Last fall, I moved into Mark Zuckerberg’s old house. A pale blue ranch home dubbed the Facebook House, it was perched in the hills of Los Altos, an affluent enclave...
For at least the past two U.S. administrations, cutting China out of the tech supply chain has been a strategic goal in multiple industries. But the drone industry is one...
Last month, South Africa withdrew its Draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy 17 days after it was published because the document cited fake research, created by AI. The incident tarnished a...
Much of the world is adopting the electric-vehicle technology the U.S. just banned. On March 17, the U.S.banned any vehicle with Chinese software from its roads. Beginning with cars arriving...
A person demonstrates a video game on the touch screen in an Xpeng P7 electric vehicle outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Chinese electric-car startup Xpeng Inc. is set to raise $1.28 billion after guiding its U.S. initial public offering above a marketed range, people familiar with the matter said, showing strong investor interest in the sector is not abating. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Last month, Anthropic said its new artificial intelligence model, Mythos Preview, had discovered thousands of vulnerabilities in “every major operating system and web browser.” About 40 tech firms and institutions...
Motorola wants social media platforms to take down “defamatory” reviews of its devices in India. But the way it’s doing this has digital rights activists alarmed. In March, Motorola’s India...
When I took my son to Mirza Ghalib Street in Kolkata to find Bollywood soundtracks for his new turntable, I was struck by the economics of our mission. Why trade...
Major U.S. hyperscalers running data centers in the Gulf to power apps and online services for millions of users are channeling data out of the war zone through fiber-optic cables...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of Africa’s wealthiest countries even as its people are some of the world’s poorest. It is rich in cobalt, lithium and copper,...
South Korea wants to punish its biggest online retailer for a massive data leak. The U.S. is stepping in to shield Coupang, because even though it operates almost entirely in...
A general view shows the logo of South Korean online delivery service Coupang, at a building housing the headquarters of Coupang in Seoul on December 9, 2025. South Korean police raided the Seoul headquarters of e-commerce giant Coupang on December 9, over a recent data leak believed to have affected almost two-thirds of the country's population. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP via Getty Images)
I kept hearing about entrepreneurs in China running “one-person companies” with the help of artificial intelligence agents, which handle everything from coding to managing emails. How well do agents work?...
Chinese tech giants are quietly shrinking their workforce — echoing a pattern playing out in Silicon Valley. In 2025, e-commerce major Alibaba reduced its head count by 34% as it...
As rising conflict and forced displacement drive unprecedented humanitarian needs, adoption of artificial intelligence in humanitarian work has the potential to scale services for some of the most vulnerable populations...
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)