road for kilometers, its end out of sight. In...
Motorcycles and private cars line up for hours at a filling station in the Tejgaon Trust area of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on [Month Day, Year], as motorists attempt to purchase limited fuel supplies. Despite government assurances of a stable supply, many fuel stations remain closed for extended periods due to insufficient deliveries from depots, resulting in long queues and public inconvenience. (Photo by Sony Ramani/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
I’m sure my family in Mumbai is a lot like yours: three old smartphones sit unused in a hidden ziplock bag. My mom is scouring the study. “There was another...
This article was adapted from our latest investigation, produced in partnership with Type Investigations: A Mexican surveillance giant you’ve never heard of is now watching the U.S. border. Grupo Seguritech...
Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, October 8, 2025:
Staff monitor screens at the C7 command center for the Department of Public Security for the state of Chihuahua in Ciudad Juarez on Wednesday, October 14, 2025. Photo by Adriana Zehbrauskas for Rest of World
Hardly anyone would recognize Fabio Azevedo if they passed him on a street in São Paulo. When he begins to speak, however, everyone knows who he is: the voice of...
RedNote, one of China’s most popular social platforms, is trying to grow its social media and e-commerce businesses in the U.S. by hiring staff, hosting promotional events in universities, and...
India is aggressively courting U.S. big tech to set up data centers in the country. But this push is colliding with a very different reality on the ground. In February,...
The $2 billion Meta deal was supposed to be a crowning moment for Chinese AI startup Manus, but it’s quickly become a sharp warning. For Chinese founders, the message is...
The U.S.-Israel war on Iran may be creating a narrow opening for Chinese tech companies in the Gulf. On March 16, China’s Huawei Cloud posted a message on X highlighting...
When scientist Catherine Nakalembe set out to map crop types in western Kenya, she had plenty of data from satellite images, but couldn’t use artificial intelligence to analyze it because...
China’s electric-vehicle makers are going global to avoid going under. A price war at home and shrinking government support have thrown the industry into flux, with analysts predicting only 15...
On February 4, the $300 billion Indian IT sector faced a moment of reckoning. The country’s benchmark IT stocks index slumped nearly 6%, reacting to Anthropic’s release of its Claude...
Chinese artificial-intelligence titans are gearing up for an intense marketing blitz in the run-up to the Lunar New Year, dishing out digital “red envelopes” filled with cash, giving away bubble...
Want to bet on whether the U.S. will attack Iran? An increasing number of people are using Polymarket and similar online prediction markets to gamble on war and other geopolitical...
While Silicon Valley spent 2025 polishing its marketing decks for the humanoid future, China was busy shipping the robots. Nearly 90% of all humanoid robots sold globally in 2025 were...
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