For three years, Juan Vega sped across Cartagena, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, on his electric motorcycle — one of thousands of recent converts to the environment-friendly option. When he needed...
When Rahul, a gun seller from the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, first used WhatsApp to expand his customer base over a year ago, he was unsure of his...
For years, Lucía’s biggest worry as a reseller of items sold on e-commerce platform Shein was keeping a stock of unsold clothes at her home in Mexico City. Now, her...
After U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in January, some digital maps quickly made the change, at least for...
Mastercard Foundation has pulled out of a commitment to invest $100 million in a leading African venture capital firm at a time when tech startups on the continent are struggling...
Chinese firms generate staggering amounts of data daily, from ride-hailing trips to online shopping transactions. A recent policy allowed Chinese companies to record data as assets on their balance sheets,...
Nigerian entrepreneur Fara Ashiru built her fintech platform, Okra, on Amazon Web Services in 2020. She would pay AWS in dollars even as Okra earned in naira because American cloud...
With a long track record of groundbreaking research, outspoken opinions, and grand visions, Jürgen Schmidhuber is a unique figure in the artificial intelligence world — equal parts scientist and provocateur....
Turkey’s sophisticated translators are moonlighting as trainers of artificial intelligence models, even as their profession shrinks with the rise of machine translations. As the models improve, these training jobs, too,...
Last month, Darren Jason Watkins Jr., a popular American streamer, broadcast a visit to Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia’s largest city. As his stream kept glitching, Watkins Jr., known...
On a ridge above La Paz, the Bolivian Space Agency’s headquarters in Amachuma is the main control center for the nation’s Túpac Katari 1 telecommunications satellite.
While much of the world was focused on a radical proposal by the U.S. president to transform the Middle East, a group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and tech leaders gathered...
Before Dang Nhut Hao came to Taiwan, he knew nothing about semiconductors. Growing up in Dong Thap — a southern Vietnamese province on the Mekong Delta famous for its rice...
Pakistan hurtled toward its electric future in 2024. In August, Chinese EV giant BYD said it would set up its first South Asian production plant in the country. Three months...
Some Chinese Temu merchants are padding their profits by using counterfeit postage labels to trick the U.S. Postal Service into delivering packages for free. Posts on Chinese social media openly...
When do the U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods go into effect? The Donald Trump administration imposed new tariffs on China this week, with an additional 10% levy on all Chinese...
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...
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