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What to read: A summer book list

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Nick Srnicek details the geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence, and how a handful of big tech companies, and the U.S. and China, are jostling to control its development. Their actions...

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The Mexican security company with a $1.27 billion surveillance empire

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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...

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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
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Is a billion dollars still cool?

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In the 2010 film “The Social Network,” early Facebook employees discuss the money-making potential of their new site. “A million dollars isn’t cool,” someone says to Mark Zuckerberg (played by...

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The year in charts

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We at Rest of World love a good chart. So much so that this year we launched Charts, a page dedicated to preserving all the original charts we put into...

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Innovative ways the world used AI in 2025

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2025 was yet another transformative year in the artificial intelligence boom. ChatGPT was the fifth most-visited website in the world, tech companies poured hundreds of millions into refining their models,...

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Governments welcomed data centers. Now they’re grappling with the fallout

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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....

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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.
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ChatGPT turns 3

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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...

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How a movement against corruption on Nepali social media triggered unrest and death

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Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has resigned following two days of protests against rampant corruption and inequality, exacerbated by the government’s recent decision to ban some social media platforms...

Demonstrators try to break through police barricades during a protest against corruption and the government's decision to block several social media platforms, in Kathmandu, Nepal, September 8, 2025. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
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Tracking the global fallout of Trump’s escalating trade war

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Update: As of April 9 at 2PM ET, President Trump has announced that the tariffs will be paused for 90 days and replaced with a near-universal 10%. This does not...

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Workers sort out packages at a delivery company warehouse to be delivered to customers during "Singles' Day" -- the world's biggest 24-hour shopping event -- in Beijing on November 11, 2019. - Chinese consumers closed in on a new spending record November 11 during the annual "Singles' Day" frenzy, the world's biggest 24-hour shopping event, which kicked off this year with a glitzy show by US megastar Taylor Swift.
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